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.

Mighty Oak (2020) - Movie Review

Of all the family-friendly features I’ve covered on here, this has got to be one of the strangest. Not because it contains anything all that bizarre as far as content; it’s more how that content is framed. Put simply, this is what happens when a Disney Channel Original movie tries to be ‘edgy’.

A Dog's Purpose (2017) - Movie Review

Even though I have a dog at home myself, I’ve never really gotten the “point” of having pets. I see ordinary life for your standard human as complicated enough to get through without needing to simultaneously take care of a living thing that just barely counts in terms of intelligent life. I mean, people seem to take care better of their dogs than they do themselves; they certainly dress their canines better than themselves sometimes, I’ll tell you that for a fact. However, that’s not to say that I’m against it or anything like that; there’s a reason why cute pet videos still dominate the Internet to this day, and some of them are legitimately heart-warming by showing just how much animals mean to their owners. Such a shame that film never really seems able to translate that properly, with the box-office curse that is the talking animal movie still very much in effect.

 

So, as I continue dreading the point where I end up watching last year’s chatty-cat failure Nine Lives (or Mr. Fuzzypants as it was retitled over here, because fuck knows that I’m not embarrassed enough to watch the bloody thing), let’s take a look at this recent shaggy offering.