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The Life List (2025) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
The Life List (2025) For everyone who’s still figuring it out. It’s always nice when a film you expect to coast by with clichés actually has more heart, humor and sincerity than you bargained for — and The Life List is exactly that. Netflix’s The Life List could so easily have been another forgettable romantic…
Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) A new era is born. The opener slaps. Cleanly staged, tense without yelling, and it announces director Gareth Edwards’ MO straight away: show just enough, trust scale and sound design, then pull back before spectacle turns to slurry. Across two hours, that restraint mostly holds. This is confident, widescreen dinosaur cinema…
Y2K (2024) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Y2K (2024) New Years Eve, 1999, The Last Party Before Y2K Remember when everyone genuinely thought the world might end on New Year’s Eve 1999? Y2K, directed by Saturday Night Live vetren Kyle Mooney (his feature debut) and co-written with Evan Winter, turns that millennial paranoia into a campy teen horror-comedy — but only half-hits…
My Oxford Year (2025) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
My Oxford Year (2025) One year can change everything. Adapted from Julia Whelan’s popular novel, My Oxford Year arrives on Netflix with the promise of sweeping romance, picturesque backdrops, and a tragic edge designed to tug at the heartstrings. Directed by Iain Morris, best known for comedies like The Inbetweeners (2008-10) and The Festival (2018),…
Weapons (2025) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Weapons (2025) And they never came back. Spoiler Warning: The following review contains major plot revelations from Weapons — proceed only if you’ve seen the film or don’t mind knowing its secrets. At exactly 2:17 a.m., seventeen elementary school children in the quiet American suburb of Maybrook rise from their beds and vanish into the…
Freakier Friday (2025) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Freakier Friday (2025) Friday is about to get freaky ... again. Some family traditions are worth repeating — even if the spell gets a little tangled this time. Two decades on, Disney’s body-swap comedy gets the legacy-sequel treatment, and the headline news is this: Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan show up ready to play.…
The Naked Gun (2025) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
The Naked Gun (2025) The law’s reach never stretched this far. If comedy is a tightrope, The Naked Gun (2025) doesn’t so much walk it as barrel-roll across in clown shoes while juggling anvils. This slick, 85-minute reboot of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker classic is loud, silly, and gleefully chaotic — packed with enough slapstick and sight…
Beau is Afraid (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Beau is Afraid (2023) From his darkest fears comes the greatest adventure. Having terrified us with the one-two punch of instant horror classics Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019), freshly-minted genre royalty Ari Aster pivots to comedy for a change of pace. Yes, comedy; Aster’s third film, Beau is Afraid, is freakin’ hilarious — although, as…
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) Everyone hungers for something. Were we champing at the bit to learn how Donald Sutherland’s Machiavellian President Coriolanus Snow schemed his way to power in the years before the original The Hunger Games (novel or film works, but I’m talking primarily about the latter)? I…
The Creator (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
The Creator (2023) This is a fight for our very existence. Let’s get one thing out of the way first — The Creator, Godzilla director Gareth Edwards’ first film since he was relieved of command on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, circa 2016, isn’t a bad film. It’s merely okay. It is visually stunning,…
Evil Dead Rise (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Evil Dead Rise (2023) Mommy loves you to death. To put it bluntly, Evil Dead Rise fucking rocks! For decades now, I’ve been clamoring for a direct follow-up to Sam Raimi’s batshit bonkers Army of Darkness (1992), which was teased in Fede Álvarez’s gloriously bloody Evil Dead remake (2013). Groovy! And while the three brilliantly…
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) No way back, one way out. Five stars. I am going to spoil the living hell out of John Wick: Chapter 4 in this review, but that five-star score tells you all you need to know. Go with God. In the end, it’s all about death. Most action movies are,…
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) Plumbing’s our game. Being a long-time fan of the Mario Bros., an arcade/ videogame series developed and published by Nintendo in 1983, Illumination’s animated The Super Mario Bros. Movie was everything I could have hoped for and more. The film is guaranteed to please avid and die-hard fans of…
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) No Experience Necessary. For most, the term ‘epic fantasy’ would probably conjure up thoughts of massive armies marching towards one another — Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy usually comes to mind — or something serious, dark, and gritty such as HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011-19). But,…
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) Oh. My. Gods. Four years ago, David F. Sandberg’s Shazam! proved to be a breath of fresh air in the DC Extended Universe, which, at the time, was being criticized for being too bleak and broody. You see, Shazam!, although still kind of dark in its own right, was…
Champions (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Champions (2023) Every dream team starts somewhere. Directed by Bobby Farrelly — famous for helming quirky comedies such as There’s Something About Mary (1998) and Me, Myself & Irene (2000) — Champions is a mighty effort for filmmaker Farrelly junior, who parts from older brother Peter for his solo directorial debut. In the past, the…
Creed III (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Creed III (2023) You Can’t Run From Your Past. In 2015, filmmaker Ryan Coogler found a way to breathe new life into Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky series, revitalizing the decades-old boxing saga by giving us a spin-off with a new protagonist to follow in Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis ‘Donnie’ Creed. And Coogler and Jordan’s hard work…
