House of Gucci
House of Gucci is a movie I went to reluctantly… and, indeed, bailed on going to for three or four days until boredom drove me to the theater (it happens). I don’t have a fashion sense and, indeed, it may … Continue reading
House of Gucci is a movie I went to reluctantly… and, indeed, bailed on going to for three or four days until boredom drove me to the theater (it happens). I don’t have a fashion sense and, indeed, it may … Continue reading
God’s Not Dead 4… they are still making them and I’m still watching them. I am not the target market for these films but I always try to give them a chance. Are they full of persecution complexes and strawmen … Continue reading
I imagine Belfast might work better for folks who lived in Ireland and/or England and/or Northern Ireland during The Troubles than some random American who remembers the news in the 80s and 90s but didn’t really follow it. Or, you … Continue reading
Cryptic, obscure, impenetrable… I’m not even sure I can talk about this movie in context of what it is, what it’s about, or even what happens. It’s deliberately muddled, murky, and muffled… not something that I think is intended to … Continue reading
Not being a musical theater guy, I didn’t realize this flick was based on a real play much less a real life. It felt like someone’s personal journey fictionalized to the screen though… and it made sense why Lin-Manuel Miranda … Continue reading
Violet didn’t introduce itself well to me. I see what it was going for but mainly I just felt it starred an inert character. And that’s the name of the game… it’s about a person with crippling self-doubt and I … Continue reading
Spin is not only a Disney+ movie, the opening credits say it’s a Disney Channel movie. That should be a red flag (says the guy who did not grow up on the Disney Channel). But I grit my teeth, pushed … Continue reading
Passing has such a soft, curious touch that I really dig it even though I was left a little cold at the end. Passing is set in the 1920s and stars Tessa Thompson as a light-skinned black woman who can, … Continue reading
Despite my deep-seated disinterest in the British royal family, I went to see Spencer anyway. I was expecting a traditional biopic (which I might have welcomed if done right) but this wasn’t that at all. It’s just about a few … Continue reading
It took some time for this flick to grow on me. I thought it was a decent post-apocalypse flick that slowly lost me a bit when it became a road-trip movie. But through the sheer power of acting, writing, and … Continue reading