When dealing in long-awaited sequels to iconic classics, one’s expectations must be kept firmly in check if there are any hopes of enjoying the film.
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Slingshot – Good performances can’t save an uninspired script
There’s a part in Slingshot when Casey Affleck remarks to another character that by the time the spaceship he eventually finds himself on reaches its
Terminator Zero plays it safe with the material but looks good doing it
The Terminator franchise has always been a breeding ground for narrative innovation. Robots, time travel, war, artificial intelligence — there are no boundaries as to
www.RachelOrmont.com – Peter Vack’s technosatire is a genuinely bizarre piece of outsider art
www.RachelOrmont.com is as impossible to describe as it is to mention online without the title defaulting to a hyperlink, but this, as I would imagine it,
Blink Twice – A strong directorial debut for Zoë Kravitz, despite its derivative script
Somewhere between Get Out and Don’t Worry Darling exists Blink Twice, the directorial debut of Zoë Kravitz, who also co-wrote the script. Originally titled Pussy
I Like to Movie Movie episode 260 – Megan: Impossible – The Road to Dead Reckoning Part Two (Part Three)
Megan has never seen a Mission: Impossible movie. Dan and Stephen are making her watch ALL OF THEM. That’s right, as the final (?) film
Alien: Romulus – a slick, scary genre exercise
The Alien franchise has touched upon many genres in its 45 years of chest-bursting glory. From its humble beginnings as a single-location, claustrophobic horror flick,
Cuckoo is…cuckoo
Writer/director Tilman Singer is not interested in holding your hand. He’ll give you every piece of information you need to crack the narrative code of
It Ends with Us is a movie for moms (who deserve a night out, dammit!)
If you have a “mom’s night out” in your near future, it’s likely you’ve already made plans to see It Ends With Us, the adaptation
TRAP is both absurd and absurdly thrilling
Trap is a patently ridiculous movie. An absurd concept milked with such ferocious thoroughness that it cannot help but to enter into wildly far-fetched territories.