The Girl with All the Gifts was a great novel that has been turned into a good film. Just released on streaming with a limited theatrical release, this is 50% a great film and 50% a good one – the … Continue reading
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is the 6th film in the franchise that manages to sequel bait in a movie called The Final Chapter and whose narrator claims this is the end of the story. Lies! Lies I tell you. … Continue reading
Rented a new release (also in limited theatrical run) film called Into the Forest, starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood as two sisters surviving in an America where the power seems to have gone out forever. It’s not sci-fi … Continue reading
Cell is a new digital steaming movie (probably in limited theatrical release) based on a mostly forgotten Stephen King novel from 2006. This adaptation stars John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson which is a decent cast for what amounts to … Continue reading
Checked out The 5th Wave, the new alien invasion YA movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz as a teenage survivor of an alien attack that has wiped out a lot of humanity and her struggle to survive and (sigh) ultimately figure … Continue reading
The Scorch Trials is the sequel to last year’s The Maze Runner. Maze Runner was an okish movie buoyed slightly by an interesting, mysterious premise and an inventive creature design and environment. The Scorch Trials isn’t that movie. Instead, its … Continue reading
Watched Z for Zachariah on streaming last night (it is also in very limited theatrical release). This is a movie about a girl alone in a valley that miraculously survives a nuclear war. Then a stranger shows up in a … Continue reading
There’s a new sci-fi trapped-in-a-bunker movie that’s in limited theatrical release and On Demand streaming called Air. I gave it a shot since it’s “from the producers of The Walking Dead” and stars Norman Reedus (Daryl from Walking Dead) and … Continue reading
So… rushed out to see Mad Max: Fury Road… a movie with 99% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes so had to see it before any more got spoiled. And the movie is exactly what it’s advertised as – an unadulterated … Continue reading
Caught the new direct-to-streaming (via iTunes) Australian disaster end-of-the-world drama These Final Hours… kind of like what you’d get if you crossed On the Beach with a rave full of naked women. It’s about an asteroid strike that occurs on the … Continue reading