Monday, March 23, 2020

Last Big Screen reviews for a while

All the cinemas around me are closed for the foreseeable future, so here are the movies I managed to check out before they shut down. Any reviews in the next few weeks will be of streaming movies only. Stay safe out there, friends.

The Invisible Man - Universal finally get a classic monster reboot right. A scary and very timely movie, with a great lead performance from Elisabeth Moss as the woman terrorized by her invisible and abusive husband. Not as flashy as the last major invisibility movie, Hollow Man, but this one rightly asks us to identify with the victim and not the sociopathic invisible man. Bring on the sequel! (The Invisible Woman?)






The Lodge - a very disturbing horror movie that will appeal to fans of movies like Hereditary. Definitely a slow burn, but worth sticking with.


Onward - a mid-level Pixar movie but the voice cast and visuals are so delightful it's hard not to enjoy. And it will soon be on Disney+!


The Hunt - this much delayed movie puts a satirical spin on The Most Dangerous Game with rich liberal elites hunting "deplorables". There's no one to root for and the satire is as heavy-handed as the violence. But it's still somewhat fun and Betty Gilpin gives it her all playing the closest thing the movie has to a hero.