They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
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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. […]
Madame Web (2024)
Madame Web takes place in 2003, which is fitting because feels like it was MADE in 2003! You know, before Disney really started to build the MCU and every superhero movie was trying and, in most cases, failing to be Tim Burton’s Batman? This movie feels like that on a junior league level. The palette […]
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
You walk into Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny with two realities in mind: 1.) It will never match the thrill of Raiders, Temple of Doom or Last Crusade, and 2.) It just has to be better than Crystal Skull. Both assumptions are correct. This is about as middle-of-the-road as an Indiana Jones movie can be while still being […]
The Flash (2023)
I suspect that my enjoyment of The Flash might have come from my willingness to clear out all the pre-show muck. How you respond to this movie is largely a by-product of what you take with you. Are you willing to overlook Ezra Miller’s personal issues? Are you willing to overlook the film’s overuse of […]
The Mother (2023)
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Netflix releases Niki Caro’s Lion-Mom action picture The Mother, which is about an unfussy and unchallenging as an expensive, high-gloss paint-by-numbers action movie can get. Its an odd choice from a director previously responsible for more cerebral fare like Whale Rider and North Country. The Mother stars Jennifer Lopez […]
Black Adam (2022)
Black Adam is a bit much, even as far as these brobdinagian CG-heavy superhero movies go. With only fleeting bits of charm from star Dwayne Johnson, this is yet another over-produced bulk that reaffirms the timidity of current studio-driven product. It’s expensive, with lots of light and color and sound, but at its center it […]
Interceptor (2022)
Netflix action thriller Interceptor t is a movie that just needs to calm down for a second, take a breath and start over. Matthew Reilly’s debut feature throws so much at you so fast that you feel overwhelmed in the first 10 minutes and that is not to positive effect. This is an action movie that takes […]
