Review: Annabelle Comes Home, 2019, dir. Gary Dauberman

She’s home! Annabelle, she’s home! That’s…that’s really not good, whose home did she come to? Yours? Mine? Hopefully yours. Sorry, I want to live. Continue reading →

“Godzilla: King of the Monsters Is An Unlikely Climate Change Movie”

*insert Godzilla roar noise* Continue reading →

Review: The Commuter, 2017, dir. Jaume Collet-Serra

I never realized how incomplete my life was without a Liam Neeson actioner where he beats up a man with a guitar, that is until I saw The Commuter. The Commuter is the latest in Neeson’s mini-filmography of big, dumb action movies where he plays either regular dudes or super badass dudes (some of whom live their … Continue reading →

Review: The Conjuring 2, 2016, dir. James Wan

Everyone who hates The Conjuring should love The Conjuring 2; unlike the first film, the second doesn’t make a plot-based historical oopsie and suggest that maybe women killed during the Salem witch trials actually were witches. But if The Conjuring 2 is a victory for social criticism on paper, it’s a defeat for integrity in franchising in practice (such … Continue reading →

Review: Source Code, 2011, dir. Duncan Jones

Duncan Jones is quickly making a reputation for himself as a director whose films don’t easily lend themselves to open and casual discussion. Between 2009’s Moon, one of the most impressive debut features of the last decade, and Jones’ latest offering, Source Code, a writer is hard-pressed to perform even a cursory review of the … Continue reading →

2011 Rising: My Films to Watch (pt.1)

For me, 2010’s in the bag, but it’s not totally wrapped up until I take the time to ruminate over the upcoming slate of movies in 2011 that excite me, discourage me, intrigue me, or puzzle/offend me (and, of course, also post the rest of my top ten, which is, I promise, coming around the … Continue reading →