I started watching this one fully expecting to hate it given the aggressively downward trajectory of the franchise. And at first I was as sneeringly dismissive as I was with the terrible third flick. But then… you know… this movie … Continue reading
If I were to rate The Cellar exclusively on one of it’s ideas, it’d be a stellar rave. But that idea is so subsumed by mediocre attempts at atmosphere and scares that no amount of clever inception can make this … Continue reading
Abandoned is a movie I thought I liked at first because it has a good actress at its heart and it seems to know how to present suspenseful moments. But those moments all seem to be identical and they go … Continue reading
Black Adam is an empty tiresome noisy descent into pop pow ker splat superherodom. It’s DC once again trying to jump the line and be Marvel by introducing yet another bunch of heroes and not bothering to flesh them out … Continue reading
Saloum follows a trio of mercenaries fleeing an African conflict. They hide out on a region called Saloum and quickly discover there are evil spirits about. Lots of opportunity here to tell a unique story in a unique setting… but … Continue reading
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is adapted from one of the short stories in Stephen King’s book If It Bleeds. It’s a strange choice but, also, probably the most filmable story in that book. It feels like they poured through the book … Continue reading
They/Them is a movie that can’t pick a lane and winds up swerving all over the road, running everyone into a ditch, and satisfyingly no one. I think they had a good idea… a twist on the old-fashioned summer camp … Continue reading
End of the Road starts like it’ll be a decent crime thriller then slowly devolves into a semi-decent thriller, and then falls off a cliff with laughable action scenes. It could have been something but it wound up being nothing. … Continue reading
After hovering over it a bunch of times, I finally broke down and clicked to watch this third retelling of the Thai soccer team rescue from 2018. I didn’t see a need to watch another version, but my curiosity got … Continue reading
I’m not sure why I kept watching this once I realized this Netflix musical was for and about middle schoolers. I’m not the target market but I once was a 13 year old (who didn’t break out into song randomly) … Continue reading