Stars Fell on Alabama, by Albert W. Vogt III
After watching all seven of the current Resident Evil films (as of this writing), I needed some lighter fare. Because it is so much of a 180 from those movies, I was in the mood for a romantic comedy, the cheesier the better. One can call it a cinematic spiritual cleansing, especially since some of…
Verity, by Albert W. Vogt III
Verity means, according to Dictionary.com, “the quality or state of true, real, or accurate.” After watching the film of the same title, you might have to change that definition, but we will get into that in a moment. What I found myself thinking about as a Catholic was the title’s Latin root. That would be…
Thelma & Louise, by Albert W. Vogt III
When it comes to films about female empowerment, one of the first that often comes to mind is Thelma & Louise (1991). To a certain extent, I get it. The title characters had lived a life of being taken advantage of by men and decided to fight back against that treatment. Toxic masculinity has been…
Hulk, by Albert W. Vogt III
It is hard to think of superhero movies before the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), but they do exist. It is sort of like asking a Christian to imagine a world before the Protestant Reformation, or, if you want to get even more technical, the Great Schism of 1054 that divided the Eastern and Western Churches.…
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, by Albert W. Vogt III
Remember everything I said about Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) about it being a lie if you thought it was the last entry in the franchise? Well, if Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) is any indication, then that turned out to be true and not true. When it comes to such conundrums,…
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, by Albert W. Vogt III
With a title like Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016), it would not be unreasonable to expect it to be, in fact, the final chapter. With this franchise, such notions are all but meaningless. The apocalypse seems to happen after every one of these films, only to have something else be the real end in…
Resident Evil: Retribution, by Albert W. Vogt III
There is a moment in Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) when franchise stalwart Alice (Milla Jovovich) is confronted by the artificial intelligence (AI) known as the Red Queen (voiced by Ava Merson-O’Brian). The computer program controlling yet another of the evil Umbrella corporation’s underground facilities (though this one is actually underwater) tells Alice that she and…
