“Wonder Woman 1984” Review
2017’s Wonder Woman featured the Amazon warrior of Diana Prince trying to prove that humanity is worth saving from the wrath of warring gods. The follow-up film finds the hero, once more reprised by Gal Gadot, trying to find the good in humanity warring against itself. Though the film chooses Continue Reading
“Synchronic” Review
The sci-fi mystery of Synchronic starts off fairly scientific but quickly veers off into wilder territory. The initial explanation for its fantastical appeal of time-travel drugs is that a pill has been invented which alters our perception of time so we experience different eras. By the time we get a Continue Reading
“Tenet” Review
Christopher Nolan’s grand ideas for mind-bending action are certainly unparalleled. Tenet is undoubtedly his most elaborate, playing with time and its inversion to stage the most trippy and tense of sequences, designed to distort and excite. Nolan’s ambition, however, has trumped the rest of his filmmaking, less concerned with a Continue Reading
“Bacurau” Review
Brimming with a brazen Brazillian flavor, Bacurau is one of the more unexpected films of 2020. Here is a film that continues to surprise and shock in how it mixes together elements of Mad Max rebellion, small-town superstition, cutthroat political commentary, and unbound basking in ultraviolent vigor. Evoking cultural relevance Continue Reading
“The Old Guard” Review
Greg Rucka resides over the screenplay adaptation of his comic book The Old Guard which breaths with an air more akin to snugly fitting a mainstream action picture. Though its ambition perhaps aims a little bolder and its themes of persecution much louder than the flock, I can’t help but Continue Reading
“My Spy” Review
My Spy doesn’t even try to hide the fact that its action-movie bingo. It’s a familiar assembly line of action and comedy that is sure to garner some deja vu among its audience. If only the film had the extra dose of insight to satirize its tropes rather than dance Continue Reading
“The Hunt” Review
In a time of political divisiveness, The Hunt more or less aims to be the South Park of social horror. It has no greater ambition to say something overt about the world in its cavalcade of gore and tension. The film would sadly rather stew in the extreme lunacy of Continue Reading
“Bloodshot” Review
Roger Ebert once referred to Die Hard as a bruised-arm action picture, where the hero ends up battered and bloody by the end of the picture after having survived an explosive experience. Bloodshot should fall in line with a new category, say, the rough-skin action picture. It’s a film where Continue Reading
“Sonic the Hedgehog” Review
Sonic the Hedgehog, personally, is a conflict of nostalgia. I grew up playing the Sega Genesis games which made the blue blur becom an icon of my childhood. I also grew up watching mindless 90s-cool media like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and still hold an affinity for which is partial Continue Reading
“Birds of Prey” Review
Birds of Prey is exactly the movie-makeover the character of Harley Quinn needed. With Margot Robbie providing the highlight performance of the abysmal Suicide Squad, she now gets to break out in a film that can better use her and free her from the tired superhero formula. No more stopping Continue Reading