I cannot understand why DC Comics released the all-star mess Suicide Squad in 2016 (which I gave one-and-a-half stars), and then, five years later, releases another movie with basically the same characters as — The Suicide Squad. Where is the originality? Certainly […]
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) ☆ 1/2
I have been upfront about my indifference concerning cinematic fantasy and magical adventure, so it should not be surprising that I haven’t enjoyed these Fantastic Beasts films at all. To be fair and honest, I felt the same way about the […]
Continue reading »The Lost City (2022) ☆ ☆
Romantic adventure comedies are always a good bet, or so the studios must think, because things like The Lost City are occasionally foisted upon the moviegoing public, and sometimes they do very well. Certainly the cast is appealing, and the script, […]
Continue reading »The Survivalist (2021) ☆ 1/2
We’re still feeling the effects of the COVID pandemic and there have already been movies made about it, including at least a couple that explore how much worse it could have been. One of these is The Survivalist, a low, low-budget […]
Continue reading »Dog (2022) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I’m a sucker for animal movies, especially when the animal in question can help improve the life of the human attached to it. The distaff version of this retiring service animal type of story, Megan Leavey, was pretty solid a few […]
Continue reading »Deadlock (2021) ☆ ☆
I was unaware of this unfortunately routine action flick until after the recent diagnosis of Bruce Willis’ aphasia. Then I checked out his recent filmography and was surprised to see to many straight-to-video or straight-to-streaming titles from a guy who […]
Continue reading »Bold 2021 Academy Awards Predictions
The main reason I began the print version of Filmbobbery in 1999 was to cover the Academy Awards, both before and after. For a couple of years previously I had put together Oscar preview and aftermath newsletters, with in-depth nomination […]
Continue reading »Cry Macho (2021) ☆ ☆ ☆
Clint Eastwood is 91 years old, and he is still making movies. Pretty good ones. It’s kind of a shock to see him in Cry Macho because he is, well, frail. His character still throws a punch and tames a bucking […]
Continue reading »The French Dispatch (2021) ☆
Have you every picked up a magazine of some sort, glanced at it and realized immediately that it just held no interest for you whatsoever? That’s how I feel about The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson’s new movie, his love letter to […]
Continue reading »Outside the Wire (2021) ☆ ☆
One of the newer Netflix movies that is available is almost prescient in its setting — Outside the Wire is set in Ukraine, where the country is torn apart in civil war, albeit one in 2036. Most of the country is […]
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