In a way, the timing of Glass couldn’t be better. When M. Night Shyamalan made his superhero subversion Unbreakable in 2000, he couldn’t possibly have predicted the current dominion superhero movies have over the film industry. With the advent of Glass, he’s had eighteen years of new cultural DNA to analyze for the long-gestating conclusion of his trilogy. Sadly, Glass ends up being the worst movie of the three. Continue reading
If nothing else, The Cloverfield Paradox is an interesting – if dubiously effective – experiment in advertising. Informing the masses of its existence via a short Super Bowl ad, it attracted a fair 750,000 viewers later that night. The series itself remains something of a novelty in the age of producers endlessly mining the same vein to diminishing returns: a loose series of movies that share the same name and universe, but are hugely unalike in terms of tone, scale, and genre. Cloverfield was a found-footage kaiju movie, 10 Cloverfield Lane was a claustrophobic thriller, and now we have The Cloverfield Paradox, a…space movie? Continue reading
Welcome back, readers! I hope you all had a happy holiday, and consider this a moderate spoiler warning.
Let me start by saying this: I didn’t like The Force Awakens. I found it to be a shameless rip-off of A New Hope, as well as the embodiment of the most cynical accusations ever leveled against the series, helmed by none other than marketing genius and professional franchise-milker J.J. Abrams. Thankfully, The Last Jedi is an improvement over that clunker in every respect. Continue reading
Those of you who read my best of 2015 list know that the original Kingsman was one of the year’s pleasant surprises, so naturally I was excited for the sequel. Does it live up to the hype, or is it just another retread? The answer is yes. Continue reading
Subgenre: Monster / Slasher
Summary: After years of hibernation, an evil spirit returns to feed on human flesh. Continue reading