Soylent Green: A Mark Bousquet Review

I’ve never watched SOYLENT GREEN because I know how it ends. Dumb. If you are like me and have avoided watching the movie because you know the big twist (which I won’t give away on the odd chance you’ve never heard of the film), rectify that mistake. Because while I knew where SOYLENT ended up, […]

Logan’s Run: A Mark Bousquet Review

Come for the set designs, stick around for the costumes, marvel at how the power of Farrah Fawcett’s feathered hairstyle is impervious to the passing of centuries, and do your best to ignore everything else. LOGAN’S RUN is never better than an okay, but is nonetheless so 1970s it is well worth a watch. It […]

The Twilight Zone Season Two Review by Sean E. Ali

If there were a theme running through the second season of Jordan Peele’s reboot of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, it would be called… …the mean season. Peele still sticks to the spirit of Rod Serling’s brainchild, but there are a lot of episodes that would’ve fit more in the horror vein as a continuation of Serling’s […]

The Rise of Skywalker

2019 Lucasfilm/Bad Robot Productions/Walt Disney Studios Directed by J.J. Abrams Produced by Kathleen Kennedy/Michelle Rejwan/J.J. Abrams Screenplay by Chris Terrio/J.J. Abrams Story by Derek Connolly/Colin Trevorrow/Chris Terrio/J.J. Abrams Based on characters created by George Lucas Music by John Williams Cinematography by Dan Mindel Edited by Maryann Brandon/Stefan Grube First off, we need to get one […]

Ad Astra

2019 20th Century Fox/Regency Enterprises/Bona Film Group/New Regency/Plan B Entertainment/RT Features/Keep Your Head Productions/MadRiver Pictures Directed by James Gray Produced by Brad Pitt/Dede Gardener/Jeremy Kleiner/James Gray/Anthony Katagas/Rodrigo Teixeira/Arnon Milchan Written by James Gray/Ethan Gross Music by Max Richter Cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema Edited by John Axelrod/Lee Haugen Y’know, considering the obsession the United States […]

How It Ends

2018 Paul Schiff Productions/Netflix Directed by David M. Rosenthal Produced by Paul Schiff/Tai Duncan/Kell McCormick/Patrick Newall Written by Brooks McLaren Occasionally I’ll get an email from a Faithful Reader of my reviews that will ask me something along these lines; “Why is it that you never seem to write bad reviews? It’s as if you […]

The Cloverfield Paradox

2018 Paramount Pictures/Bad Robot Productions/Netflix Directed by Julius Onah Produced by J. J. Abrams/Lindsey Webber Screenplay by Oren Uziel Story by Oren Uziel/Doug Jung I have to give credit to the brains behind the marketing of the “Cloverfield” movies. I hope that whoever had the idea of not only dropping a trailer for THE CLOVERFIELD […]

The Shape of Water

2017 TSG Entertainment/Double Dare You Productions/Fox Searchlight Pictures Directed by Guillermo del Toro Produced by Guillermo del Toro/J. Miles Dale Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro/Vanessa Taylor Story by Guillermo del Toro So we’re out shopping, Patricia and I. Not really for anything special, mind you. More to get out of the house than anything else. […]

Blade Runner 2049

Alcon Entertainment/Columbia Pictures/Scott Free Productions/Torridon Films/16:14 Entertainment/Thunderbird Entertainment/Warner Bros./Sony Pictures Directed by Denis Villeneueve Produced by Andrew A. Kosove/Broderick Johnson/Bud Yorkin/Cynthia Sikes Yorkin Screenplay by Hampton Fancher/Michael Green Story by Hampton Fancher Based on characters from “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick Based on his past track record with me, I […]

Life

2017 Columbia Pictures/Skydance Media Directed by Daniel Espinosa Produced by David Ellison/Dana Goldberg/Bonnie/Julie Lynn Written by Rhett Reese/Paul Wernick See, it’s a good thing that I let a couple of hours pass by between my seeing a movie and writing a review. Because if I had written a review of LIFE right after coming out […]