Priscilla
Priscilla, as a movie about the woman and not The King, not only has a noticeable dearth of Elvis songs but also assumes you know an awful lot about the guy coming in. Perhaps too much…. I can imagine someone … Continue reading
Priscilla, as a movie about the woman and not The King, not only has a noticeable dearth of Elvis songs but also assumes you know an awful lot about the guy coming in. Perhaps too much…. I can imagine someone … Continue reading
Pain Hustlers stars Emily Blunt and Chris Evans as a pair of prescription drug pain med peddlers. It shows how maybe some good intentions almost got in the way of all that money. Only in America, amiright? I watched this … Continue reading
The Persian Version is a multigenerational immigrant story that bites off a huge chunk of content that maybe it doesn’t have time to swallow. It primarily (usually) follows the Iranian-American daughter of immigrant parents and how she relates to her … Continue reading
The Marsh King’s Daughter partially takes place in the marshlands of Northern Michigan. When they mentioned this, I frowned… I thought it was set in Louisiana or somewhere more typical of a swampy area in the US. I grew up … Continue reading
I saw the original Caine Mutiny starring Humphry Bogart so long ago I can’t remember the details so watching this remake was a pleasure. I love this kind of stage-play passion… a fiery, dramatic actors’ movie. The film is about … Continue reading
The Burial stars Tommy Lee Jones as the owner of a small chain of funeral homes. When he tries to sell some of them to a behemoth funeral corporation, they try to screw him and he sues. He hires showy … Continue reading
Despite its length and despite my mind coming up with alternative takes or judicious edits to the existing content, I was never bored by Martin Scorsese’s inexplicably long Killers of the Flower Moon. But don’t get me wrong, this is … Continue reading
After one too many horrorshows this spooky season, I put on this Netflix movie to give myself some downtime. And it turned out to be every bit a horrorshow as anything on Shudder… only I can’t tell who the real … Continue reading
When I posted my rewatch review of Psycho, I banged on about Roger Ebert’s old adage that movies are machines for empathy. Never has that been more true than in The Royal Hotel… a movie that feels aimless and had … Continue reading
Dumb Money is an aspirational and maybe delusional bit of rabble rousing that covers the Gamestop stock pump that (temporarily) freaked out the Masters of the Universe in the stock market a couple years ago. It’s a fictional account with … Continue reading