This is an indie flick that you’ll either love or find impenetrable. I’m in the later camp… I appreciate what it was doing but I just couldn’t find an entry that would allow me really enjoy it. I came away … Continue reading
I saw this film available on streaming rental and all I could tell is that it was an alien invasion flick. A couple weeks pass and I’d hovered over the Rent button a half-dozen times… but then something triggered in … Continue reading
Can’t hardly believe I’m giving this one such a good review… but, darnit, this is the kind of big idea fun pulpy science fiction I like. Don’t get me wrong, I’d prefer something smarter and more erudite – but when … Continue reading
Parallel is a decent idea for a movie that is funny and peppy… and then it’s neither of those things. I don’t think it did enough damage to itself to be unwatchable, but when you feel distracted and bored when … Continue reading
Clara is a very frustrating movie for me… someone who doesn’t need hard sci-fi but appreciates it when its made. And for a decent amount of time, this looked exactly like that. A science-based drama – maybe hovering into the … Continue reading
Infinite is dumb as a box of rocks. It’s also slickly produced and it looks good. But it also has a numbskull script that can’t get out of its own way and piteously poor narration that suggests the screenwriter, director, … Continue reading
This film almost gets there but it sags too much in the middle which kills the momentum of a good idea. The kind of high concept good idea that nearly everyone can identify with on some level. If you’ve ever … Continue reading
I guess the message of this movie is don’t do drugs. Or possibly do not have done drugs in the future. Or do do not do drugs. And the meaning of me watching this movie is… don’t watch head-scratching movies … Continue reading
A Quiet Place Part II is almost as effective a suspense/horror flick as the first. It has a couple of problems here and there but they are pretty minor for what is a genuinely creepy continuation of the first film. … Continue reading
Oxygen is one of those Predicament movies… usually the kind of flick set in one location where the character has to struggle to survive. And we can ask “what would I do if I were sealed in a coffin underground, … Continue reading