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I’m kind of in shock that this wasn’t terrible. I actually enjoyed the typical Jared Hess moments and Jack Black deserves all the love for how he gives EVERY OUNCE OF HIS BEING for this movie. Is it a good performance? Not really, but man, get you an actor with this kind of golden retriever energy.
Just about as gobbeldigoopy as a standard Marvel or Star Wars lore dump… but I didn’t hate it! I kinda get why the gen z’ers dig this. Don’t get the brain rot chicken jockey moment though.
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Calling this propaganda for the industrial military complex is like saying Schindler’s List promotes online listicles.
It’s hard hitting, but I miss the ambigue nature of Civil War. Even tough it doesn’t take time to point it out, you can’t but think some dimwitted people would scream ‘Murica whilst double fisting a bald eagle.
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I’m all here to see Jack Quaid in more leading roles and the John Wick from Aldi sequences are good fun and not for the squimish, but in between those fights things feel off and drawn out.
Could of easily cut 30 mins from the runtime for a tighter, high octane experience.
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Interesting story about the Deep South, great musical, average vampire movie.
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Like a lot of Black Mirror episodes, the idea is great, but execution is lacklustre. It overstays its welcome halfway its 75 minute runtime and Issa Rae gives a performance so weak she feels miscast.
Fun idea, but it goes nowhere
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If you’re a fan of the re-imagined Mickey Mouse cartoons of Paul Rudish this is an absolute must watch. The fact that this movie exists in a post tax write off Warner brothers world is a miracle.
Its maybe not the most revolutionary take on animation or storytelling, but its silly, looney, hand drawn and I want more of it!
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Balances a tightrope between comedy and drama so gracefully and sticks the landing with the emotional gutpunch of getting hit by a clown car.
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Multiverse of midness
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What if Spotify’s CEO ran big pharma
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Peter Molyneux causes the singularity
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You’ve seen this movie 5 times already in the last few years. It does nothing new, it excels in being surface level.
Also, if you’re main antagonist is supposedly the greatest Popstar ever, maybe don’t make his music so crap?
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Watched on Tuesday April 1, 2025.
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Say what you want, but Perkins sure knows how to pull a marketing scam. His latest foray makes me think he hit his head and accidentally stumbled on a Blumhouse set.
Some fun final destination deaths, but a lore so convoluted it would make the Smile series blush.
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Luca is one of the more interesting mainstream filmmakers out there. Not everything hits, but there’s clearly a vision. Great soundtrack by Trent and atticus, gorgeous visuals and an adorable Daniel Craig.
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Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.
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All the ingredients are there, it’s just overbaked and lacks any seasoning.
Great title though
How can something from such great source material (Stalenhag’s books) be so devoid of any artistic merit?
And what the fuck happened to the Russo brothers? If this was churned out with AI, I would believe you, because it is soulless and empty.
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After the negative opinions I heard I went in sceptical, but I thoroughly enjoyed the political intrigue and vibes.
Still a better intersex/trans story than Emilia Perez
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Oefies… this is a hard review to write. So, from a filmmaking perspective, it’s quite an achievement. The cinematography, the soundtrack, its all great stuff…
But the revisionist history? Don’t know how I feel about that. Ok, you can say it’s a work of fiction and it’s not autobiographical, but if you clearly use that language AND touch subjects like holocaust, the architectural movement etc… would be nice if it wasn’t all made up hocus pocus, no?
I bet 80% of the people who saw this movie thought, wauw, that poor holocaust survivor Jewish man, such a story…
I was one of them. And then I did my research.
Oefies indeed.
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That ghost sure built up an impressive steadicam showreel.
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Even tough I enjoyed my time, something kept bothering me… if this wasn’t a CGI monkey, his character would be so unlikeable that it would be up for a razzie.
So a commendable choice to make an asshat like Robbie Williams “work” as a protagonist.
Technically very impressive, but take away the monkey and its a paint by numbers cookie cutter biopic.
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More comedy than horror, we went in completely blind which made us enjoy the plot and twists to its fullest.
Very fun movie about incels.
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Not one of Nicholas Stoller’s better works. Not bad, not good either. Forgettable in every way, I wouldn’t be surprised this movie is collectively erased from our memories by the end of the year.
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Leave it to a 72 year old cishet French “auteur” to tell me what the trans experience is like all whilst telling the most racist tonedeath Oscar bait since Crash.
Profoundly problematic
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The most unrealistic part of this movie isn’t the satanic cult living next door, but the middle class people living in huge mansions.
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Watched on Tuesday January 14, 2025.
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I’m all here for the Kieran Culkin renaissance. Sweet, moving and…be still my heart, under 82 minutes!
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What starts as a fun idea catastrophically fails at everything it tries to do. Its main reliance on nostalgia is nothing more than a collection of “memberberries” catering towards the elder millennial. Member janko jeans? Member Junior starring Arnold Schwarzenegger? Member AOL? Hahahaha right? That’s enough right? Oh you actually want substance? Oh shit…
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Still charming as ever, but never really reaches the scope or whit of Curse of the Wererabbit.
This could have actually worked a lot better as one of the 30 minute shorts, now it’s just stretched a bit thin.
