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Film Review – Atlas
Atlas (2024) is a massive misfire in almost every conceivable fashion. It’s a sci-fi actioner that fails to excite, provoke, or entertain. To say that it underwhelms in nearly all phases of execution would be an understatement. Worst of all, it wastes the talent of Jennifer Lopez.…
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Film Review – The Garfield Movie
The joy of the Garfield comic strip was in its simplicity. In just a few bite-sized portions, readers could ascertain the entire dynamic of the characters. Garfield was the wisecracking orange cat who loved lasagna. He treated the human Jon Arbuckle more as a roommate…
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Film Review – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
There is a pivotal scene early into Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) where the orangutan Raka (Peter Macon) shows a book to the chimpanzee Noa (Owen Teague). “It contains ideas,” Raka says, “The symbols have meaning.” It’s this exchange that best exemplifies the post…
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Film Review – The Fall Guy
Fresh off his Oscar-nominated turn in Barbie (2024), Ryan Gosling has returned with yet another exuberant, hilariously charismatic performance in The Fall Guy (2024). He plays Colt Seavers, a movie stunt performer who gets into some hot water with shady miscreants. If that sounds familiar to you, it’s because Gosling played…
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Film Review – Challengers
Director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, Suspiria) tackles the world of competitive tennis and complicated relationships in Challengers (2024), with a script by Justin Kuritzkes. Somehow, a trio of actors that most of us would not think to put together into this kind of film works (and it really works), but…
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Film Review – Boy Kills World
There are a lot of ideas running all throughout Boy Kills World (2023). Maybe too many. This is a delirious, hyperactive, and blood splattered revenge tale. It takes several concepts and references and tosses them into a melting pot of violence and mayhem. You maybe thinking, “Well,…
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Film Review – Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
The phrase “Less is More” simply does not exist in Zack Snyder’s vocabulary. He is a filmmaker obsessed with excess – making every shot of his films big, grand, and operatic. And while the approach does lend to some slick imagery – such as the opening…
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Film Review – Sasquatch Sunset
I’ll say this much: Sasquatch Sunset (2024) chooses a lane and sticks with it. Admittedly, the film should be admired for staying true to its gimmick and not wavering in the slightest, for better or worse. But I wonder if the result was worth the effort. The…
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