Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A stirring, if weighty follow up to one of the biggest surprise animated hit that celebrated Spider-Man, his characters and worlds, and properly established the racially mixed yet unique new teenage protégé of the hero role, Miles Morales. Full of creative heart, passion, and reverence for the long running series as well as cleverly challenging and compelling exploration of the tragic nature of the character.
The question that runs through one’s mind, what is the point of this existing? A question the film never answers truthfully but in a cynical, hollow matter with this live action remake of the iconic animated classic.
What does it have,
A admirably solid performance from Halle Bailey.
Melissa McCarthy is actually decent in this and does an okay job with “Poor Unfortunate Souls”
What it doesn’t have,
All of the modern versions of the iconic musical numbers are soulless…
This feels like typical fare of early film releases that are dumped, because of their obvious meh level of quality on display. Despite having a star studded cast of proven actors that give a fantastic performance (mainly Jared Leto and Denzel Washington, with little for Rami Malek to do other than play a off-beat, introverted detective). The film it clearly feels inspired from (Se7en) are apparent but it lacks any sort of forward narrative drive or committed nihilistic tone to…
A surprisingly cheeky, campy fun horror film that takes the concept of killer dolls that Child's Play popularized and actually does an entertaining spin on it for today's audience.
Definitely supported by a cast that are fully aware of the kind of film they are starring in and supplemented by sharp writing that homages and expresses a love for B-grade horror films in the veins of Frankenstein (to provide an example of the kind of story and horror troupe here).…