A winner and a not winner. The Long Walk The Long Walk messed me up. Not because it’s hitting some hot-button political topic of the moment, but because it doesn’t need to. It’s always been relevant. Desperation makes people do really fucked up shit. Like voluntarily signing up for a dystopian death march where you getContinue reading “The Long Walk and Spinal Tap 2 Reviews”
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2025 Movie Reviews: M3GAN 2.0 and The Women in the Yard
Nothing good this week. M3GAN 2.0 Full disclosure: I love M3GAN. Not the movie, the character. I love her stupid little dances. I love her bratty little voice, her psychotic programming, the way she inflects certain words, etc. Besides Chucky and Tiffany, she’s probably the most entertaining murderous doll character out there. So it deeplyContinue reading “2025 Movie Reviews: M3GAN 2.0 and The Women in the Yard”
2025 Movie Reviews: 28 Years Later & The Life of Chuck
A good one and a good-ish one in a very disappointing year so far for cinema. 28 Years Later Last weekend I was up north at my parents’ cabin, halfway through a bottle of something, standing on their patio overlooking a gorgeous serene lake with a couple industry-adjacent buddies (read: an agency creative and aContinue reading “2025 Movie Reviews: 28 Years Later & The Life of Chuck”
2024 Movie Reviews: Anora & Conclave
Two great films this week. Anora One thing you can never say about indie filmmaker Sean Baker is that he’s boring. His films, while having varying degrees of quality, never fail to hold your attention. In 2015, Baker exploded onto the screen with his debut feature, Tangerine, which stood out for casting a lot of non-actors in bit parts,Continue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: Anora & Conclave”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Smile 2 / Megalopolis / Industry / Rumours / A Different Man / Mr. McMahon / V/H/S Beyond
A lot of stuff this week. Smile 2 2024 has been a disheartening year for horror films. Only a few have been good, and only one has been great. That’s why I had absolutely zero expectations when I went into Smile 2. I was very lukewarm on the first one, finding it too campy to beContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Smile 2 / Megalopolis / Industry / Rumours / A Different Man / Mr. McMahon / V/H/S Beyond”
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 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”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Fallout / Challengers / Shōgun / Chucky / Drive Away Dolls / Saw X
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”
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”
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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