My Favorite Movies: The Original Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983)
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Action
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 […]
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
I don’t know, I guess I expected something else from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Even as many fans and critics around me seem to be cooling on this whole MCU business – this is the 28th film – I have steadfastly remained loyal (although “Moonknight” did test my limits). What disappoints me about […]
All the Old Knives (2022)
Amazon Prime, what are you doing? 2002 nostalgia? Is that what this is? All the Old Knives employs all the old post-9/11 hack-fried government paranoia and disorientation. A little “24” here, a little Bourne Identity there, fused with the kinds of clip-editing, ominous music and who-do-you trust aesthetics that have padded Liam Neeson’s post-Taken career. […]
Agent Game (2022)
As a matter of personal policy, I make it a rule never to drag an actor’s personal issues into their latest work. Yet, I shamefully admit that I found myself involuntarily (and admittedly humorously) wincing during the pre-credit sequence of Agent Game in which Mel Gibson tells his unseen radio cohort: “We may have a problem.” […]
Infinite Storm (2022)
It must be written into the fabric of lone survivalist women in the movies that they can’t just brave the elements and come out the other side alive but psychologically dented, there has to be some personal baggage bringing up the rear, usually in the form of a recent tragedy. It makes things, uh, you […]
Alice (2022)
Alice is a terrible movie. It’s crude, obvious, badly written and filmed so awkwardly that it loses the momentum of its biggest surprise. And yet . . . and yet! Underneath all of the amateurish nonsense lies a potentially good movie. The film is the latest product of the new black visibility but one would […]
The Batman (2022)
It occurred to me about three-quarters of the way through The Batman that I may be finished with this character. There is simply nothing else that I need to be shown, largely because we have apparently stopped trying to make Batman movies entertaining and we have started running them through a pace that gets darker and darker […]
