Tag: Jim Wallace

[B]y today’s standards, ... Halloween, even digitally restored and remastered, is now just pretty good instead of excellent.

[Alien is] at an A level in every way but one: its plot, which is that of a B movie.

Alien’s A-level directing, acting, visuals, and sound can no longer quite cover for its B-movie premise ... and “idiot plot,” [but] it’s a solidly good movie even by today’s standards[.]

[T]he insipid and increasingly absurd Ad Astra feels more like an art house film than a monomythic adventure with the highest physical, psychological, and philosophical stakes.

[The Boys] doesn’t feel “subversive and outrageous” [but has] a [strong] and ... satisfying plotline, ... MCU-level VFX[, and a] superb ending[.]