Category: Movie Review

M. Night Shyamalan is back in form! Like many people, I fell enthralled with Shyamalan with such films as The Sixth Sense (1999) and Unbreakable (2000). Though I liked Signs (2002), the movie was too spiritual for my taste, and I felt the climax resorted to a dues ex machina. After seeing The Village (2004), I… Continue reading Movie Journal: Split

Passengers, directed by Mortem Tyldum, is a science fiction adventure that doubles also as cerebral science fiction. It is not as cerebral as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Sunshine (2007), or Interstellar (2014), but it is forces you to stop and think and to ponder about what you have seen. From that perspective, I like… Continue reading Movie Journal: Passengers

I bemoan the current state of the vampire genre. More than any other classic horror theme, vampires interest me. Ghosts can be scary, but most ghost stories resort to the same clichés of creepy noises, unexplained doors opening and closing, and shadowy figures. Frankenstein, a cautionary tale of science gone too far, also scares me,… Continue reading Movie Journal: Underworld and Underworld: Evolution

Though it has a different tone and a different focus than other Star Wars movies—less mystical and more action—Rogue One offers everything we came to expect from the franchise. It tells the story about everyday people caught up in events much larger than themselves, but who rise to the challenge and achieve their goals. That… Continue reading Movie Journal: Rogue One

They don’t make ‘em like they used to! I know that’s a cliché. I know it’s the old man lament. Though I don’t consider myself an old man, there’s no denying that I’m aging, and there’s no denying that I suffer nostalgic yearnings. A lot had changed in my life, much for the better but… Continue reading Movie Journal: Rosemary’s Baby

If you follow my blog posts, you know I have mixed feelings over superhero movies, especially as adapted by Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you are unaware of these mixed feelings, I wrote a rant about them a few months ago that you might want to read. Though I find them fun, entertaining movies—great popcorn flicks—I… Continue reading Movie Journal: Doctor Strange

Eva Green is fast becoming—if she hasn’t already become—one of my favorites actors. I first saw her in Casino Royale (2008) as Vesper Lynd. Since she didn’t want to be a Bond Girl, she was going to decline the role, until she read the screenplay and realized that Vesper was not just another Bond Girl. The… Continue reading Movie Journal: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children