Hey all, I know it’s been a little while since I’ve posted, so I thought I’d give a quick series of capsule reviews (most of them from my hype index) for the movies I’ve seen so far this summer. Hope you enjoy them. Continue reading
2017
Wonder Woman
That’s twice now that I’ve been wrong on the hype index: I thought Alien: Covenant was going to be pretty good and Wonder Woman was going to be weak; turns out that it’s quite the opposite. Wonder Woman isn’t a game changer by any means, but it’s a solid and (relatively) fresh entry in the superhero genre. Continue reading
Alien: Covenant is a Welcher
Alien lays egg, egg hatches facehugger, facehugger hugs face, chestburster bursts chest. The Xenomorph lifecycle used to be so simple, yet with Ridley Scott’s latest two movies it’s becoming needlessly complicated, not to mention self-contradicting. The same could be said of Alien: Covenant’s plot anytime it attempts to expand the franchise’s lore – the same misguided choice that ended up sinking Prometheus. Thankfully it never hits the lows of that mess, but at times it comes dangerously close. Continue reading
The Fast and Fentress 2017 Summer Movie Hype Index
The time has come for another slew of Summer movies. Now it’s time to break down the good, the bad, and the ugly of this year’s offerings. Continue reading
Movie Review: The Fate of the Furious
Watching The Fate of the Furious, I found myself wondering (not for the first time), how did we get here? How did a straightforward street racing movie morph into an eight-film behemoth whose action sequences’ sheer scale put other blockbusters to shame? But for the first time, I found myself a little bored of asking that question, since the series has now been doing it for six years or so. But inevitable repetition aside, how does The Fate of the Furious stack up in the series hierarchy? Continue reading
The Belko Experiment
The Belko Experiment is a fine example of a movie that makes good on exactly what it promises: office drones murdering each other. If you want richly realized characters or narrative subtlety, you’re in the wrong theater. Continue reading