@curiosity-inc
Movie Curiosities — John Wick: Chapter 4
March 26, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
This is the end of the John Wick series. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities — Shazam: Fury of the Gods
March 22, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
It pains me to write this review, folks. I seriously feel a tangible pain setting pen to paper for this one. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Inside
March 18, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Inside is a one-man movie (more or less) in which Willem Dafoe gradually descends into stark-raving lunacy. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Creed III
March 17, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about the Creed series. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: 65
March 15, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
It seems like only yesterday when I was talking about premises that sound superficially awesome in theory, but incapable of sustaining a feature-length movie in practice. At the time, I was referring to Cocaine Bear, which was roughly fifteen minutes of actual “coked-up bear” action and roughly ninety minutes of worthless and unfunny subplots nobody gives a shit about. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Scream VI
March 13, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Let’s start with the elephant in the room. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities — Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
March 8, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Back in 2015, Guy Ritchie brought us The Man from U.N.C.L.E., a globe-trotting spy caper based on the 1960s TV show. The movie stunk. The third act was a hot mess, the chemistry between Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer was maddeningly inconsistent, and those were only two of the many talented actors who got pathetically miscast. I might add that the film wasn’t screened for critics and eventually came out to middling reviews. More importantly, the film opened at third place in the box office behind Straight Outta Compton (opening) and Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation (in its third week). With a worldwide gross of $72.1 million against a reported production budget of $75 million, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was such a catastrophic box office flop that it lost Warner Bros. an estimated $80 million at minimum. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Mother of Color
March 2, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
We got us another indie movie set and shot in Portland, which means it’s time to open up another review with a disclosure. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Cocaine Bear
February 27, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
Back in 2006, we got a little movie called Snakes on a Plane. The movie practically sold itself. With a title like that, how could it not set the internet ablaze? It’s a trashy horror flick in which animals go wild and kill off a bunch of unsympathetic cannon fodder, with Samuel L. Jackson mugging for the camera with his characteristic lack of shame. On paper, this is exactly the stuff that late-night parties and cult followings are made of. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: Emily
February 26, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
A biopic of Emily Bronte is a dicey proposition. It’s certainly an alluring topic, given that Bronte wrote a defining work of Gothic period romance. And of course Bronte’s sisters — Charlotte and Ann — turned out to be hugely influential genre authors in their own right. Tempting as it is to explore Emily’s life story and that of her family, the unfortunate downside is that there’s simply not much there. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities: We Have A Ghost
February 25, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
I’m back to typing a blog entry under lockdown, more or less. Record snowfall has swept through half the continental US, which is more than enough to shut down the entire famously snow-phobic city of Portland for a few days. So let’s see if there’s anything on streaming right now.
What’s this? My favorite composer Bear McCreary has a new project on Netflix? And it’s written/directed by Christopher Landon, the guy who previously brought us Freaky and the Happy Death Day movies (all of which were also scored by McCreary)? And it stars David Harbour just as he’s hitting the peak of his career? Sounds intriguing! Let’s see what we’ve got with We Have a Ghost. Read the rest of this entry →
Movie Curiosities — Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
February 19, 2023 in Blogs, Curiosity Inc.
The moment we first heard about what Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was about and who would be in it, red flags started going up. Read the rest of this entry →
