Tag: film
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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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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 […]
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Robin Hood (2018) – Film Review
Duh, silly Evan… It just occurred to me the other night, while taking my notes, that this is one of those instances where I have to put the parenthetical release […]
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Overlord (2018) – Film Review
“The story of two American soldiers behind enemy lines on D-Day.” That’ll draw in—and infuriate—the veterans, this remembrance weekend… They don’t play “Hell’s Bells” one time in this whole feature. […]
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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) – A Top 5 List
Where to begin? I’m not going to sugar-coat with an intro on this one. This film is, hands-down, fantastic. One of my favorites of 2018, to be sure. The music, […]
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HallowRewind Review – Terrifier (2017)
Well…that was disturbing. I’m content, though. I didn’t click onto Terrifier (currently on Netflix, at the time of writing) expecting a master-class horror piece. It’s Halloween—I want gore, ghouls, and glucose. With this […]
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Halloween (2018) – Film Review
The Halloween franchise has defined my idea of schlocky slasher since I was a kid. AMC’s FearFest is where I first discovered Carpenter’s 1978 classic, and it’s been a close, […]
