Quantcast
Channel: movie reviews – The Flickering Screen
Browsing index pages (127 articles)

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The alien space-octopus will eat your ass: “Life”

Life arrives just in time to offer itself up as a corrective to the critically-adored The Arrival—a movie everyone went gaga over, despite its ludicrous premise. I mean, let’s be realistic here:...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Only two super powers could make something this gloriously stupid: “The Great...

Not since a giant robot used an oil tanker as a baseball bat to club a sea monster into submission in Pacific Rim has a movie embraced its own glorious dumbness with as much aplomb as The Great Wall....

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Rage, rage against the dying of the…eh, never mind: “Resident Evil: The Final...

Since it’s got the word final right there in the title, I have to assume that Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is indeed the last installment of this brain-dead franchise to grace the silver screen....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

REPOST: Return of the living (brain) dead franchise: Resident Evil: Retribution”

[In preparation for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter I thought I’d repost some of my reviews of earlier installments…you know, so you’re all caught up on the labyrinthine mythology of this series.]...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

REPOST: Milla Jovovich (and husband) will eat your brain! “Resident Evil:...

[In preparation for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter I thought I’d repost some of my reviews of earlier installments…you know, so you’re all caught up on the labyrinthine mythology of this series.]...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

CGI Hellhounds Will Eat Your Face (or maybe they won’t): “The Bye Bye Man”

Well, it’s January—that time of the year when Hollywood wakes from the booze-and-coke-fueled bender it went on to celebrate the holiday releases, squints bleary-eyed at all of dopes looking to buy...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Shredded like cheese: “The Legend of Tarzan”

Have a gander at my video review of The Legend of Tarzan, in which a hyper-shredded Swede saves Africa with the help of a bunch of bad CGI animals. While you’re at it, check out my review of the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Bozo breaks bad: “Clown”

Check out my video review of 2016’s (or 2014’s…or 2010’s) Clown directed by Jon Watts, who I refer to as Joe Watts, because I’m a moron).

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Invade me twice, shame on me: “Independence Day: Resurgence”

  1996’s Independence Day was a perfect summer movie. It had a big budget, eye-popping special effects, arresting visuals, and some charismatic actors. Also, it was dumber than a retarded opossum,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

RIP Anton Yelchin: “Fright Night”

You know Hollywood is deep in the Dead Horse Seas of creative bankruptcy when they remake a movie like 1985’s Fright Night. I mean, it’s not like the movie was any kind of a high water mark of ‘80s...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

When raising the dead, just follow the rules: “The Other Side of the Door”

  Well, it’s Oscar time again, and apparently the movie gods felt the best way to honor this hallowed event was to dump a couple of movies into my local theaters that could only owe their existence to...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

And that secret is it’s a bad movie: “Secret in Their Eyes”

Secret in Their Eyes wants to be a prestige Oscar-bait picture really badly. I mean, really, really badly. Like Blofeld-wants-to-kill-James-Bond bad. I mean, look at everything stuffed into it: The...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

RIP Vanity: “Action Jackson”

Poor Action Jackson. It’s like the dinosaur that just keeps on scampering through the jungle, blithely ignoring the funnel of ash kicked up by the meteorite that hit yesterday. In other words, it was...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The January doldrums continue: “The Boy”

Well, it’s still January, and Hollywood is making damn well sure know it by continuing to make us suffer for the unpardonable crime of wanting to see a movie a month after the holiday season. The...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Criminally Overlooked: “He Never Died”

When you come across a movie with a title like He Never Died, which stars Henry Rollins, and features a poster with Rollins bellowing like a Trump supporter at a feminist poetry-slam, well, you gotta...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Criminally Overlooked: “Last Man Standing”

New Line Cinemas might have been forgiven for thinking they had a sure-fire hit—or at least a modest box office winner—with Last Man Standing. After all, here was a bang-bang-shoot-‘em-up action film...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The alien invasion is really lame: “The 5th Wave”

At some point in the past ten years, Young Adult novels stopped being about young female protagonists falling in love with various supernatural creatures (who then compete for her affections) and...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

All the better to KILL you with, my dear: “The Visit”

Ordinarily, a new movie from M. Night Shyamalan is met with the anticipation reserved for a meteor hurtling toward your home, or the digestion of two day-old sushi. Sure, the spectacle of the carnage...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Feeling the January-movie blues: “The Forest”

  Well, it’s January. Know how I can tell (aside from, you know, being cognizant of the date)? It’s because the new releases in the cinema is stuff like The Forest. Yeah, January is when Hollywood...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Criminally Overlooked: “Blackhat”

As an avowed fan of Michael Mann, release of his 2015 film Blackhat was a somewhat bittersweet affair. Mann isn’t a prolific filmmaker, so any new film he makes is cause for excitement. But Blackhat...

View Article
Browsing index pages (127 articles)


Latest Images