Author: Evan Kern
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Anna (2019) – Film Review – “Back In the USSR”
I can’t believe I’m saying this…This movie is actually worse than Red Sparrow, though not for the same reasons.
Let me explain.
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Rocketman (2019) – Film Review – “Stand-Still (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah)”
I don’t really have a frame of reference for this film. I was never a huge Elton John fan—I like his music, sure, but I only rocked out to a bare few, chief among them: The one hinted at in the vague title of this review.
That said, I had to take a lot of this viewing at face-value…and also with a pinch of salt.
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John Wick, Chapter 3: Parabellum (2019) – Film Review – “Smitten With Wick-en”
I guess it’s safe to say—and without spoiling anything—that this is not the end of John Wick (the franchise, not necessarily the character). With the upcoming The Continental TV series, in which Wick is rumored to make various appearances, the franchise is far from over.
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The Intruder (2019) – Film Review – “Not Welcome Here”
Like I said to my friend whom went with me, during our post-viewing discussion, I never planned to rush out this review after I’d seen the movie. Even now—days later—I’m not totally enthusiastic about putting it out in the world. All of this is just fluff, to be honest, because I have very little to say about this movie. Upping my word count, as it were. Filling space. Bloating. Extra. One more… Sassafras. Okay, let’s get into this. For real this time.
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The Curse of La Llorona (2019) – Film Review – “Ghost of A Genre”
At the time of writing—April 24th, 2019—this movie’s made almost $56M, global box office; figure production and marketing combo costs…looking at around $38M and some change, net profit. That’s…pretty decent, for an R-rated horror film actually swinging for a demographic target. If the studio had aimed for a PG-13 rating, they could’ve widened that broad net to the teenie crowd.
But, I digress…
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Rewind Review – Aquaman (2018) – “All Hail…King Arthur!”
Who says talking to fish ain’t cool?
Starting off clunky, but picking up and finishing strong, Aquaman does what was long-thought impossible: It made the character cool.
Jason Momoa’s charisma shines through in his performance.
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Shazam! (2019) – Film Review – “Lightning In A Bottle”
See, this is what should be happening more among the DC line-up: Having fun, and experimenting with, properties and titles.
Shazam! wasn't really top-tier, to anyone who hadn’t heard of him before the hype-train started rolling for this film…all the way back when Dwayne Johnson—of course—was slated to play the titular hero. Like Marvel, DC has their backroom lounge selection of heroes and villains (and, to be quite honest, I really wanna see Condiment King on the silver screen, now!!), but that works in their favor, with this one. Director David F. Sandberg’s strength isn’t with horror—never saw Annabelle, but the feature-length iteration of Lights Out was pretty trash—it’s grounded in emotional character pieces, weaving entertaining stories that also hit us in the feels. -
Captain Marvel (2019) – Film Review – “The Heroine We Need RN”
Feeling a tad rusty, here…
I guess the best way to start off (if you couldn’t tell by the title) is to say…I liked this film. Yea, usually that’s something one says at the end of a text, but you’re here for the meat of the matter—the why, the what.
From the trailers, Captain Marvel seemed the bog-standard superhero origin story we’re used to in the MCU. I also got the sense that the title character, herself, would be very dull, over-powered, generally-uninteresting. But this statement above all else, folks, is why we must see movies for ourselves; if we went by trailers, or what other critics have to say, the film industry would have gone belly-up a long time ago. -
Glass (2019) – Film Review
I’ll be the first to admit this: My expectations for Glass were pretty high, even before the trailers dropped. Unbreakable is one of M. Night Shyamalan’s first works—riding the coat-tails of The Sixth Sense, to be sure, but a solid film, in its own merit. One of a good number, before “the crash”. Congruently, 2016 (or 2017, depending on what source is referenced) gave us Split—a stand-alone terror piece that hinted at something more happening behind the scenes—a true awakening of real-world “superheroes”, for lack of a better term…and practically no one saw the mid-credits twist of Bruce Willis’s David Dunn showing up as sequel-bait. All that on the table, this had to be the Shyamalan movie to pull him back from his rut—the one to resurrect him as not only a student of the masters—Hitchcock, chief among those inspirations—but an icon, in his own right.
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Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles (2018) – Film Review
Ah… What a way to kick off the Christmas season—come home from gorging ourselves on turkey and pie, postpone picking up the tree until the next day, kick back on […]
