Night Patrol is a Frankenstein of Missed Opportunities

Night Patrol is a Frankenstein of Missed Opportunities

Night Patrol ★ ½ Night Patrol is a film with a promising premise that starts off captivating and quickly evolves into a narrative filled with missed opportunities, trading horror for confusion. It’s a gangland story where the cops are the bad guys, set around a Los...
Greenland 2: Migration Trades Urgency for Nonsense

Greenland 2: Migration Trades Urgency for Nonsense

Greenland 2: Migration ★ ½ Greenland 2: Migration feels like a movie thrown together to fill the January off-season theatrical slot. It starts off slow, and despite some nonsensical action scenes, manages to get more boring as it goes. In the previous film, the stakes...
Primate Never Earns Its Own Terror

Primate Never Earns Its Own Terror

Primate ★ ★ Primate is a horror film about a chimpanzee named Ben who gets bitten by a rabid mongoose in his enclosure within the Lambert family property in Hawaii. The bite leaves Ben infected with rabies, which is odd, given that Hawaii is rabies-free. The film has...
Song Sung Blue Plays It Safe—but Plays It Well

Song Sung Blue Plays It Safe—but Plays It Well

Song Sung Blue ★ ★ ★ Song Sung Blue is based on real-life couple Mike and Claire Sardina, who became a sensation in Milwaukee as Neil Diamond interpreters. No, not impersonators—interpreters. It’s an important distinction in this film, because Mike reveres Diamond so...
Marty Supreme Finds Match Point at the Table’s Edge

Marty Supreme Finds Match Point at the Table’s Edge

Marty Supreme ★ ★ ★ ★ Marty Supreme is based on the true story of Marty Reisman, an American table tennis hustler who became a folk legend of sorts. Like any good pool shark, he would throw matches and start winning as the stakes got higher. He didn’t just win, he...