Xavier Gens’ Cold Skin is a fascinating movie about the evil that resides within us all though what it isn’t is Lovecraftian (a term used most often, I’ve noticed, by people who have never actually read Lovecraft). The movie revolves around a weather observer during World War I, who’s stationed on a remote island for […]
When I heard Damon Lindelof (Lost, Prometheus, Star Trek: Into Darkness) was tackling Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen I wasn’t too optimistic. And my hesitancy–on the surface–was justified because Into Darkness ranked among one of the most irritating movies of 2013 while Prometheus (2012) may have looked spectacular, its story was underwhelming and for […]
Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse isn’t a good movie though what’s surprising is how bad it actually is. It’s badly written, directed in a mediocre fashion and a terrible interpretation of one of Marvel Comics’ most powerful mutants (never mind how it treats the other characters. Like Psylocke. Like Storm. Like Archangel/Angel. Like Quicksilver). I could […]
Niels Arden Oplev’s reboot of Flatliners (2017) is one of those reboots that managed to be better than the original. Which isn’t saying too much since Joel Schumacher’s movie wasn’t too great, mainly due to its mix of music video esthetics and schmaltz that has not aged too well. The reboot eschews the music video […]
I recently saw 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and it’s one of the worse movies I have ever seen. And I’m not being hyperbolic here. It’s. The. Worst. It’s the epitome of cinema as product and virtually engineered to get asses into theater seats, which I did not do particularly well, it’s worth saying. And […]
Franck Khalfoun’s Prey is a fascinating movie, though not always in the way you’d like in the sense that it takes multiple storylines and brings them together in a way that doesn’t quite mesh. The main storyline revolves around Toby (Logan Miller) who, seemingly in an effort to recover from the death of his father, […]
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 […]