Still has a blast
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While Eggers disappointed with the Northman, Nosferatu is a real return to form and proof he is a master visual storyteller. The modern take on this gothic horror classic is haunting, beautiful and grotesque with performances that define careers. Eggers has cemented himself as one of the modern horror greats.
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indiana Jones for the poetic soul. its hard to pinpoint what this one is about, but it leaves you with so much impressions, the rise of capitalism under grave robbing in the 80s in italy, metaphors about the underworld, comedic scenes that are sped up like a louis de funes chase and yes, even tomb raiding. Josh O’Conner is also entering my list of modern heartthrobs.
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A little run of the mill in vibecheck with its straight to dvd esthetic, but some good laughs.
Extra points for letting MeN and WaHmeN just be friends without it having to be a whole forced romance.
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Tv movie of the week with extra steps. The idea is interesting, the ethical quandary of it all, but the characters are pretty one dimensional and everything feels clinical.
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There is some suspension of disbelief required (obviously), but I had fun.
It’s existential questions are very barebones, but hearing Hugh Grant imitate Thom Yorke AND Jar Jar Binx in pursuit of Science put a smile on my face
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Industry defining setdesign and art direction, dazzling choreographies and immaculate casting (so inclusive I felt the woke mind virus beat in my heart) make this first part a must see. Lets hope part 2 sticks the landing!
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Fantastic modern elephant man with very poignant critique on actors playing disabled people. Gets quite layered in the end and the meta narrative got me hooked
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Part 1 was It follows from den aldi, part 2’s lore is still an absolute mess (wtf are the actual rules?!), but I’m pleasantly surprised at some of the direction on display here.
Soms genuine creep and a very solid performance from Naomi Scott, it was fun.
But please no Smile 3, the lore makes no sense.
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Kleenex stock just got a bump
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The comedy of Saturday night live hasn’t been relevant for… decades, so this romantic look at days of old feels very pandering.
It’s an entertaining affair, but casting is hit or miss. Nicholas Braun as Andy Kaufman is a definite miss, making a caricature of a caricature.
Let’s just not talk about how Jim Henson, an actual genius, is portrayed, because Jeez Luize.
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More coming of age drama than comedy, prepare to be “Bridge to Therebithia’d”
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Interesting documentary following the life of an orange monster
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So boring I forgot I already saw it 10 years ago.
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Delightful!
Severence meets The Fly.
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Why all the hate? Pretty good for a directorial debut.
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Oh boy… this thing.
Memberberries don’t work for me. I don’t get all giddy when something new supposedly references something from my youth. I have fond memories of Beetlejuice, but I don’t want to see it rehashed in some “member this?” fanservicy corporate marvel bullshit.
And alas, despite the “farely positive reviews”, this is a shit show. It tackles WAY too much plot and side plots. These get resolved in the most lazy ways possible (one of them literally involves a bad guy and beetlejuice just pulls a random deus ex machine lever and he disappears, a whole side plot of 30-40+ minutes)
I don’t know if it’s a me thing, but despite the very practical sets and effects, this thing looks AWEFUL. It has this digital telenovela feel that makes the real sets look even more (Tim burton experience in Brussels fake).
It feels like it started life as a tv show, with its look and thousands of plot elements and then they didn’t adjust the scope when converting to a movie so the pacing is atrocious.
Good that they didn’t ask Jeffrey Jones back (google it) but for avoiding using an actor he sure is an INSANELY INTEGRAL PART OF THE PLOT, with his likeness plastered all over the place. He must have gotten money for this, no doubt.
And aaaah, the soul train. It’s 2024 and Burton finally found a place for black people in his “aesthetic”, not realising that by using the stereotype it makes it quite racist.
This movie didn’t need to exist. Half a star extra for practical effects.
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This review is only about the short “Stowaway”.
This was the main event for me. Mike Flanagan wrote a three dimensional character with just a few lines of dialogue that made me care so much more about than any other performance in vhs beyond.
Kate Siegels direction is meticulous and expertly paced so the Prometheus like ending (the Greek myth, not the Ridley Scott film) hit me hard with existential dread.
Special mention to Alanah Pearce’s brakeout performance.
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A bit up its own ass with the 35mm and the bad lettering, but twisty turny enough to keep me on my toes for its 90 min runtime.
Flawed, but interesting nontheless.
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Did i chuckle a few times because of the quick witted nature of Ryan Renolds? Sure i did, i'm not going to deny that. But the entire reason this movie exists, the entire reason people seem to like it, is because one billion dollar corporation ate another billion dollar corporation.
THATS ALL THIS IS, A BIG FLASHY POWERPOINT WITH STATS ABOUT IP.
The story is nonsense, the cameos i can't speak of but boy did they feel cooked up in multiple boardroom meetings with interns looking up old Fox IP and the CGI is boredline offensive for a movie that might another billion dollars.
PAY YOUR FUCKING ARTISTS
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When I heard they were doing a Hollywood remake of this bleak European arthouse horror, I laughed out loud. HA, not with that ending!
And to no one’s surprise they completely rewrote the ending.
I was a fan of the original up until that controversial ending. I couldn’t look through the unrealistic, completely barren of any spine, bleak, depressing ending so it kinda ruined it for me.
That’s completely been replaced with a big ol Hollywood shoot out. Funnily enough I find that more realistic. But better? Eh
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Epstein didn’t kill himself
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