Monsters of another sort lurk in the ocean-going drama Deep Fear, monsters of a far more realistic and menacing sort than the kaiju and ghosts of the previous two reviewed movies. Sharks. Big, hungry, aggressive sharks. These apparitions are what keep […]
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) ☆ ☆
As much as I enjoyed the recent Godzilla Minus One, a monster movie as absolutely rooted in reality as it could be (considering it is about Godzilla), I cannot say the same about this new American monster mash. It goes in […]
Continue reading »Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) ☆ ☆
I was looking forward to this new “Ghostbusters” adventure after really enjoying 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which I felt was a wonderfully fresh, nostalgic and emotionally powerful re-introduction to that story. This new movie tries to conjure the same type of nostalgia, […]
Continue reading »Dune, Part Two (2024) ☆ ☆ ☆
I don’t love director Denis Villeneuve’s science-fiction oeuvre because, unlike, say, Steven Spielberg’s, Villeneuve’s movies are more intellectual and symbolic than emotional adventures of wonder. Since Sicario (2015), the writer-director has worked exclusively in the sci-fi domain — Arrival, Blade […]
Continue reading »Labyrinth (1986) ☆ 1/2 (review 2)
It has been suggested to me that my personal aversion to fantasy films overwhelms my earlier review of Labyrinth, even negating whatever worth it may have. I cannot argue that point; it is clear and obviously true. In my reviews […]
Continue reading »Madame Web (2024) ☆ 1/2
There must be an awful lot of comic book material, weird characters with weird superpowers and such, which has not been adapted to film yet. This is one such adaptation, I think, and one which really should have been avoided. […]
Continue reading »Labyrinth (1986) ☆ 1/2 (review 1)
I saw this 1986 fantasy for the first time this week, as it was meant to be seen, in a theater. Thanks to Fathom Events, certain films of the past are returning to the screen for limited runs each month. […]
Continue reading »Ordinary Angels (2024) ☆ ☆ ☆
This is one of those “you would never believe this story if it weren’t true” movie stories which inspire people to write, produce and act in them because those stories have dramatic resonance precisely because they did happen, against all […]
Continue reading »Anyone But You (2023) ☆ ☆ ☆
A surprise hit late last year is this romantic, or perhaps unromantic comedy, which seems to have caught everyone unawares. It was re-released for Valentine’s Day with a brief but very enjoyable section of bloopers, outtakes and more singing by […]
Continue reading »Lisa Frankenstein (2024) ☆ ☆
This seems to be the season for horny reanimated people, what with Poor Things and now Lisa Frankenstein, both of which detail with sexual maturity and, well, reconstituted people. Why? I have no idea. I didn’t really understand Poor Things and I don’t […]
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