Category: Verdict: 2.5
Though technically sound, the piece fails to resonate emotionally, making for a bland experience.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
The question isn’t if the new A Nightmare on Elm Street lives up to the original. Of course, it doesn’t. At the time of…
Chuck 1.02: Chuck versus the Helicopter
Beckman: “Our most valuable secrets have been sent to an idiot.” Graham: “At least they weren’t sent to his friend.” Meet Chuck again: he’s…
Chuck 4.15: Chuck versus the C.A.T. Squad
Chuck: “Honestly, how well do you know Amy? I mean, is anyone really that perky?” Meet the Clandestine Attack Team, also known as the…
Chuck 4.20: Chuck versus the Family Volkoff
Alexei: “As my grandma used to say, play your cards close to the vest, and wear a coat over the vest, or you’ll look…
Chuck 4.24: Chuck versus the Cliffhanger
Chuck: “Our kids will be little super-heroes with little capes.” Meet Hartley Winterbottom, for whom the expression “mild-mannered” doesn’t begin to cover it. In…
Cowboys and Aliens (2011)
Every once in a while, a movie reminds me I’m not a science fiction fan despite my writing for the Web. This is not…
Deliver Us from Evil (2014)
I’ve expressed in the past my dislike of scary movies “based on real events”. Meant to further our suspension of disbelief, the conceit actually…
Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)
Well, I didn’t see this one coming. Since Hellraiser made the straight-to-video jump in 2000, each entry in the series has featured a climactic…
Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)
Scary movies went through an odd phase in the early aughts. For better or worse, the success of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth sense…
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
I think I’ve taken all I can from the Grindhouse series, which started as a one-off experiment in 2007 (a commercially failed one at…
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