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Wearily Wading Through Avatar: The Way of Water

January 30, 2023 by M.C. Myers
Avatar The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water is a monument to James Cameron’s business model but stutters on every other artistic or dramatic criterion imaginable.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Action, Fantasy, James Cameron, Kate Winslet, Movie Series, Sam Worthington, Science Fiction, Sequel, Zoe Saldana Leave a comment

What is Everyone’s Problem With Star Wars: The Last Jedi?

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 by M.C. Myers

Star Wars: The Last Jedi continues to be debated out of passionate frustration. This is an exploration of what’s right and wrong with this bizarre movie.

Categories Features, Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Action, Carrie Fisher, Daisey Ridley, Disney, John Boyega, Laura Dern, Mark Hamill, Movie Series, Oscar Isaac, Rian Johnson, Science Fiction, Sequel, Star Wars Leave a comment

The Crisis of Believability in A Quiet Place Part II

November 16, 2022November 12, 2022 by M.C. Myers
A Quiet Place Part II

A Quiet Place Part II tries to squeeze more sequence out of a great concept. It succeeds despite straining for believability amid conflicting rules.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Action, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Horror, John Krasinski, Movie Series, Science Fiction, Sequel Leave a comment

The Horror Dysfunction of Halloween III: Season of the Witch

October 23, 2022October 22, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Halloween III

The infamously misunderstood Halloween III is still little more than an unrefined pseudo-thriller on its own merits, unworthy of seasonal contention.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1980s, Halloween, Horror, Movie Series, Sequel Leave a comment

Why Halloween Ends is Exactly What the Series Needed

December 6, 2022October 19, 2022 by M.C. Myers

Halloween Ends has the power to finish its cluttered horror series meaningfully, even if this isn’t what some of the series’ fans were hoping for.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Halloween, Horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Myers, Sequel Leave a comment

Prey: Consent to Kill

November 16, 2022August 5, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Prey Title Image

Prey expresses a strong period aesthetic powered by fresh performances but relies on a screenplay that misplaces its series’ core values.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, 20th Century Fox, Action, Amber Midthunder, Dan Trachtenberg, Disney, Hulu, Predator, Science Fiction, Sequel Leave a comment

Obi-Wan Kenobi Part VI Review: Final Fizzle

November 14, 2022June 24, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Obi-Wan Kenobi Ewan McGregor

The final episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi gets everything to where it was going. Not even its best part could be worth the wait.

Categories Features Tags 2020s, Deborah Chow, Disney, Ewan McGregor, George Lucas, Hayden Christensen, Moses Ingram, Sequel, Star Wars, TV Show Leave a comment

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Part I-III Review

June 8, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Obi-Wan Kenobi

So far, Obi-Wan Kenobi seems to be relying more on Star Wars fans to be excited in the absence of creativity than on its own inspiration or technical ability.

Categories Features Tags 2020s, Deborah Chow, Disney, Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Science Fiction, Sequel, Star Wars, TV Series Leave a comment

Godzilla: King of the Monsters – Faithless Tribute

September 11, 2022June 1, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Godzilla King of the Monsters

Godzilla: King of the Monsters avoids the essence of its brand almost as aggressively as it avoids working on its script.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Bradley Whitford, Godzilla, Ken Watanabe, Michael Dougherty, Millie Bobby Brown, Movie Series, Sally Hawkins, Science Fiction, Sequel, Vera Farmiga 1 Comment

Exorcist II: The Heretic – Horror as Anti-Horror

January 21, 2023April 15, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Exorcist II Linda Blair

Despite its meandering awkwardness, one of the most hated horror films of all time features a compelling creative vision and the visuals of an epic.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1970s, Horror, John Boorman, Linda Blair, Movie Series, Richard Burton, Sequel, Thriller Leave a comment

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022): Glossy Legacy

March 25, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The new Texas Chainsaw Massacre film is exactly what you would expect from rebooting this dirty series into the glossed-up legacy sequel model.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2020s, Elsie Fisher, Horror, Movie Series, Sequel, Slasher, Texas Chainsaw Massacre Leave a comment

Batman Returns: Action Fairytale

February 25, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Batman Returns

Tim Burton’s Batman Returns is a dark Christmas fable, an action fairytale. It’s the whole experience of reading comics in one painful, beautiful mythology.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 1990s, Batman, Christopher Walken, Comic Book Movie, Danny DeVito, DC, Fantasy, Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Movie Series, Sequel, Superhero, Tim Burton 1 Comment

Jurassic World Dominion Trailer: How Jurassic Park Evolved Into This

June 8, 2022February 11, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Jurassic World Dominion

Jurassic World Dominion is supposed to be the climax of decades of franchise build-up. Here are my thoughts on the trailer and how this series got here.

Categories Features Tags 2020s, Chris Pratt, Colin Trevorrow, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, Laura Dern, Movie Series, Sam Neill, Science Fiction, Sequel Leave a comment

The Santa Clause 2: Carefree Christmas

May 13, 2022January 14, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Santa Clause 2 Tim Allen

The Santa Clause 2 has Tim Allen’s standup and farting reindeer, but it feels like Christmas. Let me explain why I keep watching it.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2000s, Disney, Elizabeth Mitchell, Fantasy, Movie Series, Romance, Sequel, Tim Allen Leave a comment

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Force Illusion

May 4, 2022December 6, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is as sloppy for its artists as embarrassing for its fans. It is brand mismanagement in visual form.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Action, Adam Driver, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Harrison Ford, Ian McDiarmid, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Movie Series, Oscar Isaac, Science Fiction, Sequel, Star Wars 1 Comment

Paddington 2: Steamboat Bear Jr.

December 23, 2021November 1, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Paddington 2

Paddington 2 sparkles with manners and a belief in beauty. Everyone was opening the doors for each other on the way out of the theater.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 2010s, Based on a Book, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Movie Series, Paddington, Sally Hawkins, Sequel Leave a comment

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