Category: Reviews
REVIEW: The Equalizer 3 (2023)
If 2023 has proven anything, it’s that giving people what they want leads to success. Barbie is the most glaring example, an expected hit that turned into a phenomenon by pleasing its target audience. Oppenheimer did much the same, making a thoughtful movie for people craving one. Now, The Equa...
Read MoreREVIEW: Ahsoka Season 1, Episode 3, “Time to Fly”
*SPOILERS* In “Time to Fly,” Ahsoka resumes Sabine’s training. Meanwhile, Hera asks Mon Mothma for additional resources. This request is denied as Ahsoka and Sabine drop out of hyperspace and encounter an ambush. They escape Morgan Elsbeth’s blockade but are forced to hide on...
Read MoreREVIEW: Gran Turismo (2023)
The good part about Hollywood being stuck in a creative slump is the surprise of finding an unexpected gem while mining through the coal passing as entertainment. I had no interest in seeing Gran Turismo; I never played the video game or its sequels because racing games don’t appeal to me, and a m...
Read MoreREVIEW: Ahsoka – Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2: “Master and Apprentice” and “Toil and Trouble”
*SPOILERS* “Master and Apprentice ” finds Ahsoka seeking a map while Morgan Elsbeth is broken out of jail by two mysterious Force wielders, Baylan and Shin. Ahsoka reunites with Hera Syndulla and then Sabine Wren, the latter of whom she seeks to recruit. Sabine unlocks the map, but Shin ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Blue Beetle (2023)
However bad you think Blue Beetle is, it’s worse. I was surprised; I figured it would be a dull but fairly innocuous superhero movie, forgettable but harmless. It isn’t; it’s one of the most aggressively annoying, poorly written, badly plotted films in recent memory, not so much derivative of ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Heart of Stone (2023)
What is the ratio of times you’ve really enjoyed a Netflix movie vs. times you’ve cursed yourself for starting one? It’s got to be around 1:100, right? I mean, on the good side, there’s The Irishman, both Extractions, and The Gray Man until the last ten or fifteen minutes destroyed it. The b...
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