Who Killed Captain Alex?

This movie is more than a labor of love. It's a work of genius. Who Killed Captain Alex has more heart, devotion to the craft, and fun than anything Hollywood has produced in years. I propose sending all Hollywood actors, directors, producers, and executives to Uganda for extended apprenticeships in the…
January 26, 20185 Comments
Nerd Culture Is Dead

Nerd Culture Is Dead

Over at the Emperor Ponders blog, the Frisky Pagan charts the decline of Western culture using the highest-grossing films of each decade as a benchmark. Since there’s a lot to rant about this, I will focus on a single hypothesis: since the late 90s, there has been a divorce between…
January 17, 201817 Comments
Bright

Bright

Max Landis' urban fantasy Bright is an appreciable, rough-around-the-edges popcorn flick. That it's showing up on people's Best Movies of 2017 lists reveals more about Hollywood's--Bright was produced by Netflix--inability to tell an entertaining story than it says about the movie's quality. Before we get to my review, here are two pictures…
January 3, 201811 Comments
Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049

This review is admittedly late. I don't go to see movies in the theater anymore, so I only recently saw Blade Runner 2049 at the behest of a buddy now that it's out on home video. All of the popular YouTube film critics have already thrown their two cents in on this…
January 2, 20187 Comments
Razör Was Right

Razör Was Right

The perspicacious Razörfist weighs in on the backlash against The Last Jedi with an appropriately profanity-laden review. Razör's prescience regarding the collapse of the Star Wars franchise under Disney merits his exuberant "I told you so!" It also bears mentioning that he's not the only one who correctly predicted Rian Johnson…
December 28, 201710 Comments
The Last Jedi Is a Con

The Last Jedi Is a Con

Film critic Steven Greydanus reviews The Last Jedi for The National Catholic Register. Before we dig in, a reminder: You were warned. Greydanus begins conventionally enough with the sorts of bland compliments you'd expect from any film reviewer who wants to keep his job under the ever-expanding Mouse Monopoly. In the…
December 15, 201742 Comments
Hired Gun vs. Auteur

Hired Gun vs. Auteur

Are IP-based movie productions better served by engaging auteur directors who will control every aspect of the film, or do such projects reap greater benefits from a more mercenary approach? Bradford Walker offers a definite answer and compares DC Comics' movies to Marvel's as an example. Following on from a…
December 4, 201710 Comments
The More Disney Tighten Their Grip

The More Disney Tighten Their Grip

Movie theater owners are up in arms over the terms of a top secret exhibition agreement that Disney is trying to force on theaters showing The Last Jedi. "This deal is getting worse all the time." Lando Calrissian's statement about his arrangement with Darth Vader could well be on the…
November 7, 201715 Comments
Thor Ragnarok

Thor Ragnarok

On the latest episode of Geek Gab, we discuss three new movies, including the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor: Ragnarok. Have a listen! I also have an announcement for Geek Gab listeners. My "watch it burn and bring marshmallows" position on the collapse of Hollywood is no secret…
November 6, 201722 Comments
It’s Himmmmm

It’s Himmmmm

Yesterday I had one of those eureka moments that was once sole the province of dedicated conspiracy theorists with walls covered in red twine, but which the internet now makes available to all and sundry. In the course of my daily web rounds, I stumbled upon a new blog--new to…
November 3, 201712 Comments