Movie Review: The Machine (2023)

3.5/5 Reviewed May 31, 2023 Bert Kreischer’s legendary standup routine about his true college adventure in Russia, where his drinking and partying led to him hanging out with the Russian mafia and robbing a train, comes to life in this film where, years after that incident, more mobsters come after him, looking for something he

Movie Review: Isle of Dogs (2018)

4/5 Reviewed May 26, 2023 Wes Anderson stop-motion flick about a young boy who crashes onto a trash island in Japan where all the area’s dogs have been exiled to, searching for his own pup; he’s joined and aided by a motley pack of dogs along the way, including one stray that hates humans. It’s…pretty

Movie Review: Fast X (2023)

3.25/5 Probably the best of the recent mainline Fast and Furious movies (which isn’t saying much, I know). This one sees the psychotic son (Jason Momoa) of a former villain (from Fast V) come after Dom and his extended family, trapping and abusing them again and again with ridiculous situations and armies of henchmen. Originally

Movie Review: Non-Stop (2014)

2.75/5 Reviewed May 14, 2023 Liam Neeson thriller about an air marshall who begins to receive messages mid-flight that state passengers are going to die every 20 minutes unless $150M is wired into a bank account. It’s…OK. Got a pretty solid cast of A and B-list talent like Julianne Moore, Corey Stoll, Lupita Nyong’o, and

Movie Review: Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

2/5 Reviewed May 14, 2023 The movie that had Sam Raimi quit directing movies for nearly a decade, this one is the prequel to the Wizard of Oz, showing the con man destined to end up in Oz as their benevolent wizard. I…did not like it. At all. The acting, effects (green screen hell where

Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (2023)

4.25/5 Reviewed May 7, 2023 James Gunn’s swan song in the MCU and trilogy capper finds our beloved motley group racing to uncover the secrets of Rocket’s past, which brings them into conflict with Adam Warlock and The High Evolutionary. It’s…a very solid final film for this iteration of the Guardians. Gunn uses smaller stakes

Movie Review: The November Man (2014)

3/5 Reviewed May 4, 2023 Spy thriller starring Pierce Brosnan, basically playing a toned-down, older version of his Bond persona, this one is about a retired agent brought back for a mission with personal stakes…and of course things go sideways, people betray and are betrayed, and it’s honestly kind of generic in the overall scheme