There is never going to be a great sequel to The Matrix. The Wachowskis tried twice already and failed twice. The original film is perfect, complete, and impossible to follow up in a reasonably cathartic or emotionally resonant way. More to the point, the Wachowskis never wanted to make a sequel to The Matrix. TheContinue reading “HUMMEL Review: The Matrix Resurrections”
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HUMMEL Review: Karen (2021)
I have a lot of friends, on the right, who genuinely despise Jordan Peele’s Get Out. I get the emotional gut reaction to the movie. It’s the most politically charged blockbuster of our generation. I just think it’s worth remembering that Peele is a genuinely talented director. He’s funny, and humanistic and seems to actuallyContinue reading “HUMMEL Review: Karen (2021)”
HUMMEL Review: Without Remorse (2021)
I’ve been saying for years now that I’ve desperately wanted Hollywood to start adapting the Tom Clancy novels into proper films again. I’m hindsight, maybe I didn’t realize what I was asking for. When Tom Clancy wrote books like Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Cardinal of the Kremlin and Without Remorse, he was writingContinue reading “HUMMEL Review: Without Remorse (2021)”
HUMMEL Review: Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
Neon Genesis Evangelion is… a lot to deal with. It doesn’t help that my youthful obsession of anime has grown weak but even as a teenager this series was always ALOT to process. That’s remained true up through the Rebuild of Evangelion series that’s premiered in four installments: Evangelion 1.0 (2007), Evangelion 2.0 (2009), EvangelionContinue reading “HUMMEL Review: Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time”
HUMMEL Review: No Sudden Move (2021)
I’m starting to find Steven Soderbergh to be a frustrating director. I don’t mean that he’s bad. If anything, he’s one of our most interesting living personalities currently working within the studio system. I just mean that I’m finding his output more tedious than usual. For every Oceans Eleven, Contagion or Logan Lucky, he seemsContinue reading “HUMMEL Review: No Sudden Move (2021)”
HUMMEL Review: Georgetown (2019)
Sometimes a film benefits from being based on real events and telling a shocking real life story exactly as it happens. Often the truth is stranger than fiction. That only works though if there’s some under-ridding moral or truth that’s emphasized by the insanity of the story. Whether it’s something like Pain and Gain orContinue reading “HUMMEL Review: Georgetown (2019)”
HUMMEL Review: Another Round (2020)
Here’s a really great premise for a dark comedy: four bored High school teachers decide to repeat a goofy sounding science experiment that says that the average human BAC level 0.05% too low to function in daily life. To fix this, they start day drinking during school to maintain a consistent buzz during the day.Continue reading “HUMMEL Review: Another Round (2020)”
HUMMEL Review: Snake Eyes – GI Joe Origins
I don’t care about the GI Joe brand. I wasn’t an ‘80s kid and therefore I have no nostalgia for it as an entertainment franchise. I’d previously tried watching the first of the two big blockbuster GI Joe films and I didn’t get halfway through it without getting immensely bored. My only interest in thisContinue reading “HUMMEL Review: Snake Eyes – GI Joe Origins”
HUMMEL Review: Pig (2021)
I was not expecting a Nic Cage movie to be among this year’s best movies but nowadays I don’t expect a lot of things from film. Post 2019, it’s very hard to depend on Hollywood to deliver much very promptly. Regardless, it was inevitable that we’d get another one of Nic Cage’s WEIRD movies. He’sContinue reading “HUMMEL Review: Pig (2021)”
HUMMEL Review: Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
If classic cinema teaches us anything it’s that the lives of enigmatic people can’t easily be summed up simply or easily. This is specifically true in the case of people who die enigmatic deaths. Charles Foster Kane has his rosebud but the truth and meaning of that secret died with him. I suspect the sameContinue reading “HUMMEL Review: Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain”
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