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
Hypnotic is a movie that really, really, really, REALLY wants to blow your mind. And maybe it will if you haven’t seen a lot of twisty, clever films. It tries to do something interesting… but it doesn’t do it in … Continue reading
Despite the fact you can see the gears at work in this film, Guardians 3 did for me what few MCU films have done: it made me genuinely concerned about the characters and it made me care. Care enough to … Continue reading
The Artifice Girl is exactly what I want from a science fiction film. It puts to shame a number of other attempts at representing AI. I hope I’m not overselling it or ascribing greater meaning or intelligence than it deserves. … Continue reading
War of the Worlds: The Attack is the latest adaptation of the classic novel. It’s an ultra low budget flick that makes an effort to translate the book to modern England… but it’s sabotaged on all sides by incompetence. The … Continue reading