Prisoners of the Ghostland is a weird Samurai/Western action film starring Nicholas Cage. This should be a fun combination but I think the film is simply trying too hard. It has a manufactured artificial level of weirdness instead of being … Continue reading
Kate is an action film with some decent to very good action set pieces and choreography wrapped in a humdrum story with humdrum characters. I only saw life out of one character and most people will probably find her annoying. … Continue reading
Shang-Chi is the latest MCU film. It’s about a regular dude who parks cars in San Francisco with his best gal pal… only to blow his real identity as the son of a shadowy martial arts villain. Now he has … Continue reading
I can defend my rental of this turkey. It was on iTunes and it was released by Lionsgate. I figured it’d be a B movie but it might might have had something extra due to that production/release combo. Oh how … Continue reading
So the new movie The Protégé stars Maggie Q as a soulless automaton assassin who…. wait. What? She’s not an automaton? Not a robot of any kind? She’s just a regular human who isn’t burdened with emotions or personality? Huh. … Continue reading
I really kind of want to rate Sweet Girl just a little higher. It is a painfully generic and bland action movie with a hero with dubious goals who should have Child Protective Services called on him. Until it makes … Continue reading
Free Guy is kind of like taking a shopping car through movie history and picking and choosing elements from all over. Instantly I saw a little Lego Movie, Truman Show, Dark City, The Matrix, Tron and a few others. In … Continue reading
The Suicide Squad is made by the James Gunn you used to think about when you thought about James Gunn. The James Gunn before Guardians of the Galaxy… the James Gunn behind the splatter-ific alien parasites of Slither and the … Continue reading
This is an alright Liam Neeson action/thriller thing. Probably a little better produced and directed than some of them… though maybe a little less interesting overall. I think Neeson needs to take a vacation though… one that doesn’t involve kidnapping, … Continue reading
I was moderately surprised by Jungle Cruise for awhile… I was low-key enjoying the movie and, in most respects, that didn’t change too drastically. But there was just enough off or misguided that I ultimately have to ding the film … Continue reading