Captain Marvel (2019)
“You struggle to show your emotions.” Nowadays the origin story for a new superhero character has become an unenviable and arduous task. Most of Marvel’s mainstays have gotten the similar […]
Tag Archives: Science Fiction
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
“A warrior’s spirit needs a warrior’s body.” By alloying together the futuristic dystopia of Blade Runner with the flimsy romance elements of The Hunger Games, all while styling them both […]
Glass (2019)
“Maybe this will all make sense if I explain who I am.” As the final chapter in M. Night Shyamalan’s makeshift, stucco superhero trilogy, Glass builds an inspired and often beautiful […]
Bumblebee (2018)
“People can be terrible about things they don’t understand.” 2007’s Transformers was good fun, a blockbuster in the purest meaning of the phrase, and a big-budget adventure that was far […]
Bird Box (2018)
“The end of the world makes us do things.” Bird Box begins a few sequences shy of its final ending then jumps back in time 5 whole years. That’s a […]
Night of the Comet (1984)
“I hate days that start like this.” An ultra low-budget B-movie that doesn’t pretend to be anything other than an ultra low-budget B-movie, Night of the Comet stands out as both […]
Venom (2018)
“Any action is often better than no action.” While I can’t allow myself to admit that it’s so bad it’s good (mostly because I don’t believe in the phrase), Venom […]
Kin (2018)
“Everything that has ever been stolen was something that was just sitting there.” There’s a surprising amount of grittiness to Kin, a movie that presents a story perfectly suitable for the […]
The Meg (2018)
“There’s something out there.” A movie that would’ve been better suited as a bad SYFY channel feature than a $100 million+ budgeted Summer Blockbuster, The Meg spends most of its time doing […]
The Darkest Minds (2018)
“If they catch you, they’ll kill you.” With absolutely no originality and hardly any unique visual style, The Darkest Minds treats the massive drama at its center with no respect. Instead […]
