When Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy is firing on all cylinders there’s a joy of superhero action to behold. Though like a car that takes way too long to warm up, by the time it’s ready to go we’re approaching the end of our patience (and the run of the eight episode first season). Jupiter’s Legacy was […]
I grew up on cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Johnny Quest and Woody Woodpecker, etc, which typically consisted less of thematic/moral lessons than various degrees of chaos. Davey and Goliath – which is animation, just with clay – and The Peanuts were notorious for looking at things from a thematic perspective though the thing is they […]
John Suits’ Breach isn’t a good movie though not quite for the reasons you might think. After all, it stars an occasionally apathetic Bruce Willis, which usually is a pretty reliable sign that the director just doesn’t care though this movie has so much that doesn’t work that Willis is the least of it’s problems. […]
Netflix is very hit and miss as far as horror movies go. For every The Perfection (2018) or Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) you get way too many The Open House (2018)-adjacent movies. Though His House (2020) is not only as good as anything they’ve produced thus far, it’s probably the best horror movie they’ve done yet. […]
To be honest the only reason I rented Girl (2020) was because it turned up on iTunes for 99 cents (though the actress on the poster – Bella Thorne – with a hatchet certainly didn’t hurt it’s chances). I’m not entirely sure what I expected from the movie though being unfamiliar with Thorne – I’m […]
“Neil Armstrong, Eat Your Heart Out” is interesting because – compared to the three earlier episodes of Amazon’s Invincible – it’s the weakest yet. And keep in mind: This series releases a new episode each week. There’s no excuse I can find for the animation to take such a nose dive though I have a […]
If you’ve never seen a martial arts movie – or anything starring either Arnold Schwarzenegger or Danny Glover – Jiu Jitsu might blow your mind. If you have – and that likely includes most of us – you’re assured to be unimpressed because Jiu Jitsu is too derivative of much better movies like Predator (1987), […]
Amazon’s Invincible – based on the Image comic book created by Robert Kirkman (of The Walking Dead) is a love letter to the modern age superhero. In fact, depending upon what you think about that will probably have a lot to do with how you feel about the series. The story so far – only […]
Jason Banker’s Toad Road is a great movie. What makes it so impressive is that the horrors aren’t those like zombies or aliens, but those present in us all. The horrors of ennui and loneliness; the horrors of constantly searching for distraction from our mundane lives. The story revolves around a group of teenagers, who […]
Have you ever seen a movie that you felt you should like, a movie that has all the elements that you tend to enjoy, only to grudgingly come to the conclusion that – when you’re being honest with yourself – that you didn’t like it nearly as much as you’d thought you would? That was […]
