The original "Ghostbusters" films were not constructed to kick off a huge franchise with regular installments akin to Marvel films. Those original two films were tightly crafted comedies dripping in satire and dry wit thoroughly unfit for that treatment. Yet, four decades later, because those films have a recognizable name and famous iconography, that seems... Continue Reading →
"Godzilla Minus One" is the antithesis of the modern superhero blockbuster. It's grounded, it has great characters who are given full and fulfilling journeys and it looks incredibly sharp despite having a minuscule budget of less than $15 million. In fact, I'd say this film looks better than any of Marvel's recent films boasting $200... Continue Reading →
Here on InReview, we couldn't let Halloween pass by without reviewing a scary movie. "Carrie" is a Halloween mainstay. While I haven't seen the original, I thought I'd give the 2013 reboot a try. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz as high school student Carrie White, who is ostracized by her fellow classmates when she... Continue Reading →
I don't remember much from "The Equalizer 2," other than the fact that I didn't like it due to its schlocky, laughable action scenes and one-note protagonist in former Marine and DIA agent Robert McCall (Denzel Washington). So I wasn't expecting much from the franchise's third film but was more than open to being pleasantly... Continue Reading →
There was once a time when movie adaptations of video games were always guaranteed to be horrible, which I think came from a fundamental misunderstanding and lack of respect for the source material from Hollywood. That is no longer the case, with the likes of "Prince of Persia," "Sonic the Hedgehog" and arguably "The Super... Continue Reading →
Every so often, I come across a film that has me wondering: Who is this for? Michael Gan's "Burn," starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Josh Hutcherson is one such film. The film takes place mostly in a gas station somewhere in rural America, where attendants Melinda (Cobham-Hervey) and Sheila (Suki Waterhouse) have the graveyard shift. The two... Continue Reading →
There has been a recent spate of corporate biopics in the same vein of 2010's "The Social Network," which highlight their respective products through the lens of innovation. "Air" is arguably the most prominent, along with "Tetris" and "BlackBerry." "Air" dramatizes the story of how the Air Jordan shoe line was created, following Sonny Vaccaro (Matt... Continue Reading →
Never doubt Pixar, unless they're making a "Cars" sequel. With few exceptions, that motto has held true over the last decade, with 2015's "The Good Dinosaur" being their only film that fits those parameters that I didn't care for. The studio's latest offering, "Elemental," focuses on a simmering romance between two young elements weighed down... Continue Reading →
Getting out of a toxic relationship can be challenging, especially when it's over a century old and with a famous vampire. That's the premise of Chris McKay's "Renfield," starring Nicholas Hoult as the titular R.M. Renfield, who has been Count Dracula's (Nicholas Cage) familiar for at least a century. It started when Renfield tried to... Continue Reading →
Small, intimate character dramas with a cast of 2-3 actors, a great script, and a small handful of locations -- if not one location -- can work out brilliantly, and they have for Netflix in the past, most notably with 2019's "Marriage Story", and for the most part, last year's "Malcolm & Marie." However, they... Continue Reading →
Recently, Netflix revived the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise with a new movie. This one was meant to be a sequel of some kind to the original, but it's unclear where exactly it falls along the timeline of the multiple movies that have been released under the name. So, how did this reboot of sorts go?... Continue Reading →
Time travel is complicated, messy and rife for abuse -- so why have it in the first place? Such is the thesis of Shawn Levy's "The Adam Project". The film opens in 2050, in which time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed (Ryan Reynolds) steals a time ship, hoping to go back to 2018 when his father,... Continue Reading →
Imagine if, after Mr. Rogers died, a company run by somebody not connected to the Rogers family in any way used financial leverage and the law to gain the rights to his likeness, and profited off of his image for 26 years without giving his surviving family members a dime of royalties. This is the... Continue Reading →
Chadwick Boseman only starred in 15 films during his lifetime, but he's had an irreplaceable impact on cinema and culture, portraying T'Challa aka the Black Panther in four feature films, while bringing to life the likes of Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and Norman Earl "Stormin' Norm" Holloway in his more serious works, of which his... Continue Reading →
Early this year, I reviewed Director McG's crass horror comedy (horomedy?) "The Babysitter," which starred Judah Lewis as a middle school student who must evade his babysitter, Bee (Samara Weaving), and her teenaged friends, who are part of a demonic cult and want to sacrifice him. It was a simple, shlocky film, whose main point was to... Continue Reading →
I work full-time as a newspaper designer who lays out a lot of sports pages, and I prominently remember laying out stories to do with disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. Even with that familiarity, it is hard to grasp the scope of the fact that this man got away for years with sexually abusing... Continue Reading →
We're reaching the point of the pandemic in which our options for fresh entertainment are limited, as what would normally be the beginning of the summer movie season has been populated by sparse releases on streaming platforms, mostly from the usual suspects, like Netflix and Amazon. Only time will tell if more big studios will follow... Continue Reading →
If you're unfamiliar with Cannon Films, 1970's "Joe" is a strange introduction. Cannon Films operated from 1967 to 1994, and made their name by extensively investing in the home video market, garnering the reputation of producing absolutely crazy but fun low to medium quality films. If you've seen RedLetterMedia's "Best of the Worst" YouTube series,... Continue Reading →
Full Disclosure: InReview was provided with an advanced screener for the following film. I've been watching a lot of awful horror films on Hulu recently. It's gotten to the point where I'm almost horror-ed out, as it's beyond me why multimillion dollar productions can't for the life of them get the basics of filmmaking 101 down (I'm... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_UQH8ORk8k This year, I committed to uploading at least one video per month to InReview's YouTube channel. We had a good start in February, but those plans crashed and burned down in March, as the coronavirus greatly upheaved everyone's lives, myself included. With that being said, in April I finally had the time to edit... Continue Reading →
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