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 […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B Mission: Impossible has become one of the most surprisingly consistent and enjoyable film franchises going today, which is amazing considering that it started way back in 1996. I was freaking twelve years old when this series started, for crying out loud! And unlike James Bond, the main lead has never […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D Insidious: The Red Door breaks the tradition of odd-numbered Insidious films being any good. Following the last two entries that serves as prequels to the original movie, The Red Door finally provides a sequel to Insidious: Chapter 2. However, Chapter 2, which was essentially an unnecessary and prolonged epilogue to […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C As with everyone else my age, I grew up a huge Indiana Jones fan. I watched the hell out of the first three movies (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom being my marginal favorite; more on that in a minute) and I think it’s a travesty that the series […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C- I should begin by acknowledging that I am seemingly the only person in the world that doesn’t like these movies. It’s not that I think Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and its predecessor are terrible films. It’s just that I really, really don’t care. I don’t care about the Miles Morales […]