Follows Korean independence activists who launched a daring attack in Harbin against the Japanese to gain their country’s independence. […]
Film Preview: Harbin (2024)
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024)
A brilliant idea to set a ‘warring gangs’ action film in the iconic if long-demolished Kowloon Walled City, but this comic book adaptation feels numbingly empty with its stylistic excesses a tonal mismatch with the more sobering space of marginality and exploitation.
Thelma
It’s been two years since her husband passed away and Thelma Post (June Squibb) is adjusting to her new reality. She’s 93 years old and fiercely independent. While Thelma spends most of her days home alone ,she keeps in frequent contact with her grandson Daniel (Fred Hechinger) and her daughter Gail (Parker Posey). One day […]
The Old Man (Season 2)
The pacing retreats to more of a family drama than a rocket of espionage intrigue but Bridges and Lithgow make a helluva duo – even if they are getting too old for this shit.
’65’ (2023) – Film Review
Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods Cast: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt Review Author: Tony Synopsis: After crash-landing on prehistoric Earth, only two survivors must navigate the hostile terrain and fend off vicious creatures to ensure their survival. I’ve always had a soft spot for schlock in my genre films, so when Hollywood decides to splurge on a B-movie […]
Napoleon
Napoleon can be a good war epic, but the character development made Napoleon hateable and not interesting!!! Real Rating: 3.5 Cannons What I Like: -The battle scenes were epic, director Ridley Scott executed some mind blowing effects that will keep you engaged The So So: -The acting was good in certain aspects, but as for […]
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) on Amazon is a $60 million budget action-comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie which bombed at the box office but is doing rather well on streaming. The film is based on the book Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien […]
Movie Review: Cesium Fallout (焚城)
With China’s heavy hand of censorship now firmly on the neck of the Hong Kong film industry, our filmmakers have learned they must toe the line if they wish to secure both funding and distribution for their projects. Gone are the days when corrupt police or government officials feature prominently in local stories because, we […]
The Crow (2024) Review
In the world of filmmaking, the term “remake” usually comes up as a “double edge” sword within its undertaking and overall execution. For the good part, it allows filmmakers to revisit an old property and reinvent for a modern audiences offering up a new […]
Civil War (2024) Review
It’s basically Heart of Darkness but with a really long road instead of a river. Or Apocalypse Now, if you’re unfamiliar with the above. But it’s not an adaptation, just quite inspired by. Now if we said every movie that consisted of a long journey in war time, we could get silly and say everything […]
Renfield (2023)
A wildly entertaining, gory action-horror-comedy where Nicolas Cage as Dracula is everything you could have imagined. Renfield may seem like the the latest vampire offering from Hollywood, but it’s much more than that. Showcasing a new take on the character of Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage) and his devoted assistant/familiar R. M. Renfield (Nicholas Hoult), this comedy-horror […]
The Beekeeper (2024) Review
A CLASSIC (YET IMPERFECT) “ONE MAN ARMY” FLICK Within the action film genre, there lies a storied tradition of narrative storytelling that derives from the classic (yet always beloved) “one man army” yarn. There have been many of these films across the many decades of action cinematic history, yet they all roughly remain the […]
FLIGHT RISK (2024): New Trailer Starring Mark Wahlberg, Topher Grace, Michelle Dockery…
Directed by Mel Gibson; Flight Risk is a new action/thriller starring Mark Wahlbeg, Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace. One in which not all parties aboard a very important flight are who they say they are. First came Jason Bateman as a terrorist in Carry-On (2024). Now we have Wahlberg, who’s usually a hero who saves […]
Road House review “The ballad of Conor McGregor”
Adam Brannon reviews the 2024 remake of Road House, by director Doug Liman. But is it any good?
Road House review “The ballad of Conor McGregor”
The Convert
‘Only those who have been at sea can grasp the enormousness of the world,’ we’re told during Lee Tamahori’s plush historical epic of deadly muskets and Christianity on the rocks; even a 21st century land-lubber can understand the wrongs of imperialism. We’re out and about in 1830, in and around the Tasmanian Sea, where there’s […]
“Twisters” Movie Review
Reacher: Season 1 – TV Review
What we get here is a solid action series that hits all the beats it needs to do, not revolutionary, but still solid. Disclosure – I paid for the Amazon Prime subscription that viewed this series. Reacher Review – When I first heard there would be a new Reacher series, my first impressions […]
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
I have the fondest memories of watching Top Gun back in 1986. It was a great year, I was in my second year in Junior College and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I was just living in the moment and hanging around with friends every chance I got. My […]
Money Heist – Season 3 – Overview and Review
And here we are at the final overview and review for Money Heist! It honestly feels kind of emotional since I’ve invested so much time to watch and write about the show! Anyways welcome to another edition of Explore With Me / The Couch Potato! This is an overview post of Season 3 but you […]
Explore With Me : Money Heist – Season 3 – Overview and Review
DUNE – A Cinematic and Momentous Sci-Fi Epic
Denis Villeneuve delivers with a rich, dense, and layered adaption—executed with incredible performances throughout. With mythology and world-building on par with The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, Dune is cinematic and momentous. Considered among many circles as one of the hardest stories to adapt, Frank Herbert’s science fiction epic has been attempted in the past. None, however, come […]
DUNE – A Cinematic and Momentous Sci-Fi Epic