Love in Taipei is a Paramount+ rom-com that is so harmless that it may as well not exist. It does nothing interesting, it’s not funny, it has characters that are uninteresting, and I might as well not have watched it. … Continue reading
Jules is an odd duck of a movie. In some ways, it’s kind of adjacent to a Wes Anderson movie… but not as artsy (you’d never confuse a single frame of it with anything Anderson shoots). It is similar in … Continue reading
Compared to some other glossy Netflix spy/action flicks, Heart of Stone is pretty ok. It’s no Extraction with its minimalist plot but maximalist action but it’s also no Red Notice with its stupidity and… umm… it’s stupidity. You could do … Continue reading
I didn’t have a lot of faith (har) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter and certainly its first twenty minutes had me slumped in my seat… but the movie surprisingly pulls through to deliver a movie with real… bite … Continue reading
The amusing thing about going to see Gran Turismo – a movie about how video games can translate into real world skills – is that I was playing Jedi Survivor right before leaving the house. I suspect I’m not on … Continue reading
I don’t think I’ve experienced many movies that started out so strong and fell apart so fast and so consistently. If you were to map the movie on a linear graph, it’d make a wonderful ski slope all the way … Continue reading
I never played HQ Trivia back in the day. I was aware of it. I saw the articles and heard podcasters yammer on about it. But I don’t recall it rising and I don’t recall collapsing… it was there one … Continue reading
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is an amusing zombie comedy that would have been funnier if they cut the “Zom 100” bit from the title. Just lean into the genre conventions and call it Bucket List of the … Continue reading
Hidden Strike is a new Netflix action/comedy starring two human cartoons with very very different comic stylings. I was rooting for this flick… it really wants to entertain and certainly Jackie Chan and Joh Cena are trying. But the script … Continue reading
In my review of The Meg, I groused that it wasn’t half as fun as the marketing suggested. That they took themselves too seriously. And the first half of The Meg 2 follows in the same boat (submersible?). But then … Continue reading