When just about everything goes wrong with a movie, you get Redemption Day. It’s a wannabe Jack Ryan/Tom Clancy geopolitical thriller that doesn’t have the smarts for those ambitions. It’s poorly directed and mushily edited, the acting is sometimes pretty … Continue reading
Without Remorse’s first problem is a title so generic it makes me miss The Hunt for Red October and The Sum of All Fears. But a title isn’t a movie. In this case though, a generic title for a kind … Continue reading
The drama about Tenet’s release at theaters and now, finally, on streaming is greater, and more comprehensible, than the movie itself. Well, it finally did come to streaming and I finally did buy it (instead *gasp* of waiting 20 days … Continue reading
Checked out the new international spy thriller The Rhythm Section. I say international spy thriller when I really should say “international incompetent spy thriller” though… and one based on a series of novels (which I have not read) so I … Continue reading
After three days of trying to get into a screening, I finally saw the new Will Smith animated film Spies in Disguise. Why three days? Well, kids are out of school and they only have two regular showings of the … Continue reading
Checked out the new Charlie’s Angels reboot/sequel. This is a continuation of both the 70s tv show and the Drew Barrymoore reboots… it directly visually and vocally makes reference to the old material and acts as an expansion of the… … Continue reading
Checked out the new Will Smith / Ang Lee directed action/spy/sci-fi flick Gemini Man. This is the one that stars both Will Smith and The Fresh Prince (de-aged Will Smith) as dueling assassins. Will Smith is a good-guy assassin … Continue reading
So I checked out an Indian language / Bollywood film called War. My local theater actually gets a pretty decent number of Indian (as in: filmed in India) movies, none of which I see because A) I don’t know what … Continue reading
So… Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw is a spinoff movie. It’s kind of like a Star Wars Story… an offshoot story from the main Vin Diesel saga… or something. Like it really matters. Moving on. So Hobbs … Continue reading
Luc Besson’s new film Anna came and probably will be gone in about fifteen minutes. This new film is about woman turned into an assassin… and Besson’s earliest films include La Femme Nikita and Leon: The Professional… so this is … Continue reading