Most of this Toy Story spinoff feels like a generic space adventure that someone, early on in development, glued a Toy Story connection onto in order to get folks to rush out to the the theater. In other words, no … Continue reading
Oddly, I liked the world-building and setups in the first half of this film. Seems most people hated that… whereas I was deeply disappointed with the running and the screaming in the second half (where most felt it finally limped … Continue reading
In my recent re-watch review of the original 1984 Firestarter, I said it was an hour and forty minute buildup to the arson-heavy, fireball-spewing finale. Something I doubted the new film would handle as well due to the likely use … Continue reading
Night Raiders is set in a near-future North America ravaged by a vaguely defined civil war. Our main character is a mother of a pre-teen who lives off the grid. But when the little girl is injured, they head to … Continue reading
Dual is set in the near future where human cloning is possible but mostly outlawed. Karen Gillan plays a woman who is diagnosed with something that might as well be a brain cloud… she’ll die soon enough, but she’ll feel … Continue reading
Well, Chariot’s a movie. It has a beginning, middle, and end… I think. Probably. It’s certainly abstract and weird… you might even charitably say its Lynchian. It sure is something… but I’m not convinced its anything at the same time. … Continue reading
Captain Nova is a Netflix film from the Netherlands about a near future where things have gone horribly wrong and a woman has to take her spaceship/time machine back to the past to save it. She crashes and is rescued … Continue reading
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a pretty remarkable and interesting film that has both lofty and human ambitions. I went in knowing only that it had something to do with the multiverse and that it starred Michelle Yeoh… which … Continue reading
Madelines is about a married couple working on time travel in their backyard shed. When the wife – Madeline – gets tipsy and decides on human trials, a bug in her code results in one Madeline appearing in their back … Continue reading
Even by Richard Linklater’s sometimes shaggy standards of what makes a narrative film, this movie is barely a movie. More of a memory or animated documentary about what it was like growing up in the space age of the 1960s. … Continue reading