Black Bag Movie Review: Spies, Lies, and Mixed Bags

Snappy dialogue, spies, and sexual tension are a near perfect recipe for a Steven Soderbergh film, but somehow Black Bag doesn’t always hit for me.

A Real Pain is a Joy to Watch – Film Review

A Real Pain is about the most cringe-inducing time I have spent watching a movie in recent memory, and yet it manages to be enjoyable.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Is The Sequel I Didn’t Need But Loved

Beetlejuice is a film that probably didn’t need a sequel, but now that we have one, I couldn’t be happier.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Review

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire drops the adversarial ‘versus’ of the previous film in the series, and unfortunately loses some of the fun conflict with it.

Mean Girls (2023) – A Review in Brief

Mean Girls shines when it distances itself from its source material, but unfortunately, it doesn’t do it enough. Granted, this is a film based on a Broadway musical based on a film, so we’re three layers into remake inception at this point. Maybe I was expecting too much, but at the end of the day, this movie left me longing for the original cast and I almost turned it off several times to watch the 2004 classic.

Mission Impossible 2 – A Re-Review in Brief

MI:2 seems to take itself far less seriously than MI:1, but I honestly can’t tell if that’s on purpose or just the film showing its age.

Dune – A Re-Review in Brief

Overall, my opinion of Dune is relatively steady; it’s a wonderful film with an incredible score and beautiful imagery. The action is phenomenal, but the film is carried by the unsettling tension between its characters.

Mission Impossible: 1 – A Re-Review in Brief

I made the decision to come back to this series after recently rewatching Ghost Protocol and remembering how much I love the over-the-top action and humor. Mission Impossible: 1 (MI:1) almost feels like it’s from a completely different franchise.