What I wrote in my review of the first season of Star Trek: Discovery was that I enjoyed it despite the fact that it was Star Trek in name only (for the most part) that doesn’t apply to the second season, which has almost righted the ship, so to speak. Part of the reason for […]
Ignore all the hatred you’ve heard about Star Trek: Discovery (currently airing in the United States on CBS All Access, internationally on Netflix) because IT IS AWESOME. That being said, that “awesome” should be taken with more than a few caveats, the biggest being that if you’re a worshipper at the Church of Roddenberry, you’re […]
The first–and only–season of Nightflyers appeared Netflix earlier this month and it’s pretty entertaining (though by no means as good as it should/could have been) though it was not where the story of the Nightflyer began. It began life as a short story by George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones, Fevre Dream, Wild […]
Babak Anvari was a new quantity to me before I saw Wounds on Hulu, and having seen it, this guy is going to go far. Wounds is a story about a bartender named Will (Armie Hammer) who moves aimlessly though life but there’s a destiny waiting him, and it’s a horrific one. Wounds is more […]
Is it just me or is Christopher Nolan one of the most visually unimaginative directors working today. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that he’s not good at what he does–I not saying that at all–though what I am saying is that Nolan grounds everything in reality to such a degree that it makes […]
Remember 2018’s A Quiet Place? The movie that–albeit indirectly–brought us Netflix’s Bird Box as well as The Silence? It cost $17 million to produce and earned almost $341 million. There’s no way that it wasn’t getting a sequel though was the original as good as a lot of people seem to think? I’d have to […]
As you’ve probably guessed from my reaction trailer, I think Tom Cruise is an odd dude. I don’t hate him–he seems genuinely like a kind person–but the thing is virtually everything about Cruise is designed (and I use that word deliberately) to create an impressions. He’s almost a person as art and I find that […]
Michael Bay’s 6 Underground isn’t a good movie, though it is interesting, with some great human and car-based stunts. It’s also really expensive–and looks it–coming in around $150 million according to Screenrant. And I believe it, between the stunts and the locations, this movie oozes money. My question is why couldn’t a little more of […]
Jeff Chan’s Code 8 began life as a short movie, and having watched most of it, it’s REALLY faithful to the trailer for the movie. For comparison’s sake, here’s the original short film… And my reaction to the recently released trailer. And let’s be honest, Code 8 is essentially the X-Men, and that’s okay because […]
Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo Suspiria is a movie that can’t be accused of copying the original, because it’s way too ambitious for that. And the problem–you know it was coming–is that the original movie was relatively simple: namely a horror movie that revolved around a dance academy. Guadagnino doesn’t neglect that […]
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