1. Send Help
I'm always down for some Rachel McAdams, and I still regard director Sam Raimi's output with guarded optimism. Send Help is... good, but of course not Spider Man 2 good or, going still further back, Evil Dead 2 good. It reminded me of many other movies, mostly Triangle of Sadness, but also Cast Away and Misery. Even so it's its own entity, and entertainingly gross to boot.
Every ticket purchased for this film puts Melania further in the hole, and I'd recommend it for that reason alone.
2. Goat
A goat dreams of playing professional "roarball" despite his diminutive size. I went into this one with zero expectations and walked out pleasantly surprised. It's predictable but it's also eccentric enough to be interesting.
3. Rental Family
This one had a 2025 release date in the States, but in Taiwan it arrived this month.
Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser stars as an actor living in Japan who finds work impersonating other people's friends and relatives. The last of Fraser's movies I saw was the decidedly depressing The Whale, and I was happy to see him in something a lot more lighthearted. Rental Family is a very solid movie, and although it wasn't a big hit at the box office (on either side of the Pacific) I could see it becoming a cult classic in the future.
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4. Crime 101
Bruce Banner attempts to catch Thor before he steals a bunch of diamonds and/or cash with Storm's help. Oh, and The Riddler's in their somewhere.
Sorry, wrong cinematic universe.
I think that Chris Hemsworth has, by this point at least, proved that he's more than Thor several times over, and the rest of the cast were well established in Hollywood long before we fretted over the next Avengers or whatever Sony might or might not be doing with the Spider-Man films.
Crime 101 isn't bad. I think it could have been edited down to a leaner two hours, but it's not bad. In terms of recent movies I've seen recently Rental Family is way better, but as crime thrillers go Crime 101 is a tightly constructed tale of thieves, cops and rich guys with too much money on their hands. It's not Heat or anything, but Barry Keoghan goes a long way toward elevating whatever movie he deigns to appear in.
Woah: Nick Nolte is now 85 years old.
Yet Another Comic Book Connection: Pedro Pascal was originally slated to star opposite Hemsworth, but dropped out to star in Fantastic Four: First Steps instead.
5. War Machine
A squad of trainee Army Rangers faces an alien killing machine. It'll remind you of Edge of Tomorrow, it'll remind you of Predator, but star Alan Ritchson is a good actor and the ending, although predictable, is very satisfying.
6. Project Hail Mary
Ryan Gosling journeys 11 or more light years away to save our sun.
I didn't like this one as much as I thought I would. Ryan Gosling give it his all, and the overall story takes some unconventional twists and turns, but it wore on me.
Its geeky scientism will remind you a little of The Martian, but that fact alone is only a slight mark against it. It's an unquestionably good movie, even though it could have been streamlined a bit.
7. The Super Mario Galaxy Mario
Not nearly as good as the first one but it'll entertain most five year olds. If you've played Odyssey as much as I have you might enjoy some of the settings, but otherwise there's not much here for adults.
8. Lee Cronin's The Mummy
I was disappointed. The trailer looked good, and I was a huge fan of Evil Dead Rise, but there are too many aspects of the plot that don't add up. There are some arresting visuals (though nothing on par with Evil Dead Rise), but this film's characters, especially the child's mother, behave in very inexplicable ways.
And what the hell was the deal with the walls in that house? Whose house has walls like that? And why was everyone so weirdly calm after they witness someone get devoured by coyotes? And why assume that danger has passed afterward? Why? Why? Why?
See Evil Dead Rise if you missed it in theaters. That movie is so metal it's ridiculous. For that matter Cronin's first film, The Hole in the Ground, is also good. The Mummy? If you haven't seen it already I'd give it a miss. Evil Dead Burn will be out this summer anyway.
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