Watcher is a very Hitchcockian film that doesn’t quite stand up to its cinematic inspirations. Sometimes it comes close and you can feel what they are striving to be. I wish I liked the whole thing instead of just some … 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
Netflix presents: a movie dumb as a box of rocks. A script full of hammy cheesetastic corny lines of buff studmuffin dialog. And maybe a little bit of just-go-with-it fun… at least for awhile. And then you just want them … Continue reading
Escape the Field is a mash-up film… an amalgamation of ideas that circulate around a low budget, low effort location. It’s Cube if the cube was a corn field. It’s Escape Room if the room was a corn field. It’s … Continue reading
The latest Liam Neeson joint is just mind-numbingly, bone-crushingly, thumb-screwingly boring. Just a long slog of tedium… in a movie that think its has something to say and wants to be this serious-minded criminal investigation flick. And a hit-man with … Continue reading
The premise of this movie – in a CIA black site, a terrorist breaks free and begins to hunt the operatives – got me interested. It sounded maybe like a military slasher film, a reverse Die Hard, or if John … Continue reading
All the Old Knives is a spy thriller starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton as intelligence officers (and former lovers) who were witness to a terrorist incident they couldn’t stop. Now, eight years later, the agency is convinced there was … Continue reading
Alice is a film with a very similar premise to the 2020 film Antebellum but Alice takes the earlier film’s concept further. Indeed, it takes the more interesting route. Where Antebellum ends and I asked the question “OK… now what?”, … Continue reading
Panama is simply a laughable, borderline incompetent snooze-fest. A generic, probably unintentional throwback action thriller that offers nothing new or interesting. In that it barely co-stars Mel Gibson borders on – and likely steps into – Bruce Willis incompetence territory. … Continue reading
I went into The Outfit having not only not seen a trailer, but being totally ignorant of even a synopsis or genre. I sat down making a mental joke this might be the sequel to The Tuxedo, but figuring it … Continue reading