Knives are out for Borderlands… very low critic scores, pretty low (so far) LB ratings, based on a video game, delayed for a long, long time, and a pretty iffy trailer. So color me surprised when I had a blast … Continue reading
Space Cadet is a dumb movie and would have served itself better by totally committing to its “Police Academy only NASA” vibe. Instead, it’s a dumb movie that knows its dumb but should have either been 10% smarter or 10% … Continue reading
About all I knew about this film is that it was the most expensive Indian film ever produced… and, after watching it, that’s still about all I know. Which isn’t to say it doesn’t have a plot that I followed… … Continue reading
A Quiet Place: Day One should have just been renamed A Quiet Place: NYC since it wants to be the epic scale version of the Quiet Place Franchise. Yes, it happens on Day One of the invasion (but so too … Continue reading
The Present is a pretty decent family comedy time loop sci-fi comedy… which is not a string of genres usually put together. It’s about a family where the parents are on the verge of divorce so their three kids have … Continue reading
Latency is a sci-fi thriller that doesn’t know how to sci-fi and winds up a generic horror flick. I suspect they didn’t know how to stretch their concept out to 90 minutes so just filled it with haunted house (apartment?) … Continue reading
Bionic is a Portuguese hybrid Netflix film about a near future where artificial limb technology is significantly advanced. A female Olympic athlete has just such a bionic limb while her equally athletic younger sister does not. But a crime syndicate … Continue reading
Example of how very dumb this big Netflix sci-fi film is… it introduces the International Coalition of Nations in the first few minutes. But a Coalition of Nations would be, by definition, international. So wouldn’t it just be a Coalition … Continue reading
Welcome to a new kind of Mad Max… not the pure action rumpus of Road Warrior or Fury Road or the heroism storyline of Beyond Thunderdome or the… whatever the original film was. This is more of a lengthy epic … Continue reading
Lazareth is a viral outbreak thriller that tries very hard but has internal logical consistency issues that are hard to ignore. Your reaction to such a thing will depend on how much patience you have for this somber, internally focused … Continue reading