Tag: review
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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 […]
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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 […]
