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. […]
I didn’t hate Michael Cuesta’s American Assassin though I didn’t like it either. The movie is well-shot and cast with great actors like David Suchet, Michael Keaton, Scott Adkins and Sanaa Lathan and yet somehow manages to fall apart, particularly in the third act, which replaces some interesting human drama with James Bond-ish antics. Though […]
Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep–the sequel to The Shining–is a great movie. I try not to to be hyperbolic in my praise but it’s pretty remarkable. It somehow manages to pull off taking everything good about Kubrick’s movie and revisiting it in a way that feels new and original. And something that has to be commented […]
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