The First Purge is the fourth Purge film and is, indeed, a prequel. The Purge films are based on the idea that the government allows one night out of the year where all crime is legal. The first film wasted … Continue reading
The new film Hotel Artemis is as pulp as pulp fiction crime drama/action flicks get. It’s about a hospital for criminals in near-future Los Angeles. It stars a weird cavalcade of actors who are sometimes better than the material, sometimes … Continue reading
Went to see the new sci-fi/cyberpunk/revenge flick Upgrade last night. This is a movie that got some buzz out of SXSW but I only caught one trailer for it months ago, long enough that I’d forgotten everything. Which was great … Continue reading
So Deadpool 2 is the solid, almost-as-good sequel to the self-referential superhero comedy from a couple years ago. Ryan Reynolds is back as Ryan Reynolds playing the fourth-wall-breaking anti-hero Deadpool and its all the same stuff as before only with … Continue reading
So there’s this new horror/suspense movie called Revenge in limited release on on iTunes that has inexplicably good reviews for a movie where “rape/revenge” is a descriptor. But it is that kind of film and it does have great reviews… … Continue reading
Avengers: Infinity War is, no surprise here, the 19th film in the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s also one of the best of these films… and is pretty great, despite it risking being a bloated 2 hr 30 min mess … Continue reading
Rampage is the new Dwayne Johnson-starring giant monster movie based on a classic arcade game starring a giant gorilla, lizard, and wolf destroying cities. It should come as no surprise that the new movie is also about a giant gorilla, … Continue reading
Ready Player One is the new Steven Spielberg directed sci-fi film based on the pop-culture riddled novel from a few years ago. I read the book and went into the movie expecting certain changes of plot elements that a movie … Continue reading
Pacific Rim: Uprising is the surprised-it-got-made sequel to the original robots-punching-monsters movie Pacific Rim. I say surprising since it kind of landed with a thud in the US but was saved and became profitable in Asia. Given that movie was … Continue reading
The new Tomb Raider film released today is edging close to that final definitive video game adaptation movie that’s good without reservations. It doesn’t quite get there but it’s filmed with more competence and has better acting than almost any … Continue reading