13 Minutes is a fairly low budget disaster/tornado film that focuses on an average town somewhere in the midwest, USA. It’s characters are mostly regular lower-to-middle class folk – ranchers, motel staff, salon workers – with one couple being a … Continue reading
This film almost gets there but it sags too much in the middle which kills the momentum of a good idea. The kind of high concept good idea that nearly everyone can identify with on some level. If you’ve ever … Continue reading
Skyfire is a film that will please pyromaniacs and that’s probably about it. If you come for the fire! FIRE! and those lava bombs that seem deliberately aimed and the LAVA! THE HOT LAVA! then you might get just enough … Continue reading
The Midnight Sky is an ambitious failure of a movie. I really wanted to like it; it’s the kind of movie that’s built for me. A big idea science fiction film that champions humanity and accomplishment in the face of … Continue reading
Greenland is a terrible title for a low-expectation Gerard Butler disaster movie… that turned out to be better than I (or probably anyone) expected. The flick is out now on overpriced early rental and, presumably, theatrical release. I caught it … Continue reading
Rented a very bad movie on iTunes called Radioflash. The premise and angle was interesting so I gave it a blind watch… which was a big bad mistake. So a Radioflash is another name for an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) … Continue reading
Crawl is a new creature feature with a very direct, very simple premise that has been getting very good critical reviews. Reviews are positive, I think, because the movie is well made, short and to the point, and it is … Continue reading
Checked out the Netflix Original How It Ends. This is post-apocalyptic road trip if, by post apocalypse, we mean a handful of days after. And by apocalypse, we mean something vague. Something very vague. As if the film makers couldn’t … Continue reading
Just watched 1957’s Zero Hour!, another gift from Turner Classic Movies. Zero Hour(!) is the basis of the plot and many many jokes in the greatest spoof film of all, Airplane! It’s all here… Ted Striker (same name) follows his … Continue reading
The new film The Hurricane Heist is, if nothing else, truth in advertising. It is, indeed, about a heist… during a hurricane. It’s a pretty dumb action film directed by someone who has been making pretty dumb action films for … Continue reading