The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- The Creator is a movie that I wanted to love, but I only managed to like it. From director Gareth Edwards, who brought us Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the 2014 Godzilla, The Creator is a unicorn in modern Hollywood: a major sci-fi release that isn’t a remake, […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D- Last October, director David Gordon Green gave us one of the worst horror sequels ever made with Halloween Ends. This October, Green returns with another one of the worst horror sequels ever made with The Exorcist: Believer. If anything positive can come of this ridiculously misguided film, it’s my hope […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B+ First, a brief tangent: Why is everyone pronouncing the title of this movie as “Saw Ex,” as in pronouncing the letter “X?” This is the tenth Saw movie, so pronounce it as “Saw Ten.” When Saw XI inevitably arrives, are we going to refer to it as “Saw Ex Eye?” […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D+ I feel like I review this movie five or six times a year. The feature film debut of Indian American director Bishal Dutta, It Lives Inside attempts to inject horror characters from Hindu and Buddhist mythologies into modern horror. That’s not a bad idea and could introduce a new slate […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: F Yikes. Back in the 90s, it was commonplace for action sequels to be relegated to straight-to-video releases once interest had dropped, the main stars were no longer returning and the budgets were reduced to the level of a high school play. For instance, there are three sequels to Bloodsport that […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C Following Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh’s third go-around adapting Agatha Christie’s mystery novels featuring detective Hercule Poirot. Refreshingly, Branagh has opted to adapt one of Christie’s less famous Poirot novels this time. Based on the 1969 novel Hallowe’en […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D This is the ninth Conjuring universe movie and I think we’re at the point where we can all agree that this just needs to end. I’ve never been a big fan of this franchise, but the last few entries have made the earlier films look like downright masterpieces in comparison. […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ I’m a sucker for a good, old-fashioned vigilante movie and the original The Equalizer (from 2014) is one of the better examples of the subgenre from the last decade. The film also fits nicely into the “normal looking guy is actually a trained killer” subgenre that has been oddly popular […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D- First, I want to mention that I had intended to see The Last Voyage of the Demeter on this particular week, but the only showtime for it at my local theater was at 10:30pm. I understand that it bombed at the box office, but perhaps its numbers would have been slightly […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A Christopher Nolan made perhaps the best superhero movie ever with The Dark Knight and is now one of the only hopes to save adult cinema from the superhero-dominated wasteland that is the modern movie theater. Oppenheimer is not only an excellent movie, but it’s the kind of movie that Hollywood usually […]