Daily Archives: March 8, 2024

Dale Dickey also survives the end of the world. And Ella Purnell. And Kyle MacLachlan. At least for a bit. April 11. Prime.

Dated, comically corny but heavy-handed, pretty and production-designed to death but oh-so-sound-stagey, “Forbidden Planet” remains a touchstone film in the science fiction canon almost in spite of itself. A lot of its cachet relates to the Cold War zeitgeist that … Continue reading →

Mary Elizabeth Winstead co stars. The rest of the supporting cast isn’t familiar to me. Impressive looking production, based on a best seller, and not one by Ayn Rand. March 29 on Paramount+.

Short but slow, occasionally chilling but never quite scary, “Night Shift” is a straight-up genre thriller that embraces that most ancient and hallowed of horror tropes, “A lone woman menaced in the dark of night.” Poor pacing dooms this debut … Continue reading →

“Code 8” was an “X-Men on a Budget” thriller, reasonably well cast, with hunky mutants (not called “mutants”) and decent taser-finger effects. But it was an ungainly lump of a movie, clumsily trying to switch between criminal mutants, who are … Continue reading →