Yakuza Princess is about… umm… there’s this guy with amnesia in a hospital with a katana… and a girl who loved her grandfather and… there’s yakuza. And… umm… they meet about forty-five minutes into the movie where we start to … Continue reading
Michael Cane and Aubrey Plaza are two actors I like but never thought about starring in the same film. And when I saw them pop up in this, I thought it was a perfect match. It just made sense. Though … Continue reading
Blue Bayou is an emotionally powerful film with a heart of gold that is really great for 2/3rds of its runtime. There’s very little wrong with this movie… until a muddled, overly-complicated final act. The film is about a Korean … Continue reading
Bad Candy is a Halloween-themed horror anthology and a whole load of nonsense, garbage, and ineptitude. And for my next trick, I’ll think of more nasty things to say about it. The film uses a frame story of a couple … Continue reading
Cry Macho stars Clint Eastwood as an aged cowboy and former rodeo star who is asked by a friend to go to Mexico and retrieve his estranged son. Eastwood does this out of a sense of obligation but eventually out … Continue reading
Prisoners of the Ghostland is a weird Samurai/Western action film starring Nicholas Cage. This should be a fun combination but I think the film is simply trying too hard. It has a manufactured artificial level of weirdness instead of being … Continue reading
I was constantly up and down and down and up on this movie… I couldn’t decide if I low-key enjoyed it or if I was actively bored. Seemed to shift every ten minutes. So it’s a real mixed bag but … Continue reading
The voyeur thriller is a weird sub-genre that Hollywood sure likes to make every few years. Whether it’s looking our one of them there rear windows, across a valley in LA with a telescope, at the next door neighbors in … Continue reading
You don’t fool me, movie. Whether you want to be called Firedrake: The Silver Dragon (as I saw it on Netflix) or Dragon Rider, you’re still a pretty lame movie. And why the title change anyway? I guess Dragon Rider … Continue reading
Level 16 is a movie about a mysterious school/hospital/prison where girls grow up isolated from the world and its poison air. They are taught not to question authority and to obey every order issued. They believe, when they get old … Continue reading