Movie Reviews

  The advertising for Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Digger made it seem like a satirical political comedy in the vein of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, and that is part of the movie. But around the half-hour mark, the film becomes something completely different than what the advertising and the first act showed. To avoid spoilers, I will not go into what this shift is, but it’s bizarre and frankly unnecessary,…

  Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is one of those great movies where the weight of the world slowly collapses on a character, and we watch as they do everything in their power to keep it all up and do everything right, but struggle not to be crushed. These types of movies work best when they have a strong performance at their center, and great writing with a lot of emotion and thought-provoking ideas,…

  My relationship to Resident Evil is purely cinematic. I am not a player of the iconic video game series that has been scaring its players since 1996, and all I know of the franchise is everything that has been in the Milla Jovovich-led action-horror films that kicked off in 2002. All I really remember from those films, besides Jovovich kicking ass, is that there is a chemical outbreak in the fictional city of Raccoon…

  Don’t let the Cannes Film Festival logo fool you into thinking what kind of film Na Hong-jin’s Hope is. This is closer to an American action spectacle than a Palme d’Or nominee. Hope is a non-stop, action-packed blockbuster about monsters terrorizing a small town and the underqualified police and townspeople trying to stop it. Sounds like something right out of a Michael Bay movie. In the remote town of Hope Harbor, strange happenings begin;…

  The fact that Coyote vs Acme exists and that I am reviewing the film is a cinematic miracle. Originally slated to be released in July of 2023, Warner Bros, the original studio releasing the film, decided to shelve the completed film entirely for a tax write-off. Seemingly gone from existence, Ketchup Entertainment bought the distribution rights in March of 2025 and has now officially released the film in theaters. I don’t normally go into…

  Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars doesn’t feel like a complete movie. Yes, it has actors, production value, and visual effects, and there was a script for the film, but there is no connective story or depth. It just felt like a lot of scenes placed together in an order that is digestible for an audience. It deals with a lot of heavy subjects and has characters who could have been interesting, but it’s like…

    Ice Cream Man was self-financed by the film’s director, Eli Roth. Following his last film, Borderlands, a certified flop in every regard, Roth wanted to do away with the studio system and executive oversight and make a film without anyone giving him any notes. He also chose to release Ice Cream Man unrated, giving himself free rein over the blood, gore, and chaos of his newest splatter-horror film. While Roth isn’t the first…

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the 38th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a spectacular movie and one of the best post-Avengers: Endgame MCU movies. It perfectly balances spectacle and character, resulting in a film that is exciting and emotional. It is the best Tom Holland-led Spider-Man movie, and the best live-action Spider-Man movie since the Sam Raimi films of the 2000s. Spider-Man: Brand New Day picks up after the events of Spider-Man:…

Christopher Nolan has crafted the definitive cinematic version of Homer’s The Odyssey. While the competition isn’t exactly tough – besides the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where Art Thou?, other adaptations of The Odyssey have largely been television miniseries – I don’t think there is a filmmaker today, or maybe ever, who could have brought the scale and scope of The Odyssey to the big screen other than Nolan. He understands the grand nature of Homer’s…

  The Toy Story franchise has always been about one thing: the toys. The franchise, which was started over thirty years ago and is now on its fifth installment, has always found Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Mr. Potato Head, Hamm, and the whole gang on some adventure to ultimately get back to their owner, Andy, in the first three films, or Bonnie in the last two. Whether it was being held hostage by a psychotic toy-torturer…