A movie like Vengeance is one of those movies you see all over the place being advertised for about a week before it’s in theaters and then it’s quickly pulled and after a while you’d find it in Redbox (or back in the olden days Blockbuster and Hollywood Video). Since it’s distributed through Focus FeaturesContinue reading “‘Vengeance’ Tries To Be ‘Only Murders In Texas’ But Only Shows Dated Stereotypes”
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‘The Good Son’ Focuses On The Mind Of A Young Sociopath
Warning: This post contains spoilers. By the time The Good Son hit theaters on this date, Sept. 24, 1993, Macaulay Culkin’s star was already starting to fade a little. It wasn’t because he wan’t bankable. It was because his father was making things just to difficult in Hollywood. In the five years, he had goneContinue reading “‘The Good Son’ Focuses On The Mind Of A Young Sociopath”
‘L.A. Confidential’ Still Makes The Bust
Warning: This post contains spoilers about this movie. If you haven’t seen it, please be warned before reading ahead. About three-fourths into L.A. Confidential, the character of Det. Sgt. Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) is fatally shot by Capt. Dudley Smith (James Cromwell). The scene comes without much warning and happens so fast, you realize theContinue reading “‘L.A. Confidential’ Still Makes The Bust”
‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Is An Appropriate Title
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a fitting title for a movie so absurdist in its tone and delivery it borders between genius filmmaking and sloppy pretentiousness. And I know I’m going to anger all the film nerds with this review but I liked the movie just enough to sit through it again in theContinue reading “‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Is An Appropriate Title”
‘Day Shift’ Gets The Job Done
A movie like Day Shift isn’t wanting to win any awards nor bedazzle film students. There’s a time when movies are made just for mindless entertainment. They usually get two and a half stars on average from film critics who can’t fully recommend them, but can’t outright denounce them. Movies are about entertainment and thereContinue reading “‘Day Shift’ Gets The Job Done”
‘The Game’ Plays You, The Viewer
I know it sounds like a boring Yakov Smirnoff joke. “In America, you play The Game. In Soviet Russia, The Game plays you.” But that’s exactly what it does. Coming from David Fincher as only his third movie following the great thriller Se7en, this is an entirely different movie that seems like a carbon copyContinue reading “‘The Game’ Plays You, The Viewer”
‘Pinocchio’ Is Eye-Dazzling But Wooden
Robert Zemeckis is one of the few directors who’s able to do the best with special effects as well as the regular story. His movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit set the standard in its form. There has been a mixture of live-action and animation before but you could always tell it was actors in aContinue reading “‘Pinocchio’ Is Eye-Dazzling But Wooden”
‘Morbius’ Is Atrocious, So Please No More Of This
There’s a special place in Hell for people who make movies like Morbius. It’s along the likes of the 2015 Fantastic Four and that Steel movie where Shaquille O’Neal played a superhero. I just don’t know why someone would think any of these would be a good movie. Oh, yeah! I just remember, it’s allContinue reading “‘Morbius’ Is Atrocious, So Please No More Of This”
‘Moonfall’ Makes ‘Armageddon’ Look Like ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Moonfall is a movie that cost about $140 million, give or take, to make and it still looks cheap and lacks any excitement or thrills. Maybe we’re just realizing with the big studios to promote his movies as big huge blockbusters you just have to see, Roland Emmerich has never really had no idea onContinue reading “‘Moonfall’ Makes ‘Armageddon’ Look Like ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’”
‘Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul’ Satirizes Megachurch Megastardom
I’ve never attended the black southern megachurches at the center of Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul yet I did grow up around this environment. Since today is Sept. 11, I was assigned to contact a popular black church in Americus, Ga. to see if they were doing anything for the day. The local CatholicContinue reading “‘Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul’ Satirizes Megachurch Megastardom”
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