Checked out the new movie called Phoenix Forgotten, a flick I’d only seen a poster for so I was kind of upbeat about going in cold. And it’s yet another found footage horror movie. The story is based around the … Continue reading
So, The Fate of the Furious is the 8th movie in this series of car racing/theft/spy/whatever flicks. And like the last three or four of them, it largely abandons whatever the series started as and goes with automotive super-spy / … Continue reading
To all throw-back 80s horror fans, watched a new flick called The Void (on iTunes, limited theatrical release) which is very much inspired by flicks of that decade. Basic premise: a group of people are trapped in a hospital by … Continue reading
Checked out Going in Style, the new movie about grumpy old men who decide to rob a bank. Grumpy old men played by Alan Arkin, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Caine… so some solid pedigree and the only reason the movie … Continue reading
Netflix put up a new “show” this weekend – really three hour-long documentaries called Five Came Back. It’s about five Hollywood directors who joined the armed forces during WW2 – primarily to make films for the government (don’t call it … Continue reading
Checked out Ghost in the Shell, the new Scarlett Johansson action sci-fi flick loosely based on the original anime film (and possibly some of its spinoffs) from the mid 90s. I’m of two minds about this pic. As a stand-alone … Continue reading
To say the new Power Rangers movie is a gritty reboot of the tv series is kind of a given – since just about anything would feel like a gritty reboot of a show made for hyperactive five year olds. … Continue reading
Also saw CHiPs, a movie theoretically based on the old 70s cop show. I say theoretically because this movie is hot garbage that takes the name and the setting and then proceeds to be both a generic cop movie and … Continue reading
Life is the new sci-fi/horror film about astronauts investigating a life form brought back from Mars. Predictably, things don’t go well. Unpredictably, the movie takes itself very seriously and has a mind towards real science. Unfortunately, it doesn’t realize it’s … Continue reading
The Belko Experiment is the other new movie released this weekend – call it major hail-Mary counter-programming to Beauty and the Beast. It’s got a premise that’s devious and sick and could make for a good movie… American workers at … Continue reading