Coming soon, 14 Juni 2026

Seen before a screening of The Furious at Point.

I saw the trailer for this and it reminded me a lot of The Raid. The plot is fairly simple here: a mute gentleman's daughter is kidnapped and he endeavors to rescue her. He meets up with another fellow who is looking for his wife who was investigating the abductions of children and they team up as they have common cause and both are exceptional martial artists.

And so there are lots of lots of fights that seem to go on for hours. Don't get me wrong, they're fun, at first, but I get lost quickly with all those quick cuts and a bit bored as the fights reach the 10 minute mark. They're just interminable.

One fight scene takes place in a refrigerator factory and our heroes seemingly put down one of the bad guy's henchmen, Ho, who is built like a brick shithouse. Towards the end of the movie Ho quite remarkably regains consciousness and makes his way to the police station where the two heroes are locked in mortal combat with two really bad baddies. Thus we get this five-way conflagration that was chaotic fun until it wasn't.

I knew what I was getting into here and went because I wanted to spend time with my friend. And these types of movies aren't torture. The theater was, I think, the smallest at Point but it was fairly well populated.

 

  

Coming soon, 22 April 2026

Seen before a showing of Normal which was a hoot. I did not expect the mayor, played by Henry Winkler, to get blown up. Hehe. I was, however, disappointed at the lack of regional Minnesota accent and dialect. No mention of hotdish at the potluck. Oh well. Still, it's always good to have a Ben Wheatley movie.

 

Oceans Eleven's 25th anniversary is this year so it is returning theaters.

Coming soon, 29 March 2026

Seen before a screening of Alpha which I thought was OK. I enjoyed the themes of family and loyalty but found that it was a bit too dark for my current mindset. The fault, dear reader, is not in Julia Ducournau, but in myself.

Sadly I cannot find a trailer for Passenger, a horror flick from Norwegian director André Øvredal. It looked overly laden with jump scares and so didn't pique my interest. However, Øvredal directed three very fine to excellent flicks: Trollhunter, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, and The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Maybe the trailer just isn't doing it justice.

This was a red-band trailer.