Tag: 5 Star Audio

6000 SUX The remarkable thing about RoboCop is how right it was. Robocop’s news is broadcast in three minute chunks, predicting short attention spans. Commercials for branded artificial hearts …

Baby Shark, Grandpa Shark 47 Meters Down: Uncaged begins with protagonist Mia falling into water. The school bully pushed her in, the immediate indicator that Mia (Sophie Nelisse) will …

Horror Out of Time Movie audiences needed Howard Hawks’ 1951 film adaptation of The Thing. Society rife with the Red Scare and post-WWII anxieties of outsiders, the story of …

Supernatural Netflix Chiller Gets Super-sized For Blu-ray A dysfunctional family with five children barely survive a haunted house, only to be drawn in by the mansion’s evil power decades …

Beyond Wonderful The Wizard of Oz released six days before Germany invaded Poland – a last reprieve of fantasy escapism before conflict. It’s appropriate too. Wizard of Oz is …

Gator Needs Food Badly Played straight despite the concept’s absurdity, Crawl brings genuine thriller tactics between moments of blundering decision making. There’s not much call to take action against …

Kung Fu Gizmo Action Remember Stripe, leader of the naughty monsters from Gremlins? The producers behind director Andrew Lau’s Kung Fu Monster certainly seem to remember the movie, blatantly …

Life is Suffering Most of John Wick 3 takes place in New York. The story travels of course; as seen here, Casablanca changed since Bogart snuffed out the Nazis. …

No, My Queen Men in Black: International exists, like Men in Black II exists. That’s not right. This isn’t Men in Black II bad, rather so routine and draining …

Future Kids Alita’s world exists on the surface of Earth. Above is a floating city. The latter is where the rich live, dumping their garbage down on the poverty-riddled …

Let God Take His Own Kid The key scene in this Pet Semetary remake is when the parents, played by Jason Clarke and Amy Seimetz, discuss death with their …

Accept Us What a bizarre and lasting creative splendor Us is. In terms of major studio production, Us’ exotic, judgmental slant ignores all mainstream expectations. Over the opening credits, …