A franchise sequel, an indie comedy and two of the best horror films of the year. Alien: Romulus I wouldn’t say I love the Alien franchise, but I do love the first two movies. Ridley Scott‘s 1979 Alien is an absolute masterpiece in atmosphere, suspense, and art direction. James Cameron‘s 1986 Aliens avoids the more-of-the-sameContinue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: Alien Romulus / Cuckoo / Thelma / Oddity”
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2024 Movie Reviews: Trap / Didi / Tarot / Cinnamon
A teen horror slasher, a coming-of-age dramedy, a low-budget crime drama and an M. Night Shyamalan movie. A lot of variety this week. Trap NON-SPOILERS: I’ll always give an M. Night Shyamalan joint the time of day. No matter how low the Tomato score, or how awful co-workers say it is, or even if IContinue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: Trap / Didi / Tarot / Cinnamon”
2024 Movie Reviews: Deadpool & Wolverine / Abigail / Blood, Sweat & Cheer / Lowlifes
Everything is good this week. Deadpool & Wolverine Deadpool and Wolverine is the best Marvel movie I’ve seen since Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is not to say it’s great but merely good. Still, in a cinematic year so lacking in quality and consistency as this year seems to be, that’s quite the achievement. AfterContinue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: Deadpool & Wolverine / Abigail / Blood, Sweat & Cheer / Lowlifes”
2024 Movie & TV Reviews: Longlegs / The Boys / Deadly DILF / Spermworld
Serial killers, superheroes, sperm donors, and DILFs. Longlegs The most impressive thing I’ve seen all year was the marketing campaign for Longlegs. From the way the trailers were edited to merely tease the narrative to inventive marketing stunts like having The Seattle Times post a fake encrypted letter from Longlegs, the fictional serial killer withinContinue reading “2024 Movie & TV Reviews: Longlegs / The Boys / Deadly DILF / Spermworld”
Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 6 (#50-41)
UPDATE: Apologies this has taken me so long to get out, this will now be released weekly (mid-week) every week moving forward. Since it’s been so long let’s re-cap: Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 1 (#100-91) Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 2 (#90-81) Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 3 (#80-71) Top 100Continue reading “Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 6 (#50-41)”
2024 Movie Reviews: Godzilla x Kong / The Beast / The Last Stop in Yuma County / No Way Up
Two shits, two legits. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire As King Kong and Godzilla roared to each other as loud as they could, my sleep apneaic snores matched them note for note. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has to be the most boring, one-note, soulless mainstream action blockbuster released this year. I feltContinue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: Godzilla x Kong / The Beast / The Last Stop in Yuma County / No Way Up”
2024 Movie & TV Reviews: The Bear / MaXXXine / Beverly Hills Cop 4 / Interview with the Vampire
Chefs, vampires, serial killers and Eddie Murphy. The Bear Season 3 The Bear might be the most popular scripted series currently on the air. An instant smash hit when it debuted back in 2022, it only grew bigger and bigger with each passing episode until, by the end of Season 2, everyone declared it thisContinue reading “2024 Movie & TV Reviews: The Bear / MaXXXine / Beverly Hills Cop 4 / Interview with the Vampire”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: The Bikeriders / Kinds of Kindness / Fantasmas / Stopmotion
Nothing bad this week. The Bikeriders I’m a fan of writer/director Jeff Nichols. The Arkansas-born filmmaker has proven his versatility time and time again, seamlessly switching from end-of-the-world parables to science fiction to even a modern-day retelling of Mark Twain‘s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Whatever the genre he’s working in, he always finds very humanContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: The Bikeriders / Kinds of Kindness / Fantasmas / Stopmotion”
2024 Movie Reviews: The Watchers / Hit Man / Ren Faire
The Watchers The Watchers is an exhausting watch but not in the way…let’s say an Ingmar Bergman picture would be. Nope, it’s not utterly mind-ravaging in the way a well-executed but intensely cerebral avant-garde thriller from Europe would be. The Watchers is belligerently debilitating because at no point does any supporting character stop verbal diarrhea-ingContinue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: The Watchers / Hit Man / Ren Faire”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Hacks / The Sympathizer / In A Violent Nature / Movie Pass Movie Crash
Hacks One of the best comedy series of the past ten years is finally back for a third season, and while it doesn’t quite reach the heights of its near-perfect first and second seasons, it’s a lot funnier than anything on television right now. When we last left, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava DanielsContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Hacks / The Sympathizer / In A Violent Nature / Movie Pass Movie Crash”
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