Author Archive: Jerry Roberts
Jerry Roberts is a film critic and operator of two websites, Armchair Cinema and Armchair Oscars.
The First Omen (2024)
Let me start by saying that I did NOT see Michael Mohan’s IMMACULATE, which came out a few weeks ago and to which my fellow critics have labeled this Omen prequel a less-than stellar carbon copy. Having not seen that film I feel that I can safely judge this movie on its own. So, with […]
Roadhouse (2024)
Not that anyone cares, but there is a remake of Roadhouse that Amazon Prime has allowed to skip theaters I might presume because the studio was smart enough to know that this pointless 80s nostalgia retread is a difficult sell over the sequel powerhouses of GHOSTBUSTERS or DUNE PART TWO or KUNG FU PANDA 4. […]
Animal Kingdom (2024)
I’ll admit, I don’t normally think of a Sci-Fi fantasy coming out of France, but . . . here we are. Tim Cailly’s Animal Kingdom, which got a lot of kudos when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last yearworks because it takes it oddball premise and attaches it to a scenario that we […]
Late Night With the Devil
Late Night With the Devil is about as fascinating as it is frustrating. It’s the same problem that I had with GHOSTBUSTERS FROZEN EMPIRE but, even at its flaws, I liked this one a lot better because even with its flaws, it is wildly entertaining and features a star-making performance by David Dastmalchian. Framed as […]
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
I saw Ghostbusters: Afterlife for the first time yesterday morning because I knew that I was going to see Frozen Empire today. That film broke my heart. It was laughless, listless, needless and retreated to an endless and frustrating series of callbacks to the first movie and recycled the plot without doing anything new with […]