The 355 is about a team of female agents, each from a different country’s intelligence agency, working together (eventually) to retrieve the most McGuffiny of McGuffins. A doohickey that lets baddies hack anything… cause planes to explode mid-air, shut down … Continue reading
I have a love/hate relationship with Del Toro movies. I wind up not liking them nearly as much as everyone else. A few I love, more I don’t. So I didn’t go into Nightmare Alley with high expectations. I wasn’t … Continue reading
Encounter: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept the Film For What It Is. This movie, which I knew nothing about other than it was sci-fi, was bait-and-switch even with my ignorance. As Bait, it’s really good bait. … Continue reading
Oh wow… what a bait and switch… and it’s all my fault. With a title and poster art like that, I thought I was in for something gonzo and wildly satirical, especially with it being defined as a satire. But … Continue reading
Cryptic, obscure, impenetrable… I’m not even sure I can talk about this movie in context of what it is, what it’s about, or even what happens. It’s deliberately muddled, murky, and muffled… not something that I think is intended to … Continue reading
The Guilty is a single-location suspense thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the voices of other actors (surprise! It’s certainly a Covid production). Jake takes a 911 call and spends the majority of the movie using his particular set of skills … Continue reading
The Beta Test is, at first, a head-scratching title but eventually the twisty narrative navigates to a general explanation. And I guess it’s a warning… though maybe in the “no duh” camp. But that’s not a crime for this otherwise … Continue reading
Ever have that feeling the box art has lied to you? It’s as though one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover or something. But that doesn’t explain why this flick is actually labeled horror. I shake my tiny fist … Continue reading
I was very engaged in the first half of this film. It was eerie, mysterious, and occasionally scary. It appealed to my sense of technology, mystery, and personal obsession. But it slowly unraveled until it reached a shrug of a … Continue reading
I can say with some assurance that I haven’t seen anything quite like this before. And that’s a huge net positive… so very rarely do you ever get to see something new. And I went in knowing only that it … Continue reading