Land of the Dead

#15 in my ranking of George A. Romero's filmography. This movie is real dumb. I know that zombie movie fans love their gore. While this film does have some quality gore, you have to get through terrible metaphor, poor storytelling, and atrocious dialogue for over an hour to get there. This honestly doesn't feel like…

Day of the Dead

#14 in my ranking of George A. Romero's filmography. I do not understand the reappraisal Day of the Dead has gotten in the years since its release. It is...not a good movie. Like, at all. It's bad. Characters are threadbare in all the wrong ways while they posture heavily. There's no real story. The world-building…

Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom

Well, it's better than the first Aquaman, at least. The sequel is a giant mess of noise and color that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but some individual pieces are lightly amusing. It's not quite the complete dredge that was the first film's road picture that never worked on any level. This is…

Black Adam

I really get the sense that Dwayne Johnson was the main creative force behind this film, that the director, Jaume Collet-Serra, provided little more than the stylistic dressing on top of the overstuffed and terribly structured story that plays out underneath. It's pretty obvious that Johnson was seeing his portrayal as the titular Black Adam…

Kull the Conqueror

#6 in my ranking of films adapted from Robert E. Howard's works. I did not think that the Laurentiis family would sink any lower in their adaptations of Robert E. Howard material than Red Sonja, but Raphaella proved me wrong! Taking a Conan script that had been sitting around forever because Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't want…