Review: ‘Eternals’ Breaks the Marvel Formula, But Not Necessarily for the Better

After over a year of movie delays, Marvel is back on schedule. Only a few short months after the last theatrical installment (Shang-Chi, in September), the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues with Eternals. Based on the characters in the Marvel comics of the same name written by Jack Kirby and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chloé Zhao, Eternals follows a group of super-powered beings who have been on Earth for centuries. 

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Review: It’s Hard to Understand What Exactly is Going On in ‘Bliss’

In the press notes for his new movie Bliss, I Origins director Mike Cahill states that it’s “your typical sci-fi story, but it’s also a love story, but it’s also a father-daughter story at the same time.” That is probably as good and as efficient a summary as you are going to find for this sometimes engaging but wholly frustrating and incomplete Amazon Prime release. Starring the always-appealing Owen Wilson (who unfortunately never says “wow” in this movie) and Salma Hayek, Bliss is an unusual cinematic journey, in that has a decent premise and story but slowly descends into a strange rough patch-filled madness that even the cast and crew themselves don’t seem to understand. Continue reading “Review: It’s Hard to Understand What Exactly is Going On in ‘Bliss’” →

Review: ‘Like a Boss’ is Bad, Even by Dump Month Standards

Going into Like a Boss after being bombarded with trailers on network television, I didn’t expect much. I thought that this was going to be bad movie the way that I thought Jexi was, as in “a dumb premise that’s so bad it’s funny”, but unfortunately that was far from the case, because this movie is just…bad.

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