• March 29, 2024
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Part of the fun of the latest reboots of Godzilla and friends (starting with Gareth Edwards’ 2014 film) has been the surprising earnestness despite the outrageous premise: There have...

• March 14, 2024
• Action, At Home, Crime

Lou (Kristen Stewart) is bored at her literally shitty job, stuck cleaning clogged toilets yet again at the gym she manages. The place reeks of sweat and self-absorption, where...

• February 22, 2024
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Thriller

The Coen Brothers, even with their occasional misfires, are a magic moviemaking duo. But in Ethan Coen’s solo directorial debut, adapting a screenplay by his wife Tricia Cooke, he...

• June 30, 2023
• Action, Adventure, At Home

When 1969-era Indiana Jones complains that everything hurts, it is clear that he means more than that punch to the jaw, or the bullet hole in his shoulder. Indy...

• June 17, 2023
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

You can never accuse The Flash of not going big. There are multiverses, multisuperheroes, and even multiFlashes. Why have one Batman when you can have all of them? Why...

• June 14, 2023
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

In space stories, 65 million years is a long, long time ago. But 65 million years ago, there was apparently another universe where civilized humans existed with poor health...

• February 21, 2023
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) is a martial arts master, but he is tired and wants to live a quiet life. Deciding to give up his sword, Green Destiny,...

• December 15, 2022
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

I went in to Avatar: The Way of Water admittedly very cynical. Let’s just put it this way: I kind of hated 2009’s Avatar. I was annoyed by the...

• September 16, 2022
• Action, At Home, Drama

When I walked out of the theater after seeing The Woman King, I marveled to a group of women, “This is such an interesting piece of history… I can’t...

• August 5, 2022
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Thriller

Since Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, and Robert Rodriguez and their ilk first started riddling the screen with rapid-fire dialogue to complement equally rapid-fire bullets, the quippy, self-aware ultra-violent action...

• July 8, 2022
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Comedy, Fantasy

In our previous chapter with Thor the Space Viking, director Taika Waititi (mercifully) unleashed Chris Hemsworth’s untapped comedy skills, reviving the dullest Marvel series with probably the weirdest, and...

• May 25, 2022
• Action, At Home, Drama

From the opening moment the modern Paramount logo shows up on screen with the original 80s Top Gun score by Harold Faltermeyer playing over the soundtrack, I couldn’t help...