Socially Distant, self isolated and sheltered in place.
I have a large to-watch list but within that list are a small number of movies with one shared commonality: people can’t believe I haven’t seen them. Films like Psycho, … Continue Reading The Karate Kid (1984) September 9th, 2023
Over a decade after Jackass 3D’s release, Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine reunite with most of their original crew (and a handful of new idiots) to relive their glory days … Continue Reading Jackass Forever (2022) September 5th, 2023
In The Lost World, a motley crew of British explorers, journalists, and an orphan venture to the jungles of South America in search of evidence of a hidden prehistoric land untouched … Continue Reading The Lost World (1925) August 27th, 2023
In Biosphere, starring Mark Duplass as Billy and Sterling K. Brown as Ray, two childhood best friends struggle to survive the aftermath of an extinction-level event in a biodome. Billy … Continue Reading Biosphere (2022) August 26th, 2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the highly anticipated sequel to 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, left me dissatisfied. I feel like I’d been promised a gourmet meal prepared by my favorite … Continue Reading Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) July 3rd, 2023
The world seems to have rejected one of the last remnants of the Snyderverse and officially deemed The Flash a box office bomb. With a 200-220 million USD budget, the … Continue Reading The Flash (2023) June 27, 2023
I don’t know exactly how this happened, but somewhere in the hustle and bustle of moving last year I lost track of myself and never wrote a review for Doctor … Continue Reading Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) May 8th, 2022
The Tale of Zatoichi begins as a story of two rival yakuza clans. One hires an ailing ronin as their protector and the other hires the famous blind swordsman Zatoichi … Continue Reading The Tale of Zatoichi (1962) June 25th, 2023
With Asteroid City Wes Anderson reacquaints himself with the concept of measured pacing since 2022’s The French Dispatch, which I viewed as an exercise in how much a Director can … Continue Reading Asteroid City (2023) July 24th, 2023
Reminiscent of the pointless animal themed farmhouse gorefest Slaughterhouse, Luther the Geek is one of those stories that never needed to be told. Luther the Geek begins in the past … Continue Reading Luther the Geek (1989) May 16th, 2023
I’ve been Marvel-shy since last year’s tragic Thor: Love and Thunder release. I skipped Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and can’t say I’m too excited for any of their upcoming … Continue Reading The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. (2023) May 15th, 2023
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special is a successful sendup of classic holiday specials complete with format staples like musical numbers, celebrity guest appearances (here’s looking at you Mark … Continue Reading The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) May 14th, 2023
In 1980 John Landis set the record for most destroyed cars in a movie with The Blues Brothers. Two years later, the architect behind 1974’s Gone in 60 Seconds would … Continue Reading The Junkman (1982) April, 30th 2023
I’ve just finished reading Hannibal by Thomas Harris. Some chapters were irritatingly short but sufficiently told an intense story culminating in Clarice becoming Hannibal’s cannibal lover. I struggled to imagine … Continue Reading Hannibal (2001) April 24th, 2023
Beau is Afraid is a masterpiece depicting, as faithfully as film allows, what it must be like to live with paranoid schizophrenia. I did not enjoy watching Beau is Afraid … Continue Reading Beau is Afraid (2023) April 23rd, 2023
I expected Eo to be a beautifully shot sappy story of a donkey suffering through a life as a service animal. Less like a seeing eye dog and more like … Continue Reading Eo (2022) April 10th, 2023
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