When a movie promises first contact between humans and aliens, I pay attention. This one, even with its weird title, looked like it might be dramatic and creepy, and perhaps thrilling. No thrills surfaced but it does maintain a creep […]
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Strange World (2022) ☆ ☆
Strange World is a wildly innovative film that, sadly, is less than it should be. Much less. Clearly the folks at Disney didn’t know how market it because even the first previews for it seemed off, as if they didn’t know […]
Continue reading »Ticket to Paradise (2022) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Ticket to Paradise is a familiar romantic comedy about the divorced parents of a young woman who decides to get married herself, and their efforts to change her mind. Ol Parker’s film is as formulaic as one can imagine: the […]
Continue reading »Black Adam (2022) ☆ ☆
Newest among the DC Superhero crew is Teth-Adam, an Egyptian slave-cum-immortal who is even angrier all the time than Batman. Summoned back into action after a five thousand year nap, Teth-Adam bends the rules about being a superhero and finds […]
Continue reading »The Batman (2022) ☆
People and their opinions can be typed in many ways: do you prefer meat or vegetables? Ginger or Mary Ann? Republican or Democrat? Batman or Superman? For me, it has always been Superman. As a kid I think I liked […]
Continue reading »Halloween Ends (2022) ☆ 1/2
The long-running horror series is — yet again — finally coming to an end, and that is a good thing. After a great beginning there is no question that the Michael Myers saga has run its course. It’s about damn […]
Continue reading »Lou (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
I often opine about modern action movies which (I feel) often exploit their characters in favor of bone breaking fight choreography and unrealistic violence. Well, here is one with solid reasoning for its action, which is presented in realistic fashion. […]
Continue reading »See How They Run (2022) ☆ ☆
Satirical murder mysteries are tough to make, tough to sell and, in this case, tough to enjoy, even when the foundational source material is rich (as it is here). Aficionados of Agatha Christie may find more merit than I did, […]
Continue reading »Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
A few months ago the first Star Trek movie was given theatrical showing and I saw it and subsequently reviewed it as a Recent Release. Now I am doing the same for its sequel, enjoying its 40th anniversary at theaters this […]
Continue reading »Bullet Train (2022) ☆ 1/2
Few things are more deflating to a moviegoer like myself than a movie which proves that newer movies like this one are not being made for me. This stylized, ultra-violent, ironical comedy is clearly made for people who love Quentin Tarantino’s […]
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