The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C Speak No Evil is a remake of the Danish film of the same name from 2022. It may seem unnecessary to remake a movie from just two years ago and, yes, I wouldn’t necessarily call this movie “necessary.” However, I was genuinely wondering how this material would be updated for […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D- My trip to the theater to see Trap marked the 10th anniversary of when I started going to the movies every week back in August 2014, when this compulsion all started with the godawful Michael Bay reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A lot has happened in the last ten […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C The Watchers is the directorial debut of Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of M. Night Shyamalan. If you didn’t know that going into the film, you would likely assume that this was made by M. Night himself or someone trying to copy him because, for better or worse, this feels like […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ I.S.S. is one of those movies that doesn’t live up to its own concept. Coming from a relatively unknown director (Gabriela Cowperthwaite) and featuring a relatively unknown cast (although I’ll elaborate on that), this is a movie that had me very intrigued by the trailer and ultimately a bit let […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- Since I go to the movies every week, Sanctuary provided a valuable service in my life by giving me something other than the remake of The Little Mermaid to see in this particular week. I had somewhat resigned myself to seeing the latest entry in Disney’s trend of self-desecration before this […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D Hypnotic, a new film from director Robert Rodriguez, is just a mess. In a way, though, it’s an intriguing mess. This film starts as a fairly entertaining cop thriller and then goes off the frigging rails with so many plot twists that I couldn’t remember how the movie started by the […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C I had very mixed feelings go into the theater to watch Cocaine Bear, as I’m not usually a fan of what I have dubbed “meme movies.” A meme movie is something that is sold entirely on a ridiculous and/or stupid premise and is designed to trend on Twitter because idiots […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D For better or worse, M. Night Shyamalan’s filmography is largely comprised of movies that would conceptually sound amazing as two-sentence summaries of proposed Twilight Zone episodes. He is a master of coming of with “what if?” scenarios and twist endings. Unfortunately, extending those concepts to feature-length movies has often been […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C- Infinity Pool is the new film from director Brandon Cronenberg, son of the great David Cronenberg (probably best known for The Fly, Scanners, and A History of Violence). I moderately enjoyed Brandon’s previous film Possessor, even though its similarities to Inception were often distracting. Infinity Pool is, unfortunately, a bit […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ Missing harkens back to a (thankfully) short-lived trend from 2014-2018. The thought process at the time was simple: If members of Gen Z find it so difficult to look away from their phones for two hours, let’s make movies that simulate the riveting experience of staring at a phone. So, […]