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 […]
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. […]
I didn’t go into Pacific Rim: The Black expecting much. After all, Netflix’s anime versions of Godzilla (Godzilla: Monster Planet, Godzilla: Singularity Point & Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle), weren’t terrible though they weren’t anything to write home about either and seemed to revolve around other characters more than the giant lizard of […]
I really enjoyed Netflix’s Tribes Of Europa and one of the things I found particularly interesting about it was it’s seemingly Eurocentric perspective, which is to say that the dissolution of Europe into mini-fiefdoms results in the more powerful factions trying to bring the continent together under their a single ruling clan/tribe. (Another interesting thing […]
I recently canceled by subscription to Hulu, mainly because between free Tubi, Netflix and Amazon it felt like a bit of an also-ran (I had the tier with commercials because even at that point the value proposition never quite worked for me). It goes without saying that literally the day I cancel my subscription I […]
As I’ve aged (gracefully, I like to think) I’ve noticed that I don’t tend to watch much animation; I don’t dislike it, and in fact respect it as an art from in and of itself, though it just doesn’t engage me. Part of the problem is that I grew up on hand-drawn animation. And sure, […]
We Can Be Heroes is the first of the movies that Robert Rodriguez occasionally writes and directs for children (Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Spy Kids) that I have watched in it’s entirety and it’s as banal as I always assumed that the movies he’s written and directed for children would be. And it’s worth mentioning that […]
If you’ve had your fill of Rick And Morty – I haven’t though sometimes I find the show too clever for it’s own good. It’s definitely a smart show, but I feel as if on occasion it rubs viewers noses in how witty it is, which gets tiring. And then there’s Archer – another great […]
To begin, let’s establish a baseline of sorts. Sang ho-Yeon’s Train To Busan, while it promotes itself as a zombie movie, isn’t. It’s actually closer to “infected” movies like 28 Days Later, Rec, The Girl With All The Gifts and The Night Eats The World than a traditional zombie movie. And while George Romero didn’t […]
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