Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds is a new Werner Herzog documentary airing on Apple TV+. It is his latest lyrical scientific film, this time about meteorite impacts across the globe and throughout time. In his usual combination of scientific fascination, … Continue reading
I Used To Go Here is a kind of sweet and cynical mix of a mature comedy a bit of a goof college comedy. Plus a healthy dash of Charlize Thereon’s (much more angry and cynical) movie Young Adult. It’s … Continue reading
Superintelligence is trying to be too many things it just continuously fails be. It’s a bog standard AI Becomes Intelligent film, it’s a romantic comedy without a lot of convincing romance, and it tries – and I do mean tries … Continue reading
Hillbilly Elegy, based on a person’s actual memoir, is trying to say something profound about desperate, poor white folk in Kentucky and Southern Ohio… but it never really figures out what. There’s reference and asides about boarded up main streets … Continue reading
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two is the kind of sequel that brings with it very low expectations, especially when the plot reveals itself. The original film – about a rock ‘n roll Santa played by Kurt Russel – was a … Continue reading
Fatman is a new Christmas-themed action movie that’s available for rent on streaming. It tells the gritty tale of how a twelve year old rich kid, disappointed by the piece of coal he receives for Christmas, puts a hit out … Continue reading
The Rental is in a long-existing but suddenly bourgeoning sub-genre of thriller/suspense/horror that basically suggests staycations are for the best. The kind of movie that says, “hey, you know that cute B&B / house on the beach / rental in … Continue reading
Operation Christmas drop is about a congressional aide who flies to Guam to see about shutting down an air base and how the airmen and women try to sell her on keeping it open. It also feels exactly like a … Continue reading
Unknown Origins is an amusing collision of the serial killer movie Seven and <pick your comic book origin story here>. It’s about a straight-laced detective in Madrid, Spain who is on the trail of a serial killer who uses superhero … Continue reading
I wasn’t expecting anything when I rented Words on Bathroom Walls… all I knew about it was that it was an early post-closing theatrical release and that it starred Charlie Plummer who was just in the last movie I saw … Continue reading