Letterboxd — Your life in film

In terms of horror movies involving humans in dog cages...Viljar Bøe's Good Boy is sort of like Barbarian...if Barbarian didn't bravely go for broke' in it's second half. It has it's own fairly major, if very predictable, narrative turn partway. And I would have been fine with said 'expected' turn of events...if the film, from that point onward, attempted to get any more substantive, or even weirder, than what we have already seen in the bare minimum of promotional material.…

The canned suspenseful music for this USA Network TV movie doesn't do remotely anything to elevate the "sheer terror" of stray cats that dull out less carnage than a sterilized Garfield. All the cats do in this film - the very few times we see them anyway - is climb on top of stuff and make standard cat noises...and by the way our human leads react to such, you'd think they were being acosted by some grimoire conjured demon spirit.…

I was formally introduced to the Jaimie Reyes mantle of Blue Beetle '12 years ago' with S10E18 of Smallville - I swear to god this isn't a clip from Power Rangers Samurai - only to be introduced a few years later to the former Ted Kord BB mantle with the New 52's Justice League 3000. But I never really got into either incarnations until I kept up with the Rebirth era's BB title run; with said series effectively highlighting the…

I swear that the two stars I awarded this Brian Yuzna production are 'exclusively' for director Screaming Mad George's insanely good and goopy practical monster effects. Said effects are seriously something to marvel at (and gag at). It could be argued that The Guyver's fairly tame PG-13 rating perhaps often sanitizes the "gross potential" of George's twisted talents...but there remains an authentic sheen of sliminess throughout this film - both in terms of the physical effects and figurately in regards…

Before I obligatorily simp over the animation style here...let me just say that the prefix title to Mutant Mayhem should pretty much be Teenage Mutant Turtles. As a reimagined origin story (written by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Jeff Lowe), the way this film explains just how the Turtles become so "proficient" in 'ninjutsu' feels unecessarily retooled and particularly uninspired...to the point of being comparible to the 2012 Amazing Spider-Man reboot's redundantly lazy "re-telling" of Peter Parker's origin story; where…

While I remember liking the graphic novel this is based on just fine; I very much appreciated that this cross-over adaptation outright abandons the original comics use of the "multiverse" - and therefore the exhausting supply of heedless references that come with such a {now} overused concept - and rather just focuses on visually conveying an expectedly endearing, briskly focused (and self contained) narrative...even going so far as to just firmly imply that Batman and the Turtles exist in the…