The prospect of an even nominally faith-based film will give certain audiences an allergic reaction regardless of whatever content or merits the actual piece has. One way filmmakers could in theory get around this is by offering a distinctly harder-edged alternative to religious-centric stories. Enter this Mark Wahlberg vanity project directed by Mel Gibson’s girlfriendContinue reading “Father Stu. Quick Review.”
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Infinite. Quick Review.
Mark Wahlberg is a generation-spanning being who can recall all his past lives. He gets embroiled in a fight against a nihilistic organisation with a similar power set in this slice of stogey sci-fi. The film has been slowly passed out as a former studio film cast-off to streaming over the past year. It’s notContinue reading “Infinite. Quick Review.”
Scoob. Movie Review
The initial theatrical trailers for the latest attempt to bring Scooby-Doo back to the big screen looked rather promising. Then the pandemic hit, and the film was one of the first shuffled off the theatrical schedule and released as a premium VOD rental. This was irritating for viewers like this writer who was keen toContinue reading “Scoob. Movie Review”
McMillions$. (HBO) Review
Sky have been launching new channels and offshoots left right and centre as of recently. One of their big launch titles for their documentary offshoot was this six-part HBO limited documentary series telling the story of how an employee at the outsourced marketing company for McDonald’s defrauded the company out of $20,000,000 by stealing winning tickets for their popularContinue reading “McMillions$. (HBO) Review”
Lockdown Streaming Reviews. #1 Spencer Confidential. (Netflix.)
Do you want to know what a modern CBS procedural would look like if it was R rated and had insane tonal whiplash? Well Peter Berg (who has made some solid films in the past) has gone into full Battleship and Mile 22 mode to show you just that with this remake of an ABCContinue reading “Lockdown Streaming Reviews. #1 Spencer Confidential. (Netflix.)”