REVIEW – “M3GAN”: An AI Generated Child’s Play
The first new film of a calendar year, the first thing audiences may catch in that figurative January truck stop will often bear the potential to set the tone for…
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REVIEW – “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”: Fearless Feline Revives a Familiar Franchise
If I were to have been quizzed on where every major animation house would stack up at year’s end, my guesses would have all been proven so wrong. Particularly with…
REVIEW – “Violent Night”: Seasonal Spats, Revisited
It’s often a dime a dozen whenever a new holiday season film arrives on the scene. With any Hallmark original, that may be taken literally. Rarely in this era does…
REVIEW – “The Black Phone”: Derrickson, Hawke Dial up a Very Weird Number
Hollywood has a way of making or breaking career trajectories. Especially if the subject causes their own sabotage by way of unlucky moves. Last we had seen of writer/director Scott…
REVIEW – “Jurassic World Dominion”: Dinos Rule, As Does Franchise-Capping Monotony
It’s an awkward notion when easily invested in a film based on the goodwill it can generate. Only to remember what mistakes it’s made before reaching a point of satisfactory…
REVIEW – “The Bad Guys”: DreamWorks Hits Home Run with Action Caper Homage
2022 is quickly shaping up into another rather exciting year for the realm of animation. Strictly as an art form, and not just a “genre” of film. If one were…
REVIEW – “Ambulance” – Bay Thinks Fast with Fun, Mindless Chase Flick
In his fourth decade of crafting glossy whip-rounds that tend to re-draw the lines of cinema more as entertainment than as an artful medium, or popcorn versus a snuck-in meal,…
REVIEW – “Marry Me”: Expect Second Thoughts before Saying ‘Yes’
2022 may already be an impossibly weird year if its first romantic comedy is the equivalent of stepping through an internet “wayback archive.” I’m surely not the first to claim…
REVIEW – “The 355”: Girl Power Spy Thriller (Nearly) Fulfills Its Mission
Just as there is no rest for films arriving in theaters, right after the holidays no less, there is never a moment’s break for the realm of international espionage. Its…
REVIEW – “Sing 2”: Illumination Sequel Patiently Goes All In on Grand Spectacle
2016 feels like a bit of a simpler time, doesn’t it? We were less worried about personal safety, and more on the trust we place in governmental authority. It was…