"I’m gonna kill him myself, I swear. That’s the only reason why I’m still alive."
There's no reason a film with such dazzling action segments should be so, so boring. After a slick pair of fight scenes and some boilerplate espionage setup, we're treated to a horribly paced, overwrought, messy 50-minute slog of tepid romcom-lite sequences and lame plot twists that anyone with half a brain can see coming a mile away. It doesn't help that it's riddled with bit…
"Some call me the Dark One. Others, the Lord of Death. To most, I am... Dracula!"
Engaging premise, fun fight choreography, occasionally smart script, and Nic Cage as Dracula--seems like an easy win. But Renfield is an acceptable film in spite of its decisions, not because of them. The film spends far, far too much time on the painfully generic Awkwafina subplot, dealing with a police officer, her sister, and a crime family. No element of this stands out, and…
Infinite Darkness suffers from all the same issues plaguing the rest of the Resident Evil CGI features: hollow action, weak character depiction, and a messy, murky plot that struggles to explain itself. It is clear now, after four of these CGI endeavors, that that team behind them is in dire need of revamp. In light of the games' return to horror and a more serious tone, the lack of quality and care put into these CGI features is evident.
For…
I last watched this around two decades ago, and my memories were faint. I remembered a solid slasher movie.
I was not prepared for how hard-hitting, beautiful and relevant Candyman is, arguably moreso now than ever before. Urban gothic ghost story, part slasher, part psychodrama. A treatise on the infectious quality of legend. A movie that highlights the divide in racial understandings of the violence that plagues a community; one group believes it a ghost story, the other lives in…
