Noelle (2019)
“I would like to do what you do.” Noelle, for better and more so for worse, unintentionally captures what it’s like to open gifts from slightly distant relatives during the […]
Category Archives: Fantasy
Doctor Sleep (2019)
“They come back.” At its core, Doctor Sleep takes Stephen King’s novel (which I admittedly have not read) and flips the pages into a supernatural horror story built for the […]
Hocus Pocus (1993)
“So the legends are true.” It’s baffling to think that Hocus Pocus, possibly one of the most definitive cult classics of all-time, didn’t make much of a splash during its initial […]
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
“You may remember this story.” When you boil and distill Maleficent: Mistress of Evil down to its most essential parts, it’s really no surprise that the film tries to be […]
Yesterday (2019)
“I’m trying to live outside the conventional concept of time.” For all of the messiness and the massive lapses in logic that occur early and often and throughout the entirety […]
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
“It doesn’t get any better. It just gets worse.” As far as classic Kaiju monster mashes are concerned, Godzilla: King of the Monsters delivers the necessary levels of massive entertainment. […]
Little (2019)
“It needs to be big. It needs to make noise.” Much to my dismay, Little is a mostly mean movie which, for far too long before the story does a […]
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
“”I know I said no more surprises, but I was really hoping to pull off one last one.” To say that I’ve never seen another film quite like Avengers: Endgame would […]
Hellboy (2019)
“Something terrible happens here.” There’s so little to like about the rougher, rowdier, and altogether disappointing Hellboy that it’s hard to even stomach how the few parts that function well […]
Dumbo (2019)
“I can’t see the nets.” It’s hard to watch the 2019 update of Dumbo and not think, “what’s the point?” The animated version of the film already exists, and that […]
