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Memorial Day: Movies to Not See
Memorial Day weekend’s box office in 2015 was a historic low for the century. Well, 2017 has now surpassed 2015 as the Memorial Day...
May 29, 20172 min read
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Review of “Don’t Kill It”
* D This film could have been a bad episode of Supernatural. Lundgren and Klebe give reasonable performances, but their chemistry is...
May 22, 20171 min read
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Why do We Watch Sequels?
If I had to offer a guess, I’d say that familiarity with the previous film overwhelms any amount of word of mouth, trailer titillation,...
May 21, 20172 min read
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Review of “Guardians of the Galaxy 2”
I loved the original Guardians, so I eagerly anticipated seeing the sequel. It is a very good sequel. This film focuses on the origins of...
May 20, 20171 min read
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Review of “Edge of Tomorrow” (rewatch/spoilers)
* * * * A The aliens, known for no apparent reason as “mimics”, resemble the squid like sentinels from the matrix. Cage (Tom Cruise)...
May 17, 20171 min read
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Review of “Split”
M. Night Shyamalan is finally back in form with this disturbing thriller starring James “the professor” McAvoy as Barry, a disturbed man...
May 6, 20171 min read
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Review of “Legion” (season 1)
Not another TV series based on a superhero comic book! Wait. This one is different. Legion is technically part of the X-men universe, but...
Apr 29, 20171 min read
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Review of “My Hero Academia” (season 1, dub)
My Hero Academia is an anime series set in an alternate universe where most people have “quirks”, superhuman abilities. Those with the...
Apr 23, 20171 min read
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Review of “The Void”
The Void is a horror movie in the style of HP Lovecraft. The first act does a good job at building tension and keeping you guessing as to...
Apr 17, 20171 min read
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Review of “One Punch Man” (season 1, sub)
I just finished watching season 1 of the anime “One Punch Man”, available on (Canadian at least) Netflix. The series is Japanese, but has...
Apr 13, 20171 min read
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Review of “300” (rewatch)
Zach Snider’s 300 was surprisingly good, considering I’d seen it before. The writing is corny, and based on a graphic novel by Frank...
Apr 9, 20171 min read
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Review of “Assassin’s Creed” (mild spoilers)
Assassin’s Creed the movie had some big shoes to fill. While there were things I liked about the film, overall, I wasn’t impressed....
Mar 25, 20172 min read
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Review of “Cardinal”
The CTV crime series Cardinal is a murder mystery. Two cops in northern Quebec, John Cardinal (Billy Campbell) and Lise Delorme (Karine...
Mar 21, 20171 min read
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Review of “Fifty Shades Darker”
The sequel to “Fifty Shades of Grey” is an even worse than the weak original. There is plenty of soft core porn, little of which I found...
Mar 2, 20172 min read
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Review of “John Wick Chapter 2”
I almost gave this film 3 stars, but it just didn’t quite make it. I’ll try to keep this review spoiler free. In short, this chapter...
Feb 20, 20171 min read
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Review of “The Departed”
The Departed is a 2006 gangster pic by Martin Scorsese that stars Jack Nicholson as mob boss Frank Costello, Matt Damon as ambitious...
Jan 21, 20171 min read
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Review of “The Magnificent Seven” (2016)
This remake of the classic Yul Brenner western, famously based on the Japanese film “The Seven Samurai”, did not disappoint. Densel...
Jan 2, 20171 min read
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Review of “Star Trek: Beyond”
I spent part of New Year’s Eve watching the latest film in the rebooted Star Trek alternate universe (AU). It was quite good, with the...
Jan 1, 20171 min read
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The Worst Films I Watched in 2016
Here are the 8 worst films I watched last year, from least to most horrible: #8: “London Has Fallen” ** A trope filled action flick...
Dec 29, 20161 min read
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My Top 10 Movies of 2016
I’ll get to the top 10 movies I watched in 2016 in a minute. But first: Solid Sequels Here are a couple of sequels to good films that I...
Dec 27, 20162 min read
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