It’s not exactly a secret that I’m not a fan of James Wan as a director. I enjoyed Saw (2004) and Dead Silence (2007) – both written by Leigh Wannell. Coincidence? I don’t think so – though everything else I’ve seen from him is either dull – The Conjuring (2013) and it’s sequel – silly […]
Last week I chose to see the reboot of Candyman (2021) over Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and while the former was not terribly scary, it wasn’t a decision that I regretted. Partially because the aspirations of Shang-Chi seemed a bit high (I tend to watch movies because I enjoy watching movies, […]
I’d like to think that I bring more enthusiasm to my reactions, though with David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills I just can’t find the energy. It’s not that I don’t like it. I thought that the first movie, Halloween (2018) while bringing little that was new to the reboot game, was at least interesting (and […]
With a title like ‘Squid Game’ I can understand how someone might be turned off because if you go in expecting to see even one cephalopod you’re going to be disappointed. Though if you’re looking for a thriller with serious horror overtones evocative of such fare like The Prisoner (1967), Battle Royale (2000) and The […]
As you can probably guess from that title, I’m not a fan of the John Wick movies. I’ve seen two thus far (and part of the first) – John Wick: Chapter 2 and John Wick – Chapter 3: Parabellum – and they’re all about the action set pieces. Which is fine though the problem I […]
And I suspect not the last. Christopher Nolan’s Tenet was released in 2020 to high expectations, after all he not only made Batman viable again – after Joel Schumacher ran the franchise to the ground – but directed tentpoles like Inception (2010) and Dunkirk (2017) for the studio (Inception (2014) was released via Warner Bros […]
I like to check iTunes Movie Of The Week section every once in awhile because you never know what’s going to turn up and for 99 cents you can’t beat the price (Besides, it’s where I discovered Chad Faust’s Girl (2020) which I really enjoyed). The movie on offer was Neil Burger’s (Limitless, Divergent, etc) […]
I was not looking forward to Nia DaCosta’s reboot of Candyman (2021) because I was always impressed by Bernard Rose’s 1999 movie and as I’ve always said: Remake terrible movies, not competent, well-done ones (despite the original Candyman not aging particularly well). When DaCosta’s reboot does something well – such as providing a basis for […]
Peter Winther’s Aftermath initially seems either like Sinister (2021) or The Boy (2016) – or numerous other horror movies where a house is occupied by someone besides the actual inhabitants – because you don’t know if the weird occurrences often witnessed by Natalie Dadich (Ashley Greene) are supernatural or the more earthly variety. What’s also […]
Roland Emmerich is a bit of a dinosaur in the sense that he does one thing – direct big, typically catastrophe-driven – action movies, and that’s it. Which isn’t to say that he hasn’t worked to expand his repertoire, if movies like Universal Soldier (1992), The Patriot (2000) or Stonewall (2015) are any indictors. That […]
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