The Door into Summer is a Japanese film that’s available on Netflix. It’s based on a Robert Heinlein novel of the same name, written in 1956 about a scientist in 1970 who gets cryogenically frozen and wakes up in 2000 … Continue reading
The Matrix Resurrections starts strong, has good story continuation from the end of the last film, but suffers from a saggy final act. For awhile, I was thinking the film was going to be quite strong until it fell into … Continue reading
This low stakes, high concept film was cruising for a super average review until, out of nowhere, I realized I was not only kind of enjoying it, but I was liking (some of) the characters. That’s hardly fair. Multiverse takes … Continue reading
I sometimes wonder why I do this to myself… why we do this to ourselves. Odds were very low this was going to be a good movie, yet I hit play with hope that this movie, this time I’ll have stumbled upon a diamond … Continue reading
I’ll have to admit I’ve got a problem… and that I’m part of the problem. I’ve become intrigued by these toss-aside Bruce Willis quickies that use and abuse his name on the marketing. If maybe I didn’t give them my … Continue reading
It took some time for this flick to grow on me. I thought it was a decent post-apocalypse flick that slowly lost me a bit when it became a road-trip movie. But through the sheer power of acting, writing, and … Continue reading
Needle in a Timestack is a melancholy romance with a sci-fi high concept. In the near future, time travel is possible. It’s expensive but you can contract with a company to send you back… but making changes is illegal. That … Continue reading
Warning is poorly made and poorly told anthology of short sci-fi films that are jammed together and pureed into a confused soup. Each mediocre story is intercut with other stories and if you ever get confused, then welcome to the … Continue reading
Ron’s Gone Wrong asks the all-important question: What if Baymax was an aggravating dick? Happily, this movie answers that question: It’d be teeth-gratingly annoying and make me physically ill. Yay. Ron’s Gone Wrong is about a megacorporation that releases personalized … Continue reading
I read the novel Dune when I was too young and didn’t get it. Then I saw the David Lynch film and loved it, even though I knew (even at a young age) that it was a mess (to be … Continue reading