Category: Movies

That War of the Worlds exists at all is a miracle of the modern age, though it becomes less so as you examine the details of its birth. You see, this is an Amazon production. Amazon Prime, to be precise.

The main attraction to spoofs and parodies is that they make fun of something popular or familiar. Think about all of the most famous spoofs – every one of them has an explicit target.

It is more difficult to measure the median and the middling than it is to explain the excellent or the execrable. There is versatility in the language for the superlatives and the extremes; it is more difficult to engage with the entertainment that does not provoke.

I know you’re worried about Fantastic Four: First Steps. You remember the aggressively mediocre first two Fantastic Four movies featuring Jessica Alba and Chris Evans. You’ve tried to forget the atrocious reboot featuring Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan.

I’m having difficulty reviewing this film after only one sitting. It’s engaging but not entertaining, urgent, evocative of other dark contemporary Westerns like No Country for Old Men or Sicario but somehow even grimmer and less fun