Usually Star Trek: Enterprise is cited as the moment when Trek “lost it.” I think it was a little earlier, with Star Trek: Voyager. Which is painful to say; I grew up watching Voyager almost as much as the previous two. I clearly remember going and buying VHS tapes (each containing two whole episodes!) which…
Tag: action
Review: Captain America: Brave New World
An MCU paint-by-numbers. It is perfectly serviceable, but doesn’t have any real punch. Sam Wilson, aka Captain America, finds an old friend being tried for attempted assassination of the American President. But upon investigating this, he finds a darker secret underneath. It isn’t uncommon knowledge that Captain America: Brave New World was in development hell…
Review: Wolf Man
It does have heart and conviction, but is a little too shallow. When husband and father Blake learns of his own father’s death, he takes his family to his woodland home to settle affairs. However, things quickly go wrong as something in the woods is hunting them. Wolf Man comes to us as the second…
Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 3
In a rare turn of fate, the third in a film series is the best one? Sonic, a high speed creature from another world, has a new adversary: Shadow. But even with his friends, he might need to make an unlikely alliance to thwart this new foe. Director Jeff Fowler has had exclusivity of the…
Review: Star Trek – Deep Space Nine
The world-building continues from The Next Generation‘s template. But Deep Space Nine changes the beat and the rhythm before its done. With the liberation of the planet Bajor from Cardassian occupation, The Federation establish an outpost nearby. But before they even settle in on the old Cardassian station, a wormhole is discovered. Not only does…
Review: Gladiator 2
A movie that’s perhaps 15 years too late. A man loses his home and his wife to the conquering Roman Empire. Enlisted as a gladiator, he seeks revenge. But his past will rise up to greet him, setting him on a different path. Academy Award winning movie Gladiator was released in the year 2000, and…
Review: The Crow (2024)
Another example were legacies die and audiences are left bereft. Two escapees from a rehab facility, Eric and Shelly, are murdered. But Eric’s soul returns from the afterlife to seek answers and vengeance. Director Rupert Sanders doesn’t have a great track record. Snow White and the Huntsman in 2012 and the live action Ghost in…
Review: The Crow (1994)
It can’t rain all the time. Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally murdered, Eric returns from the dead to lay vengeance upon the drug gang that killed them. Released in 1994 and directed by Alex Proyas, The Crow is a visually striking revenge film based off the comics of the same name. It has…
Review: Alien – Romulus
New tricks elevate Alien: Romulus. But there’s an evil lurking inside of it. A group of young friends, in seeing their bleak futures working in a mining colony until they die, seek escape. But when escape leads them to an abandoned research station, they discover something horrific. It is safe to say that the Alien…
Review: Borderlands
All the progress made for the video game adaptation… undone. Lilith, a bounty hunter, returns to her home planet of Pandora in search of a business CEO’s daughter who has been kidnapped. Little does she know, this girl’s fate is entwined with opening a legendary vault, containing unparalleled power. Borderlands was a hit video game…