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Friday, April 26, 2024

Film Reviews

Film Reviews

Half Potions

Two years ago I observed that there are many different ways to make a Harry Potter movie, thanks to all the different directors who've...

Relic: Black Death

I couldn’t obtain a screener of Relic, so I strapped into a hazmat suit — okay, maybe a bit less than that — and...

Funny Games

When Heath Ledger is on screen during The Dark Knight, you can't look anywhere else. Part of this is because the uncategorizable Australian actor died...

Two Movies on Netflix

The Alamo Drafthouse in Denton is opening two films this week that have been on Netflix for some weeks now, after playing briefly in...

American Woman: Raw Sienna

It must have been in 2003 when I happened to catch a few episodes of a British comedy cop show called Keen Eddie. (I...

Tiny Nation House

Here’s a 94-minute found-footage horror movie that would have worked better as an 8-minute found-footage Funny or Die comedy sketch. They’re Watching, which opens...

Maiden Voyage

I am not a Star Trek fan. I hung out with a lot of them growing up, but I managed to miss all the...

Wrath of Man: H Is for Heat

Sometimes in life, you just want to see Jason Statham shooting people. My last few movie reviews have required me to be quite serious...
Yep, that’s Tyrese Gibson leaping onto a speeding car to avoid being crushed by a tank in Fast & Furious 6.

The Crash U.K.

’Round about the end of 2011, I started hearing some serious film writers cop to enjoying Fast Five, the fifth chapter in the Fast...

Suspiria: Dance of Death

First, a confession: I’m not a big fan of Dario Argento’s Suspiria. The production design and the music in the 1977 horror film are...