Let me start by saying I’ve never been the biggest fan of spoof comedies—the kind of films where jokes fly so fast you don’t have time to decide if the last one was even funny. Slapstick and wordplay, pratfalls and puns—it’s not the flavor I usually crave. That said, I try to watch movies on… Continue reading The Naked Gun (2025)- not a bad remake of a classic spoof
Month: July 2025
Movie News: Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place – Now on PBS POV
POV, the multi-Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary series, presents Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place, directed by Juan Mejía Botero (Death by a Thousand Cuts), which chronicles Francia Márquez’s extraordinary journey from a rural grassroots activist to a history-making presidential campaign in Colombia. The powerful documentary was produced by Juan Mejía Botero, Juan E. Yepes,… Continue reading Movie News: Igualada: Refusing to Know Your Place – Now on PBS POV
Movie Review: THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS PRESENTS WORLD BUILDING AT ITS BEST IN THE MCU
After multiple attempts to reenvision Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four cinematically, the MCU finally got it right. For some strange reason, every effort to adapt “Marvel’s first family” on the big screen has failed to give comic book fans what they have wanted so badly. Well, the fourth attempt is the charm. Now, I say this… Continue reading Movie Review: THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS PRESENTS WORLD BUILDING AT ITS BEST IN THE MCU
Oh Hi – a scathing and wild satire on dating
I do like dark satire—and when it’s done well, there’s nothing more cathartic. Oh, Hi! isn’t perfect, but it commits hard to its tone, and I appreciate the audacity of that. Writer-director Sophie Brooks clearly has something to say about gender roles, dating clichés, and the way post-breakup narratives get warped—and she says it through… Continue reading Oh Hi – a scathing and wild satire on dating
Happy Gilmore 2 – a nostalgic sideshow built for longtime Adam Sandler fans
Happy Gilmore 2, now streaming on Netflix, is less a standalone film than a nostalgic sideshow built for longtime Adam Sandler fans. It leans heavily on callbacks and cameos, functioning more like a reunion special than a sequel with fresh legs. That said, for anyone who remembers the original’s crude charm, this return visit might… Continue reading Happy Gilmore 2 – a nostalgic sideshow built for longtime Adam Sandler fans
Eddington – A Muddled, Maddening Patchwork of Wasted Potential
Sitting through Eddington felt like revisiting the worst days of 2020 — not just emotionally, but narratively. For a film that’s clearly aiming to capture the chaos, fear, and social upheaval of that moment in history, it ends up feeling more like a confused collection of headlines than a cohesive story. Directed by Ari Aster,… Continue reading Eddington – A Muddled, Maddening Patchwork of Wasted Potential
Crítica de cine: Eddington – Es una historia bastante interesante con vista a la Sociedad
Sinopsis: En mayo de 2020, un enfrentamiento entre un sheriff de un pequeño pueblo (Joaquin Phoenix) y el alcalde (Pedro Pascal) enciende una situación explosiva, ya que los vecinos se enfrentan entre sí en Eddington, Nuevo México. Escrito y dirigido por Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau Is Afraid), se centra en la América de un… Continue reading Crítica de cine: Eddington – Es una historia bastante interesante con vista a la Sociedad
Movie Review: EDDINGTON Sadly Reflects The Current State Of Our World
Always a provocateur, Ari Aster delivers a new film that sharply satirizes the current state of the U.S. and its origins. While this movie is very different for the filmmaker, Eddington shows that Aster is capable of doing much more than horror and the unusual. I did not know exactly what to expect from his… Continue reading Movie Review: EDDINGTON Sadly Reflects The Current State Of Our World
Movie Review: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (2025) Relies Too Much On Nostalgia
To be completely transparent, I was never a big fan of the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise. It just feels like a cheap knockoff and cash grab on the success of the first Scream movie. The movies in this series were popular enough to inspire movie producers to create a legacy sequel,… Continue reading Movie Review: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (2025) Relies Too Much On Nostalgia
Eddington
So Much Dread that the Audience Cannot Help But Squirm In Their Seats or Laugh Out Loud Coming out of this film, one of the first thoughts I had was how it’s the second time we’ve watched Joaquin Phoenix end up in a wheelchair, but that this was a far more compelling and thrilling journey… Continue reading Eddington