Hello, Dankness (2023)
The value of experimental filmmaking is in challenging [...]
Action
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 […]
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
When it comes to mass volley of Spider-Man movies, I confess that I am guilty of being “that guy.” I have complained that there have been too many Spider-Man movies, too many origin stories, too many reiterations of the same idea all spinning around and around, like The Wheel of Samsara, casting this iconic hero […]
No Time to Die (2021)
It is probably well to note right away that No Time to Die, the 25 James Bond adventure, is not going to please many purists. Those who have picked and prodded through every nook and cranny of this long-running series, or those who view it as comfort food, are going to walk away with mixed […]
The Suicide Squad (2021)
I don’t want to be this guy. I don’t want to be the guy who persistently compares the DC Cinematic Universe to its spiritual cousin over there at Disney+. But I feel that I am given no choice. The two are working in the same medium but while the MCU greets me with the warmth […]
Black Widow (2021)
Watching Marvel’s pandemic-delayed Black Widow, it’s hard get away from the feeling that it seems to be slightly out of date – by, say, five years. I don’t mean that to sound harsh, this movie is slightly better than I had expected but given real-world events, the current chronology of the Marvel Universe, and justified […]
Mortal Kombat (2021)
I come to the 2021 edition of Mortal Kombat only with vague memories of having played “Mortal Kombat II” on the Sega Genesis, and a modest affection for the first screen attempt back in 1995. From what I recall, I played the game routinely without having what you might call a fixation. I recall that […]
