The concept of Paradise is an old sci-fi trope… the rich (sometimes literally) feeding on the poor to gain youth or everlasting life. And I guess what matters is if they find something interesting to do with the premise. This … Continue reading
Color me surprised. This new Resident Evil animated film is the best of in the series. And I’m not just talking about the other CGI animated adaptations but the live action ones too. Though, to be fair, that’s a pretty … Continue reading
They Cloned Tyrone is a fun sci-fi satire that lives on the intersection of Get Out and They Live. It’s a subversive paranoid thriller that works great for about half the film. The flick is about how a ho, a … Continue reading
I don’t remember the original Bird Box in great detail… it came out in 2018! Can you imagine? Five years earlier (dear god… time is the crucible in which we burn). I remember it being alright… lot of buzz around … Continue reading
Gray Matter is a new (HBO) Max film that is the result of the latest season of Project Greenlight. It’s an interesting, low budget idea that may or may not have been able to stand on its own. It doesn’t … Continue reading
Part of me suspects Asteroid City is one big troll by Wes Anderson. Like he put together a movie that feels exactly like a movie he’d make, but then he just filled it with abstractions, oddities, and disconnected stuff. When … Continue reading
I am absolutely not a fan of the Michael Bay era of the Transformers movies. I found them over-produced noise with a same-iness to all the monotonous action scenes. They left me bored and mentally drained. But I enjoyed the … Continue reading
Simulant is such a retread of other movies, I was perturbed when I couldn’t find it when I accidentally typed in “Replicant”. But here we are… a run-of-the-mill robot/AI sci-fi flick with a premise previously scene earlier this year in … Continue reading
The premise of Robots showed promise. In the near future, humanoid robots have taken most of the jobs but its illegal to own a realistic robot. Jack Whitehall plays a guy who owns one that he sends out on dates … Continue reading
Crater is a Disney+ film set on Earth’s moon which is just a fueling station for folk traveling to Earth’s richer and more abundant colony. A group of moon kids decide to steal a rover and cruise over to an … Continue reading