Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You is an ambitious movie, way more ambitions that anything a first-time director has any right to tackle (prior Riley co-directed a short with Chris Wroubel). Lakeith – or is that “LaKeith? – Stanfield (Knives Out) is Cassius Green, a guy who’s moving through life in a perpetual state of […]
Alex Proyas’ fantastical Gods Of Egypt isn’t nearly as bad as a lot of it’s detractors would like you to think it is (though it’s also not nearly as good as it should have been). One criticism you hear a lot is that the movie is white-washed–and at first glance that may appear a valid […]
The last season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why premiered last week, and for a series that began around suicide it ends in a very life-affirming manner, with most of the characters moving on into an uncertain future though what always interested me is how this ever was a continuing series in the first place because […]
H.G. Wells’ War Of The Worlds has to be among one of the most adapted science fiction novels ever written. I can recall seven off the top of my head–including the subject of this post–though I’m reasonably certain there’re a few that have escaped my notice. This version takes place in various countries in Europe–of […]
I’m not the greatest fan of subtitles. That being said I’ve been watching quite a few foreign movies lately and what I’ve learned is that they’re a necessary evil, especially if your other option is dubbing. Dubbing are the addition of audio (vocal) tracks, typically done after a movie is made to help it better […]
; Sam Hargrave’s Extraction (2020) is the story of Taylor Rake (Chris Hemsworth) who when the movie opens seemingly has a death wish, which might have something to do with him accepting an assignment from his handler, Arjun (Piyush Khati) to free the son of a drug lord who was kidnapped by a rival drug […]
I enjoyed John Logan’s Penny Dreadful, which ran on Showtime from 2014-2016, which is why I’m confused by the trailer for Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels. As far as I can tell it not only has nothing at all to do with the terrain covered by the original series, but none of the actors makes […]
Jon Turteltaub’s The Meg isn’t a terrible movie–that would imply some sort of drive, of ambition–it’s just so intent on doing it’s damnedest to not offend that it’s just a bit boring. That’s not to say that there’re no thrilling or humorous moments–there are–but they’re scattered among a pretty generic plot that’s so rife with […]
I have to admit that I was expecting a lot from Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, the followup to 2015’s The Vvitch. And I also have to admit those expectations were, for the most part, dashed. Though crushed expectations notwithstanding, if that were the only thing wrong with The Lighthouse I might have been able to […]
I going to just put this out there, but I don’t tend to like inspirational-type movies that wear their inspiration on their sleeves. Antebellum–at least based upon the trailer–is such a movie. Janelle Monáe plays Veronica, a powerful, progressive woman who’s chosen to go back to Slavery times to (likely) write some sort of wrong. […]
