There can be no surprise with the movie “Stalker” that the tale is going to feature one individual stalking another. Can you possibly imagine the disappointment if there wasn’t? Why would you call it “Stalker,” what sense would it make?… Read More ›
To some extent, although perhaps not a very large one, “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” was grounded in reality. In my review of it, I noted that there was a moral question to the film that was intriguing – is it better… Read More ›
One of the awful trends we’re getting these days in the media are the lazy “most ‘x’ since the pandemic” or “we finally have a reason to return to ‘y’ after the pandemic” articles. You’ve likely heard a lot of… Read More ›
What do you do with a movie whose outward appearance seems at odds with everything else it’s saying? You can admire its beauty or the characters it offers. You can be intrigued about any number of aspects, but you always… Read More ›
There is without a doubt something to be said for getting an audience up close and personal with a movie’s protagonist, for having the camera regularly scan the individual’s face, displaying their expressions, and getting us to try to read… Read More ›
Taking viewers down the rabbit hole and convincing them that up is down, left is right, and back is front is not easy. Keeping folks guessing while still playing fair is no simple task. There is something to be said… Read More ›
Up today on the podcast we have the first of two planned installments on the video game, “Biomutant.” A post-apocalyptic role-playing game, “Biomutant” allows you to wander about a destroyed version of our world as a… well, a kind of… Read More ›
One of the arguments you may have heard against hte work of J.J. Abrams is that he’s always borrowing from something else, he’s always taking something that’s already been done, rejiggering it slightly, tossing in lens flare, and sending it… Read More ›
It would be easy, albeit cynical, to write a negative review of “Blue Miracle.” A family film, the movie is out on Netflix today and features Jimmy Gonzales as the operator of an orphanage for boys in Mexico as well… Read More ›
In the first “A Quiet Place,” our intrepid protagonist family, the Abbotts, trod on paths of sand that had been carefully laid out on top of roads and other trails. The sand was there to muffle the sound of their… Read More ›
There is no doubt that “My Fair Lady” is a classic. It is a great movie. There is also no doubt that the ending… well, the ending may be its downfall. Henry Higgins is a bad person throughout the film… Read More ›
Dream-horse-00197.tif From the very moment it starts, there can be no doubt how “Dream Horse” is going to end. I don’t mean the story itself—although that, too, is in no doubt—I mean the movie itself. It is an absolute certainty… Read More ›
Although I regularly think of moviegoing as a near religious experience, another thought came into my mind recently — what if we looked at movies as akin to a spider’s web? Surely you’ve had this happen to you before. You… Read More ›
The longer they continue, the less so many movie franchises have to offer. Filmmakers simply cannot keep doing the same things over and over again expecting the same amount of success – the law of diminishing returns sets in. The… Read More ›
If nothing else, Zack Snyder’s multi-year campaign to get “his version” of “Justice League” released has pushed the auteur theory in concept if not in name. Although filmmaking is a collaborative process, at this moment in time it feels difficult… Read More ›
We have all heard certain phrases before and know exactly how to read between their lines – it’s not you, it’s me (it’s you); I really want to go, but I have to wash my hair (I wouldn’t be caught… Read More ›
The desire to build order from chaos, to establish a reason why things happen and predict what will come next based on what has already occurred, is enticing to many (this reviewer certainly is counted amongst that group). Such a… Read More ›
We have recently seen “Speed” and “Shrek” arrive on 4K UHD. These are both excellent films. They were excellent when they first came out in theaters, and they’re still excellent today. One of the crucial things to note about both… Read More ›
You have, almost certainly, tried talking to a computer and the odds are pretty good that it didn’t go as smoothly as you wanted. Picture it, in making a phone call to a company, rather than getting a human being,… Read More ›
I have suggested before that one of the main questions that needs to be asked when a movie jumps around in time is if it would be remotely as interesting told in linear fashion; if moving around in time is… Read More ›
Some movies answer very specific questions. One film might ask what would happen if an alien got left behind on this planet and was found by a young boy. Another film could tackle the question of why, precisely, you wouldn’t… Read More ›
There are some movie reviews that you finish reading and wonder to yourself whether you’ve learned more about the critic than you have the film. Whether you better understand their politics or likes and dislikes or favorite sports teams or… Read More ›
“There is a good movie there, somewhere.” There are some movies that you watch and you just know it to be true—there’s a good movie there, somewhere—but it isn’t the movie as it’s been presented. The good movie, the one… Read More ›
We have all seen the action movie where the soldier decides that the higher-ups have it all wrong and goes off on his own. We have all seen the action movie where the hero is unjustly sent to prison. We… Read More ›
