Rising Wolf (as it’s known in the US… or at least on streaming) is a flick about a woman trapped in a high-tech elevator of a high-rise. The elevator has the bad habit of dropping suddenly, throwing her to the … Continue reading
Prisoners of the Ghostland is a weird Samurai/Western action film starring Nicholas Cage. This should be a fun combination but I think the film is simply trying too hard. It has a manufactured artificial level of weirdness instead of being … Continue reading
Level 16 is a movie about a mysterious school/hospital/prison where girls grow up isolated from the world and its poison air. They are taught not to question authority and to obey every order issued. They believe, when they get old … Continue reading
Wow. This movie is what happens when someone thinks they understand what the hu-mans want in a cerebral scientifical fictionalized account for motion picture films. Risen is about a small town in Pennsylvania that gets hit by a meteorite, poisoning … Continue reading
If this flick was made with the same premise in the ’80s, it’d be a no-budget Z grade Mad Max knock-off… but thankfully instead this is a serious take. A serious, gloomy, grimy, muddy, ugly, rusty take. And that’s not … Continue reading
I can defend my rental of this turkey. It was on iTunes and it was released by Lionsgate. I figured it’d be a B movie but it might might have had something extra due to that production/release combo. Oh how … Continue reading
A dame walked into a hard-boiled voice over… and just like that, I realized I was watching a sci-fi detective noire. And my heart kind of sank a little as the narration continued to try too hard. This movie isn’t … Continue reading
Settlers is about a colony on Mars… cool… wait… they are breathing the atmosphere? And living in a lone settlement with only three people? What’s going on here? This seems impractical. Is this Mars or is it just Arizona with … Continue reading
To be generous, this is an admirable attempt to make a brainy science fiction film on a low budget, limited cast, and probably during the pandemic (subtitle should be Everybody’s Gone to the Pandemic, perhaps). But I’m not going to … Continue reading
Free Guy is kind of like taking a shopping car through movie history and picking and choosing elements from all over. Instantly I saw a little Lego Movie, Truman Show, Dark City, The Matrix, Tron and a few others. In … Continue reading