Movie Review: Force of Nature (2020)

1.75/5 Reviewed January 29, 2021 Robbers raid an apartment complex for art in the middle of a hurricane, while residents and a pair of cops fight back. Has Mel Gibson, Emile Hirsh, and Kate Bosworth. It’s absolute trash. B movie action tropes like wildly inconsistent characters, bad guys never shooting the good guys who are

Movie Review: Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Reviewed January 6, 2021 The classic Kubrick film, done at the height of the Red Scare, about a rogue general trying to start a nuclear war and the insane characters trying to stop it. Watched this one with a friend and we had a blast. Felt like an appropriate film given today’s incidents as well.

Movie Review: Highlander (1986)

3.25/5 Reviewed January 2, 2021 A fantasy classic, Highlander is about an immortal Scottish swordsman who fights and kills other immortals for an ultimate prize, but he has the most evil and powerful immortal to go through first. The film actually bombed but gained cult status (and a whole plethora of apparently terrible sequels) through

Movie Review: Midway (2019)

3.5/5 Reviewed January 1, 2021 War film about the events leading up to and including the Battle of Midway, a major turning point in the Pacific theater of WWII, as shown through various soldiers’ eyes. It’s pretty historically accurate, minus some Hollywood action dramatization, but feels almost underwhelming. Definitely a solid war flick that memorializes