One Sentence Media Reviews
Another hilariously bad movie from the Boonta Vista podcast extended movie lore universe, Pontypool is very Canadian and very silly, and I can't really recommend it because it doesn't work in any way, but I guess if you are like, drunk with friends and hoping for a dumb horror movie to watch that isn't very scary but does have some gore, you could do worse.
Like most of Sanderson’s writing the Mistborn series does a lot of very midbrow storytelling and philosophizing, a lot of “compassion beats cruelty and don’t forget it”, but the thing he does so well is tell a great story with great characters in a great setting that never ceases to entertain.
I really like Eisenberg and Stewart in American Ultra so I gave this a chance but really woody allen should’ve stopped in the 70s; this was short but felt long, just schlocky, overdone, boring, self-indulgent, unbelievable, and annoying.
It’s sad when a really creative, different approach to modern storytelling falls a little flat, since so many movies today are so cookie-cutter and I’d love to see more weird ones, but parts of this one definitely worked and it was truly creative so a mild round of applause is due.
Hilariously so-bad-it’s-good slasher horror flick with immaculate late 90s vibes that in 90 minutes somehow manages to create a very poorly explained lore around haunted traveling ships and a demon with soul quotas.
This kind of mid-brow entertainment always disappoints me because I want it to either be 15% smarter, or a whole lot sillier - like if you’re gonna be serious, you gotta nail down every detail.
As a person of faceblind it’s hard for me to follow a movie with 2-3 identically haired/aged/raced/gendered people, but i hung in there and enjoyed this deep look at pope stuff - it’s true what everyone says, it seems like it would be boring, but if you watch it at 1.75x speed it really pulls you in.
Even though I guess in hindsight the whole "outsider coming to show us how our society is silly and helping people disconnect and appreciate creation" thing is a well-used trope, this 90s french film does it so so damn well, it's just gorgeous, and beautiful, and every moment of it was perfect and funny and nice, and I loved it.
I thought Greyhound was good but not great; I liked that it was taut and near real-time, but the narrative flow was a little janky and underwhelming, and by golly if this wasn’t the most serious movie, sheesh.
A gut-punch of a story; I love Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield and they play great together.
Romulus is competently executed but brings nothing new to the Alien series and lacks magic, maybe because the effects are so much more digital.
This nonfiction treatise on systems, communication and accountability is bold in its breadth, smoothly written and researched, laid out in a confusing and silly way, occasionally under-edited, but also fascinating, fun, and particularly impressive at the end.