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
I don’t know where Moonshot came from and I’m not sure why it ranks an HBO Max release. It feels like a Disney Channel show or a particularly average Netflix original. But, no, it earns its way onto HBO Max … Continue reading
For the longest time, I felt disconnected from this film. Alienated. I thought it felt cold and removed, emotionless like a Vulcan had directed a human drama. And I was puzzled that it has gotten so many good reviews. But … Continue reading
Project Gemini is a pretty good looking wrapper around a truly terrible gift. Good production values, good sets, good VFX can’t save a movie if the dialog is laughable and the plot nonsensical. This is terrible movie that thinks its … Continue reading