Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

An open letter to James Cameron, from a life-long fan: Stop. Just…stop. Please. Enough is enough…and three, is enough. The Avatar Detachment Phenomenon is an odd one. It’s literally the most profitable franchise in science fiction movie history…yet we never seem to talk about it. Why not? In a broad sense, it doesn’t feel like […]

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Or, as the onscreen title proclaims it – David Lean’s Film of Doctor Zhivago For years, the only relation I had with Doctor Zhivago was the title’s prominent usage in my Second Favourite Movie Ever – True Romance (1993), inserted by Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott as a clandestine place-holder for character conversations revolving around […]

John Wick Chapter 4 (2023)

As I recently noted in another review, the original John Wick (2014) caught me off guard when I first saw it. I’d gone in with next to no expectations, ready for some C grade Taken rip-off or something, especially since star Keanu Reeves hadn’t exactly been setting the Box Office on fire around that time. […]

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (2025)

For those who didn’t want to dive into that original Den of Thieves review from years gone by, I can summarize it this way – when I first opted to check that first installment out on the Big Screen, very much on a whim, I’d gone in with next to no expectations. However, much like […]

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

Ever since the first flick hit the Big Screen in that heady year of 1996, brought to unlikely life by Brian DePalma (The Untouchables), of all people, I’ll admit that I’ve been a steady fan of this strangely long-lived franchise, despite one significant caveat – I think Tom Cruise, The (possibly) Human, who plays the […]

A Revisit: Wild at Heart (1990)

David Lynch. Love him or loathe him, you have to admit that the man most certainly had his own style that he, mercifully, had not readily compromised in all his years as a prolific and highly esoteric filmmaker. His key titles are predominately dark, absurd, violent and erotic, always with a sly and subversive sense […]

A Revisit: Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

In the way back years of 2007-2011, I was a film revisor at a company in Vancouver BC called Technicolor Cinema Distribution and during my tenure there, this admittedly absurd and right-to-the-fucking-point titled flick came through my revising workspace, mildly intriguing me with it’s hefty marketing campaign and why-the-hell-not premise. While I didn’t end up […]

The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

As I’ve stated in many a past review, I’m a sucker for a good mob story and, in my humble opinion, HBO’s The Sopranos (1999-2007) is one of the straight-up best examples ever, and not just as a gangster story, but as a prime illustration on how to do long-form cinematic dramas in general. Added […]

A Revisit: A Sound of Thunder (2005)

While perusing one of my usual geek sites, I came across an article listing off a selection of unfinished films that were dumped into the market before they were 100% complete, for whatever reason. In among the handful of titles was this one. As I was reading what the article’s author had to say, I […]

A Short Film: China Lake (1983)

Robert Harmon is a director who deserved a FAR more notable career in Hollywood than he ended up with, in my humble opinion. For a man with a truly distinct and oddly mature cinematic vision, much of his career is woefully bargain-basement (at a glance), with much of it seemingly devoted to some dumped-on-cable series […]