Nintendo has been stingy with their movie rights, and who can blame them? In 1993, a live-action Super Mario Bros. movie was unleashed upon the world and it was so weird and so bad that it almost collapsed the cosmos. Seriously. I’m not exaggerating. It’s one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever seen and I…
I’m a little behind on the reviews, y’all. In the last few weeks I’ve moved, had a dental surgery done, made huge strides in wrapping up my latest work-in-progress, and attended ECCC where I served on my first ever literary panel. Yet somehow, I did manage to watch Scream VI amidst all that; I just…
Time for Shyamalan Roulette! The game where we collectively spin the wheel and get a 20% chance of a whammy. Or maybe higher, depending on your tastes. For me, though, I’ve enjoyed more of his movies than I’ve disliked, so I still give him the benefit of the doubt. Surely, he wouldn’t make another movie…
January is the month of the small movie, and here we have another in Missing, the sorta-kinda sequel to 2018’s Searching with John Cho. This movie doesn’t have anyone you’ve heard of (though you may have seen Megan Suri around). So, does that spell doom for this found footage thriller? Not really… I like found…
Note: This review is 100% spoiler-free. We’ve made it to the end of the first ever trilogy of trilogies (I didn’t research this; I’m just assuming). It’s been a wild ride of good and bad, beloved and hated, and everything in between. At times, these movies had nothing in common except the lightsabers. So, the…
Two years ago, The Last Jedi was poised to destroy the box office. And just before that, someone snuck in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. It went on to make nearly a billion dollars, which didn’t threaten Star Wars, of course, but it did manage to make that bank while showing opposite of it. Needless…