The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) – 1 Overacted Hail Mary
Ben Dover The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, released in 2009, serves as a sequel to the 1999 film The Boondock Saints. The storyline picks up eight years after the events…
The Boondock Saints (1999) – 1.0 Dramatic Fingerwags
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus) are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown…
Only God Forgives (2013) – 2.5 Neon-Soaked Hallucinations
Only God Forgives is a 2013 action film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, featuring Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Vithaya Pansringarm. The film is set in Bangkok, Thailand, and…
The Collector (2009): 3 out of 5 Hardware Horrors
The Collector is a 2009 American horror film directed by Marcus Dunstan, co-written by Dunstan and Patrick Melton. It stars Josh Stewart as Arkin O’Brien, a handyman and ex-convict who,…
Waterworld (1995): 2.5 Leaky Sailboats
Waterworld is a 1995 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Kevin Reynolds, featuring Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, and Jeanne Tripplehorn. The film is set in a dystopian future where the…
Coco (2017) – 4.5 out of 5 marigolds.
Despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, young Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself…
Batman (1989) – 4.5 Brooding Batarangs
Batman (1989) is a superhero film directed by Tim Burton, which marked the first feature film adaptation of the Batman character from DC Comics. Having witnessed his parents’ brutal murder…
Freaky (2020) – 3.5 Blood-Soaked Pom-Poms
Freaky has seventeen-year-old Millie Kessler who spends her days trying to survive high school and the cruel actions of the popular crowd. But when she becomes the latest target of…
Jackie Chan’s First Strike (1996) – 3.5 Bruised Stuntmen
In First Strike, Chan plays a Hong Kong cop named Jackie who is enlisted by the CIA to track down a missing nuclear warhead. The plot unfolds as Jackie works…
Repulsion (1965) – 5 Cracked Mirrors
In Roman Polanski’s first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole (Catherine Deneuve) suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen (Yvonne Furneaux),…