“My Spy: The Eternal City” is the sequel to the 2020 action comedy “My Spy”, which was originally supposed to go to theaters and then Amazon acquired it for a Prime Video release early on in the COVID pandemic. I kinda like that film. Not amazing, but unique and entertaining enough, with Dave Bautista in […]
Zack Snyder’s new zombie flick “Army of the Dead” opens with a grand, highly self-aware and mildly entertaining first 15-minutes. With a rendition of “Viva Las Vegas” blaring over an elaborate montage, we get an idea of what’s to come — at least we think we do. Zombies have taken over Sin City. Tens of […]
The first trailer for “My Spy” debuted on April 4, 2019. At the time, STX hadn’t set a theatrical release date for the action comedy (which is rare). Not long after the studio picked August 23rd. Then the film was pushed to a TBD 2020 release. That was followed by slots in January, March and, […]
Kumail Nanjiani’s live-action, starring role follow-up to his 2017 indie darling “The Big Sick” (for which he earned an Oscar nomination with his wife Emily) is a big, sickly mess. At one point during the “action comedy”, co-star Dave Bautista remarks how combining Stu (the name of Nanjiani’s character) and Uber (the ridesharing service) to […]
2014 is the year that Marvel movies have gone where the studio has never gone before. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, the highest-grossing film of ’14 to date, perfectly mixed the action and political thriller genres. And now with “Guardians of the Galaxy”, one of Marvel’s best ever, director James Gunn has created an outer […]