I’m not the biggest fan of animated entertainment, but I have consistently enjoyed the “Wallace and Gromit” stories (and other projects) of Nick Park, the British writer, director and animator whose sense of humor is nicely aligned with my own. […]
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Afterburn (2025) ☆ ☆
Another futuristic tale that shares its distrust of governmental authority is Afterburn, which discards its pseudo-science-fictiony premise pretty quickly to get to pure and obvious action. The content and style of this post-apocalyptic scenario is pretty similar to those which populated […]
Continue reading »The Tomorrow War (2021) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I used to keep on top of major film releases but in recent years have lost my way. Five years after its release I am just now catching up to the science-fiction alien invasion adventure The Tomorrow War, which is the […]
Continue reading »Train Dreams (2025) ☆ ☆
I’m way behind on current films but I did catch Train Dreams last night. I didn’t know what to expect, which is often for the best, but what I saw was not as satisfying as I had hoped. Clint Bentley’s quiet, […]
Continue reading »Moving On (2022) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I’ve been complaining about dark comedies which wallow in bloodletting. Well, here’s one that keeps the bloodletting to an absolute minimum but still packs a punch. Instead of one person shredding a horde of unimportant assailants we have two women […]
Continue reading »The Naked Gun (2025) ☆ ☆
I’ve recently been ranting about the downside of violent dark comedies. Well here is a genuine comedy, and it isn’t much better. Comedy is a personal matter, and silliness like this film is just not my cup of tea. The […]
Continue reading »Fight or Flight (2025) ☆
Several reviews ago I vented a bit about dark comedy movies with brutal violence. I was unhappy with the amount of grotesque brutality in Novocaine (and other movies like Bullet Train that treat killing and maiming as entertainment). Well, this thing puts […]
Continue reading »My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
After enjoying the huge success that was My Big Fat Greek Wedding back in 2002, and to a lesser extent, its 2016 sequel, I only recently saw the third entry in its Portokalos family saga. I was surprised that a third movie […]
Continue reading »Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) ☆ 1/2
This was not what I expected. My only exposure to “Section 31” in “Star Trek” lore was Admiral Marcus’ reference to it in Star Trek: Into Darkness. So, not knowing that “Section 31” is included in at least two of the later […]
Continue reading »Novocaine (2025) ☆ ☆
A recent movie trend (that I dislike, if not despise) is the brutally violent dark comedy. Such films attempt to frame their mostly criminal-related plots in veiled comedy terms, with amoral characters killing and maiming at will and insisting that […]
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