Cocaine Bear (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Cocaine Bear (2023) Get in line. “A bear did cocaine,” a character states at one point in director Elizabeth Banks’ grisly horror-comedy Cocaine Bear. A goofy, gory B-grade feature in the spirit of films like Snakes on a Plane (2006) and even 2013’s Sharknado, it’s hard to believe that Cocaine Bear is actually inspired by…
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) Witness the beginning of a new dynasty. Ironically, in the MCU, Ant-Man has always been a smaller hero — his films aren’t as ‘must see’ as others, the Ant-Man movies focusing on more personal, small-scale stories; and, as a result, their box office receipts have been lesser than some…
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Return to Pandora. To cut a long story short, twelve years after the events of Avatar, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), now permanently in his part-Na’vi Avatar body, his Na’vi wife Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), and their passel of kids, both blood and adopted, leave their home Omaticaya clan after the…
Scream (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Scream (2022) It’s Always Someone You Know There’s no denying it, Wes Craven’s Scream redefined teen horror in the mid to late 1990s with its fresh spin on the slasher genre. Taking its cues from the Friday the 13th series, Scream (which we review here) stood out due to its cleverness and wit, as well…
Blonde (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Blonde (2022) Watched by all. Seen by none. I’m not a fan. Of Blonde, I mean. Marilyn Monroe, I like just fine — The Misfits (1961) is my favorite film of hers, which should surprise precisely no one. Andrew Dominik, Chopper (2000), I like just fine; in point of fact, up until now, I’d have…
M3GAN (2023) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
M3GAN (2023) She’s more than a toy. She’s family. Screenwriter Akela Cooper brought to life one of the most bonkers horror films in recent memory with her script for James Wan’s Malignant (2021). Again, working with Wan and Kiwi director Gerard Johnstone, Housebound (2014), her sense of the absurd is in full display in the…
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (2022) Open your mind to fear. Who better to host an anthology horror series than Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro? The Mexican fantasist has a deep love of the genre in all its variations, but his fannish love is coupled with a serious academic bent; simply put, Guillermo del Toro…
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) This Christmas, celebrate the untold story of an icon. “From the writer of Bohemian Rhapsody” has to be one of the least effective ways to market a movie. Unfortunately, in the case of the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody, it’s also the most honest. Every pitfall…
Halloween Ends (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Halloween Ends (2022) Explaining the muddled history of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers would be exhausting not only in practice but to read. There are no doubt many wikis out there that can fill you in with the interconnectivity (or not) of the thirteen films under the Halloween banner. For the purposes…
Black Adam (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Black Adam (2022) The world needed a hero. It got Black Adam. Superhero fatigue is a very real thing, and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s explosive entry into the superhero genre Black Adam — a project he’s been trying to bring to our screens for over a decade — suffers due to a tiring sameness that’s…
Don’t Worry Darling (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Don’t Worry Darling (2022) Welcome to Victory. Defining the line between a serviceable film and a successful one can be difficult. Are the failures in the direction, the pacing, the performances, the script? In Olivia Wilde’s sophomore feature, Don’t Worry Darling, all the above aspects have issues but what really keeps it from soaring is…
Werewolf by Night (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Werewolf by Night (2022) There’s no escaping the night. It’s a dark and stormy night in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and five of the world’s greatest monster hunters have gathered at Bloodstone Manor at the behest of Verussa Bloodstone (Harriet Sansom Harris) on the occasion of the death of her husband, Ulysses Bloodstone (Erik Beck,…
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Forever. When Chadwick Boseman tragically died in 2020, many people were skeptical about how a sequel to the excellent Black Panther (2018) could happen without the man who gave the role such gravitas and grace. Director Ryan Coogler has managed to pay extraordinary homage to the actor in Black Panther:…
Fall (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Fall (2022) Fear reaches new heights. A high-concept survival thriller, Fall largely succeeds due to its tight premise, exciting edge-of-your-seat set pieces, and a great lead performance from star Grace Caroline Currey, Shazam! (2019). The film is genuinely more frightening than recent franchise horror pictures — think last year’s middling The Conjuring: The Devil Made…
Bros (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Bros (2022) A romantic comedy that gives you all the feels. Co-written by and starring comedian Billy Eichner (whom you’ve most likely seen pop up on television here and there), Bros is selling itself as the first major studio rom-com to feature two gay men in the leading roles. Directed by Nicholas Stoller, Neighbors (2014),…
The Menu (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
The Menu (2022) Wonderful Surprises Await You All. Anyone who has ever resonated with the phrase “Eat the rich” will have their palate satisfied by Mark Mylod’s dark comedic satire/horror thriller, The Menu. Written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, The Menu is a literal knife’s edge take on consumption, the cost of obsession, and…
Barbarian (2022) – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Barbarian (2022) Some stay for a night. Some stay for a week. Some never leave. It’s a dark and stormy night, and Tess Marshall (Georgina Campbell) is in rustbelt Detroit for a job interview. She’s booked a house in a nigh-derelict neighborhood through an Airbnb-type service, and the well-kept little bungalow is the only intact…
“It’s scary, suspenseful, and emotional.” — Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson on his latest film, The Black Phone. – Mr. Movie's Film Blog
The director reteams with Sinister star Ethan Hawke for this gripping adaptation of Joe Hill’s short story. We shouldn’t dwell on it, but for a second there, director Scott Derrickson was all set to follow up his biggest budget film so far, Marvel’s Doctor Strange, with Doctor Strange 2. The received wisdom is that Derrickson,…