Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
Opening Birmingham Alabama’s 26th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival [...]
Tag: one-stars
Warcraft (2016)
Some years ago, maybe around 2010, I recall standing in my den looking over my wife’s shoulder while she was playing a game on the computer. I asked what she was playing; “World of Warcraft,” she said. On the screen was a character dressed in white seated on the back of an ostrich with a […]
God’s Not Dead 2 (2016)
Twenty-four months ago, I had a certain amount of devilish joy in giving the business to a halfwit Christian film named God’s Not Dead, a movie so wrong-headed, so angry and so offensive that I eventually had even further devilish joy naming it the worst movie of 2014. It had nothing to do with its […]
By the Sea (2015)
Half an hour into By the Sea, I began to get the sinking feeling the movie was actually slowing down – and that was after a slow start. I’m not being mean, I’m serious. The movie started slow, then slowed to such a crawl that I almost expected the movie to come to a dead […]
Fantastic Four (2015)
Fantastic Four is a very dark movie. I mean, really dark. I mean dark, as in, somebody please flip some lights on. That’s not a joke; every scene in this movie is so under-lit that you feel like your wearing sunglasses indoors. Every outdoor scene feel you’re attending a vampire funeral. It is a funerary […]
The Gallows (2015)
There is a brief moment late into The Gallows that is so restrained and so steadily terrifying that I felt a great lurch in my stomach. Cassidy, the buxom cheerleader is trying to pull herself together after her boyfriend goes missing. She sits at the top the of stairs trying to pull herself together. The camera […]
Faith of Our Fathers – a.k.a. To the Wall (2015)
I have no objection to the output of PureFlix Entertainment. Christian movie goers should have their films on the big screen just as much as fans of horror or comedy or action pictures. The writers and directors of the films put out by PureFlix have set out on a mission, to give a forgotten audience […]
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)
I am not as angry with Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 as I have reason to be. The movie is too lethargic and bland to earn any sort of rage; the closest I come to anger is that while I was watching the movie I had an intense desire to be anywhere else – a […]
The Longest Ride (2015)
Nicholas Sparks is the perennial schlock-meister of romantic goo-goo eyes. He has made a cottage industry of creating a romantically-tinged alternate universe in which the ups and downs of romance are beaten back by reading old love letters and restoring a house. His stories are worry-free fantasies designed for those who run screaming from anything […]
