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Wonder Woman Friday June 2, 2017
Wonder Woman was pretty much a perfect movie. I loved it, Sandra loved it, and we’re both extremely happy that it is a thing that exists in this timeline. Does it redeem the clumsy, colorless DC movie franchise? Well, if my ticket purchases for those other movies (the ones with… Read more
Atomic Blonde Friday August 25, 2017
This twisty, retro thriller is pretty amazing on a number of counts, but I’ll lead with this: The action is tight, with some through-composed fight scenes whose choreography runs across multiple blows and throws, and therefore requires the stars to be doing a lot of the fighting themselves. It feels… Read more
Mary Poppins Returns Friday December 21, 2018
As a kid I watched the original Mary Poppins a great many times. The film is indelibly etched in my brain. Did adult me have doubts that Mary Poppins Returns could be worth my time? Of course. But Sandra and I both plunked down our ticket moneys and saw the movie on… Read more
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Saturday December 23, 2017
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was every bit as much fun as I hoped it would be. In part this is because I saw it with my sixteen-year-old daughter, but mostly it’s because the folks on-screen were simply delightful. Also, yay video game physics! It clears my Threshold of Awesome,… Read more
Annihilation Sunday February 25, 2018
Annihilation did some magnificent things, but ultimately it didn’t tell a story that I enjoyed very much. I can’t complain at all about the acting, the effects, the camera work, or the sound design, because everything was spot on, and much of it was outstanding. What was missing, however, was a surprising-yet-inevitable… Read more
November 28, 2000 Tuesday November 28, 2000
I redesigned the site a bit, and got rid of the ugly brown box. I used to think it looked nice and schlocky, but today I decided it just looked like crap, so I flushed it. During my redesign I realized that there is only one Schlock review in my… Read more
Ant Man and The Wasp Sunday July 8, 2018
Ant Man and The Wasp is set just prior to the events of Avengers: Infinity War¹, which allows it to revel in the same comedy/adventure realm as Ant Man and Thor: Ragnarok. It excelled at said revelry. My own favorite moment, which I shall not spoil, was when Luis (Michael… Read more
About Saturday January 14, 2006
Howard Tayler is the award-winning cartoonist responsible for Schlock Mercenary and the inventor of the chupaqueso. He's married, and lives in Orem, UT with his wife Sandra (who posts here from time to time) and his four children (who do not.) This site is where you'll find Howard's movie and… Read more
SOUL Sunday December 27, 2020
I loved Soul. LOVED. IT. The mythos was fun, the music was amazing, and the story had more heart in it—more truth in it—than anything in recent memory. As an added bonus, if you like jazz, this movie has some amazing things to offer. It’s easily worth a Disney+ subscription.… Read more
Geostorm Tuesday October 24, 2017
Geostorm is to climate science what Armageddon was to rocket science. It’s also to rocket science what Armageddon was to rocket science, but if I keep going I’ll have described an entire course catalog. The message of the film, “let’s take care of our planet responsibly,” is delivered a little heavy-handedly, and… Read more
Hello, It’s Been A While, Is This Thing On? Monday April 8, 2019
It’s been a while since I blogged about anything. For those of you awaiting movie reviews, I apologize. I’ve been busy with a great many things, and kind of forgot how to leave the house. Building this kind of thing probably doesn’t help in that regard. The work surface and… Read more
Hail, Caesar Wednesday February 17, 2016
So far this year I’ve seen three movies, and all of them have been a lot of fun. Hail, Caesar currently sits at the bottom of my list, but it’s well above the Threshold of Disappointment. Hail, Caesar is a movie for movie people. It’s full of SAG in-jokes and… Read more
Star Trek Beyond Wednesday July 27, 2016
If you love Star Trek, I’m reasonably confident you’ll love Star Trek Beyond. For reasons whose explanations would require spoilers¹, I did not quite love the movie, but I certainly liked it a lot. Sandra loved it unconditionally. It’s certainly worth the price of the movie ticket and the popcorn,… Read more
Hellboy Monday April 15, 2019
The new Hellboy film is fun, and gooey, and gross, and David Harbour does just fine taking up the horns and crown from Ron Perlman. Yes, Perlman’s chin (and entire demeanor) felt almost typecast for 2004’s Hellboy, but Harbour stepped up and delivered the goods. The film is R-rated for graphic violence. The… Read more
X-Men: Apocalypse Saturday May 28, 2016
As much as I enjoyed this movie, I am very much ready for a superhero movie in which the story is not about how we react to the existence of superheroes. Apotheosis makes for a good story, and that’s why we have gotten so very many films that deal with… Read more
Scott Pilgrim vs. The Expendables vs. Dayquil Friday August 13, 2010
You deserve a better movie reviewer than me. On days when I'm so dopey from cold medicine that I don't trust myself to write Schlock Mercenary scripts I probably shouldn't trust myself to give advice to movie-goers. A better reviewer would take the day off. Me? I'm not afraid to… Read more
The Jungle Book Tuesday April 19, 2016
There’s no way to film the Mowgli stories from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book absent the influence of the 1967 Disney classic, which casts a long shadow. Several such films have been made, and most of them didn’t work very well at all. 2016’s The Jungle Book does work, however, and it does… Read more
Deadpool: Pretty Good For February Tuesday February 16, 2016
I enjoyed Deadpool, but I don’t have any desire to see it again. I have a deep appreciation for a well-crafted joke, and Deadpool was full of those, but of necessity the jokes were contextualized with stuff I don’t love sitting through. It’s hard to figure out which side of… Read more
Battle: Los Angeles Friday March 11, 2011
Roger Ebert hated this movie. After his declaration that video games cannot be art, however, I determined that his opinion might be suspect with regards to anything less than two centuries old. In that mind-set I ventured forth, hopeful that this movie might show me a good time. It did.… Read more
Back from WorldCon Tuesday August 29, 2006
We still haven't enabled the dynamic blog content on the Schlock Mercenary home page, because we found the memory leaks and they appear to be permanent holes in the FreeBSD implementations of php and MySQL. Plugging said holes means switching to another operating system, and that has to wait another… Read more