10. Prey (20th Century Studios – Disney Plus) Director: Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) Going back to basics reversed the downslide this series was starting on after Shane Black’s misstep The Predator, and it performed so well at 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 71 on Metacritic. The only way it could have done better was…
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Resident Evil: Village Has a Ball Going ‘Back to Formula’
I don’t play a lot of Capcom games. The last one I played outside of Resident Evil was the Dead Rising series. Those games are driven by strong gameplay ideas, the ludicrous story turns filled with thin characters with tons of personality and labyrinthian navigation systems. That DNA carries over here with the Labyrinth navigation…
Squid Game Spoiler Wrap-Up
With the plot and pacing of Squid Game taking its time to get to the second game, it hasn’t let up since. Episode 6 is the first time it felt like the show breathed and ended my night of bingeing. People wonder how they’d fare in these games. Red Light, Green Light is easy enough….
‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ is One of the Best Films of the Year!
It’s like if Paul Thomas Anderson made a horror movie. Around this time four years ago, I sang the praises of Don’t Breathe. A sleeper thriller hit, the kind of genre success I only catch on Home Video at the end of the year after everyone sings its praises. The Wolf of Snow Hollow lives…
RE-ƎVALUATION: TENET enjoyable more AT-HOME versus IN-THEATERS
Watching it In-Theaters I was but The Protagonist, but now I am Neil. I worked very hard on my TENET REVIEW. Considering I made a calculated risk to go see it during the pandemic and worked a month to edit in in video format. I thought it was too impenetrable with a pile of nothing…
Hey Guys! Netflix’s ‘You’ is ‘Dexter’ for the Me Too and Social Media Age
I groaned when I saw it in the Netflix queue: generic title? Check. Obvious social media commentary? Check. Impossibly good looking, likely otherwise broadly drawn characters? Check. I remember what convinced to me check it out, as the trendy trailer attached with the latest slowed down moody version of a hit song did it few…
Everything Is “Falling” Into Place on the Penultimate ‘Sharp Objects’ Episode
Rating: A- John Keene and Camille hook up which has been a long time coming. It’s predictable but I’m glad they understand each other. Detective Richard Willis doesn’t get any points for not throwing Camille’s damaged family history in her face, but its nice he doesn’t blame her and still gives her the information which…
Liam Neeson ‘Takes’ The Train in the Economic Anxiety thriller ‘The Commuter’
I completely agree with the Rotten Tomatoes Consensus on this one. The Commuter is essentially Non-Stop on a train with a less heightened theme, but its cast and its commitment to go through the motions of minor character work, staging a theme, throwing in a few chuckles, a good action scene or two without once…
Mr. Robot 3.0 System ‘Overview’
“I love the party, but I can’t stand the scene.” I binged Mr. Robot over the summer on Blu-Ray Home Video. Like most people I thought that the first season was superior and the second devolves into mind trips with its less structured nature and slightly longer length. After an extended break the show returns to…
Review: The ‘Life’ We Know
Why did Jake Gyllenhaal trap Ryan Reynolds behind an air lock? That was the question that drove me to see Life. Has Gyllenhaal gone space crazy? Is it to save his own skin? Is he the poison pill character in horror films? A criminally underutilized aspect of the marketing campaign typical to Sony is all over the place…
Case Four: The Multiplicities of Polytechnique (2009)
Written for Dr. Boulou Ebanda de B’béri’s ‘Canadian and Quebec Cinema’ by Xi (Samuel) Wang and Will Hume at University of Ottawa. March 2016. Actions and Behaviours Polytechnique (2009) is a retelling of the December 6th, 1989 massacre. A true story in which 14 women are murdered. The deadly attack was until 2020, the deadliest…
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