Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor: Love and Thunder is going to be a hard movie to rewatch. The first half of this film is so corny that it almost single-handedly ruins Thor and the MCU in its cheesy overkill. But the second half… the … Continue reading
Thor: Love and Thunder is going to be a hard movie to rewatch. The first half of this film is so corny that it almost single-handedly ruins Thor and the MCU in its cheesy overkill. But the second half… the … Continue reading
I’m quite mixed on this heady sci-fi drama. On the one hand, it’s what I technically want in smart semi-realistic science fiction: big ideas and brains over blasters. But this film makes a bad ethical argument and does it very, … Continue reading
Alexa and Siri might be evil, ya’ll. Like, they might be planning to take over your house and run your life. So better watch out, better not pout. Sigh. Dark Cloud is a very boring, very uninspired story about a … Continue reading
Blasted has an amusing idea for a sci-fi action comedy but none of the execution works. The flick is about a bunch of friends who head to an excluded valley for some paint ball and laser tag fun when they … Continue reading
Spiderhead feels like it exists for one purpose: to give Chris Hemsworth a meaty acting gig that proves he’s more than just Thor (or a goofy comedian). And, hey, if that was the goal then they achieved it. This is … Continue reading
Most of this Toy Story spinoff feels like a generic space adventure that someone, early on in development, glued a Toy Story connection onto in order to get folks to rush out to the the theater. In other words, no … Continue reading
Oddly, I liked the world-building and setups in the first half of this film. Seems most people hated that… whereas I was deeply disappointed with the running and the screaming in the second half (where most felt it finally limped … Continue reading
In my recent re-watch review of the original 1984 Firestarter, I said it was an hour and forty minute buildup to the arson-heavy, fireball-spewing finale. Something I doubted the new film would handle as well due to the likely use … Continue reading
Night Raiders is set in a near-future North America ravaged by a vaguely defined civil war. Our main character is a mother of a pre-teen who lives off the grid. But when the little girl is injured, they head to … Continue reading
Dual is set in the near future where human cloning is possible but mostly outlawed. Karen Gillan plays a woman who is diagnosed with something that might as well be a brain cloud… she’ll die soon enough, but she’ll feel … Continue reading