Infinite (2021) - Movie Review

As a general rule, I tend to like the films of Antoine Fuqua. Sure, not every film of his turns out great (The Magnificent Seven was particularly disappointing), and it’s not as if his better films are all grand masterpieces. But more times than not, when I want a solid, reliably entertaining action flick, Fuqua delivers more times than not. But even within that framework, he tends to excel a very particular brand of action cinema, one that relies more on brute force than anything in the way of uber-complicated stunts and martial arts. Which is why this release of his feels so out-of-place.

Love And Monsters (2021) - Movie Review

After absolutely crushing it last year with Spontaneous, a film I truly hope will go down as one of the most poignant statements on the Millennial generation (my generation), writer Brian Duffield seems to have found his calling in creating coming-of-age stories in truly bizarre situations. With Love And Monsters, that takes the form of Joel, a young-adult survivor of the apocalypse (basically, in stopping a meteor, we wound up mutating all of our animal life into the things that killed off most of the human population) who sets out across the wilderness to reunite with his love Aimee. It is every bit as effective as Spontaneous, and might even go a few steps further.