I Think I Liked 22 Jump Street
Perhaps it’s just good for a comedy sequel, which is an awfully low bar to leap.
Category Archives: Active Observation
Godzilla: The Original 1954 Atomic Bad-Ass
There are a few good things to be said about the new Godzilla. The best thing to be said is that it inspired a theatrical re-release of the original, Raymond Burr-free Japanese version from 1954.
The Edge of Tomorrow One Word Review: Wow
To see quite a few more words, and to find out whether that’s a good or a bad “wow,” come on inside.
Going Ape #5: Battle For The Planet of The Apes
If there’s one good thing to be said about Battle For The Planet of The Apes—and there is indeed only one—it’s that the previous three movies in the series are retrospectively brilliant in comparison.
Fast & Furious 6 Sicks Up All Over Itself
I should have stopped watching these films after Fast Five.
X-Men: Days of Future Pastiche
It is the presidential candidate of films — attempting to be all things to all people and so succeeding in taking a stand on nothing, evincing zero honesty or insight.
Fast Five in Overdrive
Say what you will about this franchise, or about Vin Diesel, or style over substance director Justin Lin, or even screenwriter Chris Morgan — this film is stupid good.
Going Ape #4: Conquest of The Planet of The Apes
We last left the apes wondering if Zira and Cornelius’s baby would grow up and spawn a race of super-intelligent apes that would one day take over the world. WRONG! Well, sort of.
Godzilla, Or: Why Bother With Humans?
It’s a movie. About Godzilla. In 2014. He destroys some stuff, fights a couple of other monsters. There are people in the movie, but not so you’d notice.
The Double: One Movie, Twice The Boredom
In which Jesse Eisenberg plays two of himself, neither of whom is likely to keep you awake for a full 90 minutes.
Romero’s Day of The Dead, Or: Who Wants A Pet Zombie?
Listen up, Bub: what we got here are a bunch of staggering zombies and a bunch of yelling humans. Guess which ones are more interesting?
Young & Beautiful, Or: The Upside Of Teenage Prostitution As A Means Of Personal Growth
Do you want to watch a 21-year-old supermodel play a 17-year-old teenager discovering her sexuality by becoming a prostitute and having hot naked sex with strange men in expensive hotel rooms?
Going Ape #3: Escape From The Planet Of The Apes
Ape madness continues with a movie you will hardly credit existing, even if, like me, you watched it last night.
Fast & Furious Four Real, You Guys
It is impossible to deny. After The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and Tres Fast Tres Furious, Fast & Furious is unquestionably the fourth film in this series of auto-racing movies of erratic quality.