Jailhouse to Milhouse (2024)
I had a minor resistance walking into Buddy [...]
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Twisters (2024)
Twisters isn’t exactly a sequel to Jan de Bont’s beloved 1996 tornado spectacle, its more of a remake-quel with, again, impressive visual effects and eardrum-rattling sound design placed around the story of a bunch of thrill-seeking hillbilly scientists who are about as deep as the puddle in your driveway. It gives you what you want, […]
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)
The third Beverly Hills Cop sequel arrives on Netflix this week just in time for the July 4th holiday and the fact that it is skipping theaters and going right for a streaming service is probably for the best. Like Murphy’s previous sequel Coming 2 America, the filmmakers obviously knew that it wasn’t something that […]
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 […]
