An insanely twisted and imaginative journey through regret, guilt and anxiety that leads to an audacious, and a times nonsensical, final product.
Tag: 2023 movies
Renfield – REVIEW & COCKTAIL
A campy horror comedy that may fumble its many genres and stories, but lends itself to occassional comical gore and humorous banter.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie – REVIEW & COCKTAIL
Narratively generic and paper thin, this film will most likely satisfy younger audiences and diehard fans while leaving everyone else feeling nothing.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – REVIEW & COCKTAIL
A fun, swashbuckling adventure led by charasmatic performances and mostly well-constructed visuals.
John Wick: Chapter 4 – REVIEW & COCKTAIL
A triumph of action cinema, delivering incredibly hard-hitting and impressively choreographed fight sequences while giving a bit of depth to a rather one note character.
Cocaine Bear – REVIEW & COCKTAIL
A goofy throwback to B-movie camp that feels disappointingly restrained for a movie about a large animal high on drugs.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – REVIEW & COCKTAIL
A new low for the MCU, burdened by an uninteresting story, lazy writing, inconsistent visuals, and an unclear direction for the billion dollar franchise.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey – REVIEW & COCKTAIL
A cheap, uninspired slasher banking off of the cheap thrill of seeing your childhood icons kill uninteresting characters.
Infinity Pool – REVIEW & COCKTAIL
A viscerally unnerving film that blends sci-fi with social commentary to create a disturbing, if not familiar, tale about privilege.
Skinamarink – REVIEW
A homemade horror film that captures the frightening dread of childhood, but struggles to remain engaging throughout its slow and abstract story.
The Martini Shot 