Well, that was interesting. Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is an office worker in this highly dsyfunctional bureaucratic, consumerist, dystopian nightmare. At night, however, he dreams of soaring through the skies and rescuing a beautiful young woman. One day, he discovers Jill Layton (Kim Greist), a truck driver who’s trying to seek justice for Archibald Buttle …
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Nothing A Cheery Commercial Can’t Fix (Spoilers) Claire (Millie Brady) is one of seven participants in an experimental drug trial. The person in charge of the trial is Dr. Burke (Pollyanna McIntosh), who works for Blackwood Pharmaceuticals. While staying at the company’s underground facility, Claire shares a room with Alison (Abby Fitz). Unlike her roommate, …
Where, oh where, has my review gone: Lovecraft/Gordon Analysis
Where, oh where, can it be? This one is more of a features article, but it’s close enough to count. If you want to read about me discussing Stuart Gordon adapting the work of H. P. Lovecraft, then you can go here.
Starman
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue (Massive Spoilers) Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) of Star Command is on an exploration vessel that decides to check out an unknown planet to see if the locale lifeforms are hostile. Early on, Buzz makes it clear that he hates rookies and autopilots for getting in the way, believing …
Marvel’s Multiverse Madness
I missed you Raimi (Massive Spoilers) After assisting several other heroes in other movies, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Doctor Stephen Strange for the first time in his own film since 2016 (god, that seems like a million years ago). He is joined by a newcomer to the Marvel Cinematic Univers (MCU), Xochitl Gomez, who holds …
Dither
Where are all the superheroes? (Unmarked Spoilers) Bill Pardy (Nathan Fillion) is the chief of police in Wheesly and has been carrying a torch for his childhood friend Starla (Elizabeth Banks) for years. Starla is a schoolteacher molding young minds like Kylie Strutemyer (Tania Saulnier). Starla’s also married to an older, wealthier, and less attractive …
Don’t hate the player
Just a sweet sweet fantasy, baby (Unmarked Spoilers) Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is a friendly non-player character in Free City, this multiplayer game that’s all about destruction. Every day he and his buddy, Buddy (Lil Rel Howery), sit in the background as players, distinguished by their sunglasses, hold up the bank where they work. Everything changes when …
The Extra-Terrestrial
What a great piece of movie nostalgia. One day siblings Mimi (Nita-Josée Hanna) and Luke (Owen Myre) discover an ancient sarcophagus buried in their backyard. It contains an alien overlord they nickname Psycho Goreman (Matthew Ninaber, voiced by Steven Vlahos), or PG for short. Eons ago, he was imprisoned by the Templars before he could …
Lovely Day
Do these two have photographic memories? (Unmarked Spoilers) Mark (Kyle Allen) is a teen boy stuck in a time loop repeating the same day over and over again. One day he meets Margaret (Kathryn Newton), a girl his age who’s stuck in the time loop with him. After some convincing, Mark teams up with Margaret …
Do you believe you can fly?
“There is no way that LeBron will ever be Jordan. Nobody will ever be Jordan, okay.” -Russell Gettis, Bad Teacher (Unmarked Spoilers) Al-G Rhythm (Don Cheadle) is the Warner Bros. server algorithm (get it?). When he’s not ruling over the Serververs, he’s busy conducting an idea that will finally get him the respect he thinks …
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