It’s odd that Darkest Hour and Dunkirk were released in the same year because they are perfect companion pieces for each other. Essentially recounting the same period of time, both films portray the early stages of World War II and culminate in the evacuation of British forces at Dunkirk. But while Dunkirk (the film) […]
Dunkirk is the sadly little-known story of the evacuation of Allied troops from northern France during World War 2. Quite honestly, I was only vaguely aware of this significant part of WW2. As with all heavy metal fans, I am very familiar with Churchill’s famous speech (“We shall go on to the end. We […]
I love horror movies and I particularly love slasher movies. When I was a kid, slasher movies dominated the horror genre, but they are pretty rare these days. In the 3+ years that I have been going to the movies every week, I have not seen a single slasher movie in a theater as […]
I was really looking forward to Hostiles because I love westerns and it’s a genre that we don’t see very often anymore. Moreover, a western from the director of Black Mass and starring Christian Bale? Sign me the fuck up. Now having seen it, I’m almost depressed by my lack of feeling toward this […]
The original Guardians of the Galaxy is my favorite Marvel Universe movie and probably my favorite movie of 2014 (either that or John Wick). I was completely unfamiliar with them until the movie, but I loved the characters and the tone. The film reveled in unabashed wackiness in a way that reminded me of […]
Ghost in the Shell is based on a Japanese comic book/anime series that started in the late 80s. I haven’t read the comics or seen the anime and I wish that I had because then I might have something more to say here. The hardest movies to review are mediocre ones because they don’t […]
I am continually baffled by the popularity of this series. It’s not that I don’t like dumb action movies. If you want to run a marathon of c-grade Van Damme and Seagal movies, I’m in. I’ll bring the beer and we’ll have ourselves a great night. The problem here is that the characters in […]
This is the kind of movie that makes me wonder how studio executives got their jobs. Geostorm was originally filmed in 2014 but had disastrous test screenings in 2015. So, two years after filming had wrapped, the studio brought in a new director and producer to oversee extensive reshoots, resulting in some characters being […]
Flatliners is the kind of remake that I’m not, in theory, opposed to seeing. While the 1990 film is decent, there is ample room for improvement. The original has a strong concept, but did little with it and was overly serious (even though the sight of Kiefer Sutherland repeatedly getting his ass kicked by […]
Friend Request is a German production that was filmed in South Africa in 2014 and has been available on DVD in Europe for the last couple of years. If that isn’t a recipe for a quality theatrical release, then I don’t know what is. At the same time that this was being made, there […]