Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020)
“I think it’s time for a new story.” There’s so much magic and humanity on display in Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey that it’s almost hard to formally criticize, let […]
Category Archives: Fantasy
The Old Guard (2020)
“We fight for what we think is right.” One of Netflix’s strongest original films so far this year and one of the very few overall which actually demands a proper […]
Artemis Fowl (2020)
“Get the four leaf clover out of here.” Maddening, gaudy, and downright confusing from the awkward start to the clumsy finish, Artemis Fowl seems to have been a failed endeavor […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
“You’re haunted.” If you’re a die-hard Star Wars fan and you’re about to read this, it should be known that I personally do not feel any which way about this […]
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 […]
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. […]
