‘Unknown Origins’: Cool Concept, Poor Execution
Unknown Origins promises a cool spin on superheroes and serial killers, but ultimately delivers cheap comedy.

A possible alien presence in a filmschool campus turns the unknown present in the life of its students.
Unknown Origins promises a cool spin on superheroes and serial killers, but ultimately delivers cheap comedy.
Emily Henry’s adaptation reaches romance movie standards, but not romance reader standards.
The whole family will enjoy these fantasy and science fiction stories about families and individuals connecting, finding true love, and discovering self.
“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.
Tarantino's alternative history of the 1960's uncritically repeats the era's sexist and racist stereotypes.
Telling a story about the French and Indian Wars from the perspective of the British prioritizes the perspective of the colonizers.