Tag: 7.1

Oopsies Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively form an unusual, desperate friendship in A Simple Favor. In personality, they represent oil and water; when together, they bond. It’s an unusual …

Over Minted Peppermint is the same movie as 2018’s remake of Death Wish. The only differentiating factor is Peppermint’s lack of gun fetish. And the lack of Bruce Willis. …

Murdering Happy You’ll need to excuse the plot of Happytime Murders. That’s just in the way of puppet sex. And puppet drugs. Happytime Murders is a one joke idea …

Failure to Raid Built on an alpha male, macho foundation, the (literal) killer attitude of Mile 22’s secret government op is insufferably raw. The idea of this loud, booming, …

Critical Aversion Day of the Soldado concerns itself with border crossings, human trafficking, and for brief moment, Muslim terrorists who detonate suicide vests inside of an American grocery store. …

Shadow Man Shadow Recruit almost got things right. This 2014 release saw Russians breaking America down financially, not politically. Shadow Recruit has jitters for another financial collapse, not long …

Pointing Back in Time Action Point is a couple of different things. First, there’s the throwback angle, a return to coming-of-age, nostalgic films like Meatballs. Kids being kids, rambunctious, …

Assembled, then Disassembled With a decade of build-up, Infinity War goes all out with its spectacle. One computer generated war segues into another, becoming a repetitious and tiring mass …

BB-Bored On repeat viewings, Last Jedi further falls from Star Wars pantheon. It’s a needless film, progressing neither the larger story nor the individual characters. It’s the manifestation of …

Downspout Based solely on what he created in Downsizing, Alexander Payne must hate everything. Billed as a quirky comedy about tiny people living in a tiny world, Downsizing instead …

Ragnarocking Thor: Ragnarok shows how versatile the Marvel Universe can be. It’s a slew of beautiful colors, wacky action, and importantly, a stream of comedy. It’s hilarious. Despite the …

Childhood Matured In this era of anti-bullying crusades, Wonder has its place. It’s a fine story of a boy with a facial disfigurement pulled away from the safety of …