65 movie review: dino droppings
Adam Driver’s intensely focused, utterly unironic performance is the only saving grace of this movie of few ideas and little suspense, mystery, or excitement. There aren’t even that many dinosaurs.
M Night Shyamalan
Knock at the Cabin movie review: there appears to be an apocalypse happening
There is only one thing worse than an M. Night Shyamalan movie with a twist ending. And that is one without a twist ending. Feels like a faith-based movie trying to sneak in under a disingenuous wire.
behind the scenes: why I am such a huge honking disaster right now
tl;dr: I’m mentally and physically exhausted with pain and limitations to my life while I wait for hip-replacement surgery that is, at a minimum, months away. On top of all the other shit life has thrown at me the last few years…
loaded question: what 2023 films are you most looking forward to?
New year, tons of new movies coming our way! Here’s a list of some of the big 2023 titles we know about so far to get you started salivating…
Glass movie review: superhero ’splaining
Earnest and humorless, this is a faux-intellectual Comic Book Guy ponderously well-actually-ing us about shallow superhero tropes and clichés as if those are the most intriguing bits of these stories.
Split movie review: time for another round of “What the Hell Was M. Night Shyamalan Thinking?”
Lurid and squicky, Split treads water and keeps too many secrets on a dull path to the revelation of its self-satisfied cleverness.
spoiler alert: 2 reasons why The Visit’s ending doesn’t work
The ending might have worked going to grandma’s house once upon a time, but it doesn’t work in 2015.
The Visit movie review: grandma’s house (of horrors?)
Over the river and through the woods to yet another banal, anticlimactic attempt at storytelling from M. Night Shyamalan. And this time, it’s found-footage.
question of the day: What’s the worst movie ending ever?
It doesn’t necessarily have to be from a terrible film. I can imagine someone otherwise loving Citizen Kane who thinks the discovery of Rosebud’s identity at the end is howlingly idiotic.
After Earth (trailer)
Listen for that faux solemn Charlton Heston-esque voice in your head saying, “And the planet was known as Earth.”
