Scott's Movie Reviews – Exploring a Century of Cinema

A Minecraft Movie (2025)

[3] Since it's one of the most financially successful films of modern times, I decided to satisfy my morbid curiosity about A Minecraft Movie -- a movie I would otherwise never have seen, since it clearly wasn't made for me.…

June 21, 2025

Infinity Pool (2023)

[6] Writer/director Brandon Cronenberg (Antiviral, Possessor) casts Alexander Skarsgård (The Northman) as a novelist seeking inspiration on the fictional island of Li Tolqa, where he accidentally commits vehicular manslaughter and is sentenced to death for it. But there's an alternative…

June 21, 2025

Hanging by a Thread (1979)

[4] In this three-hour, fifteen-minute TV movie from disaster producer Irwin Allen, a group of friends reveal secrets and make confessions while hanging from a disabled cable-car high above a canyon during a lightning storm. High winds stimy several attempts…

June 20, 2025

Dumbo (1941)

[9] After Walt Disney released the world's first animated feature film, the wildly successful Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the studio struggled with a couple of ambitious financial failures. Pinocchio and Fantasia were creatively and technologically advanced films, but…

June 19, 2025

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)

[5] Part two of George Lucas' Star Wars prequel trilogy is cluttered and over-produced like the previous installment, but it's a modest improvement over part one, thanks in large part to an action-packed final act. Everything before that final act…

June 18, 2025