Checked out the new Jennifer Lawrence-led spy movie Red Sparrow tonight. It’s a dull, boring movie that tries to be seductive and sexy but face-plants badly. Set in Russia during what, at first, seems like the 80s (until someone … Continue reading
Checked out a Russian superhero movie called Guardians. This is, I guess, what happens when really dumb American movies can be made with some technical competence in other countries. Congratulations world… make your own dumb movies. The film’s most … Continue reading
Jigsaw is the 8th film in the torture porn Saw franchise and the first one in seven years. I can’t say I’ve missed the series and I can’t say this new one justifies the return. It’s the same as all … Continue reading
The new movie Geostorm is an excellent way to save you some time. Say you want to see a big dumb disaster movie, a political conspiracy movie, and a space-based sci-fi film and you just don’t have the time for … Continue reading
So they went and remade the movie Flatliners… which, if you have to remake a movie, that’s a good one. The original Flatliners was a better idea than it was a film. Both movies have the same plot – medical … Continue reading
Also caught Birth of the Dragon, a new Bruce Lee story that tells the allegedly true story of his fight with Chinese shao-lin master Wang Jack Man in the early 60s, years before Lee would break out as a kung … Continue reading
And finally went to see the new Will Ferrell / Amy Poehler comedy The House. When Ferrel and Poehler’s daughter gets into college and they lose the scholarship they were relying on, they decide to open a casino (with the … Continue reading
Checked out (via streaming) the new movie The Bad Batch. This is the director’s follow-up to her critically loved skateboarding Muslim teen vampire movie from a few years A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. That was a curious and … Continue reading
A Cure for Wellness is a new psychological suspense film that is overly long, predictable, tedious, and a real waste of time. If you want an idea of what the movie is, if you saw Shutter Island, you can pretty … Continue reading
Checked out the new movie Trolls based, more-or-less, on the classic ugly toys with the big hair. More-or-less because these don’t look like the ugly trolls from the 80s and 90s (and earlier) but maybe they’ve been revamped when I … Continue reading