Mostly great stuff this week. Fallout “Based on a video game” used to be the worst thing you could ever hear about a movie. Resident Evil, Silent Hill, House of the Dead, Street Fighter, Doom, Max Payne, any Uwe Boll adaptation—all terrible. The live-action Mortal Kombat movie from 1995 is very fun to watch, but its sequel, Annihilation, is a strong contender for one ofContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Fallout / Challengers / Shōgun / Chucky / Drive Away Dolls / Saw X”
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Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 4 (#70-61)
Around the time I started this site, I did a “Top 100 of the 1990s” with the intention of doing a new decade every year. I had meant to do a new decade every year, but as with life, stuff came up. I got overwhelmed by my primary responsibilities on this site: reviewing new filmContinue reading “Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 4 (#70-61)”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Civil War / The First Omen / Curb Your Enthusiasm / Regime / Ripley
Only one stinker this week. Civil War My first thought after leaving the theater showing Civil War was, “I wonder how this movie will fare in 10 years?” I have a sneaking suspicion it will all but mostly be forgotten about. This isn’t to say Alex Garland (Men, Annihilation, Ex-Machina) has made a bad film because he hasn’t. He’sContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Civil War / The First Omen / Curb Your Enthusiasm / Regime / Ripley”
Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 3 (#80-71)
Part 1: #100-91 Part 2: #90-81 Around the time I started this site, I did a “Top 100 of the 1990s” with the intention of doing a new decade every year. I had meant to do a new decade every year, but as with life, stuff came up. I got overwhelmed by my primary responsibilitiesContinue reading “Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 3 (#80-71)”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Monkey Man / Immaculate / Road House / The Truth vs Alex Jones / The Program / You’ll Never Find Me
Nothing is particularly great this week. Monkey Man If there was ever a ‘kitchen sink’ movie, it’s Monkey Man, the debut feature of underrated young actor-turned-writer/director/producer Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, The Green Knight, Lion). While it often feels like fourteen different movies starting and stopping throughout a 113-minute runtime, it’s more or less a hyper-stylized revenge tale. When aContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Monkey Man / Immaculate / Road House / The Truth vs Alex Jones / The Program / You’ll Never Find Me”
Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 2 (#90-81)
Check out Part 1: (#100-91) here… Around the time I started this site, I did a “Top 100 of the 1990s” with the intention of doing a new decade every year. I had meant to do a new decade every year, but as with life, stuff came up. I got overwhelmed by my primary responsibilitiesContinue reading “Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 2 (#90-81)”
2024 TV & Film Reviews: Love Lies Bleeding / Late Night with the Devil / Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV / Monster
Everything good this week. Love Lies Bleeding 2020 was a barren wasteland for movies and even some of its best films wouldn’t even rank for me in other years. Obviously this was all because of Covid, so it’s no big mystery why this was arguably the weakest year in cinema history. Still, there was aContinue reading “2024 TV & Film Reviews: Love Lies Bleeding / Late Night with the Devil / Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV / Monster”
Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 1 (#100-91)
Around the time I started this site, I did a “Top 100 of the 1990s” with the intention of doing a new decade every year. I had meant to do a new decade every year, but as with life, stuff came up. I got overwhelmed by my primary responsibilities on this site: reviewing new filmContinue reading “Top 100 Films of 2000s: Part 1 (#100-91)”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Dune Part Two / Perfect Days / Dark Harvest / Nowhere
3 indies and an E-P-I-C. Dune Part Two Dune Part Two is a tremendous and moving visual experience that must be had in a movie theater. I regret not seeing it in IMAX, even though those hard, skinny seats are hell on my back. I saw it at Majestic, a Phoenix-based, independently-owned theater chain that took overContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Dune Part Two / Perfect Days / Dark Harvest / Nowhere”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: True Detective: Night Country / The Taste of Things / How to Have Sex / Suitable Flesh / The Doom Generation / Lover Stalker Killer
Just Bs and Cs this week. True Detective: Night Country I had reasonably high expectations for a series starring Jodie Foster, produced by Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins, and written and directed by talented filmmaker Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid). The biggest detractor for me was that Night Country was sporting the True Detective brand, which hasn’t meant much since the first and best seasonContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: True Detective: Night Country / The Taste of Things / How to Have Sex / Suitable Flesh / The Doom Generation / Lover Stalker Killer”
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