The Door into Summer is a Japanese film that’s available on Netflix. It’s based on a Robert Heinlein novel of the same name, written in 1956 about a scientist in 1970 who gets cryogenically frozen and wakes up in 2000 … Continue reading
I did NOT laugh fairly often at this scathing, brutal faux-documentary about the 2021 that we all know and hate. Hosted by an interesting list of actors playing fake talking heads, it takes a brutal, direct, and perhaps one-sided assault … Continue reading
Well, here’s a slice of unwanted life. A movie starring a washed-up bullshitting loser ex-porn star who goes back to Texas and has trouble finding a 9 to 5 because, you know, 17 years as a porn star “over” qualifies … Continue reading
Wow… almost missed this later-career 2021 Bruce Willis “starring” movie… looks like I got a watch in before whatever fresh hell 2022 brings us. Which, for the record, looks like it will contain TWELVE more Bruce Willis takes a paycheck … Continue reading
Don’t Look Up isn’t a particularly good comedy and it isn’t a particularly well-focused social satire, but it is a decent disaster movie. Unfortunately, it wants to be all three of these things but a broken script gets in the … Continue reading
Hmmm. This doesn’t sound much like an Aaron Sorkin script. Just as Nicole Kidman doesn’t remind me of Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem doesn’t remind me of Desi Arnaz (or JK Simmons the person he’s playing). The movie didn’t make … Continue reading
The Matrix Resurrections starts strong, has good story continuation from the end of the last film, but suffers from a saggy final act. For awhile, I was thinking the film was going to be quite strong until it fell into … Continue reading
The King’s Man is a fascinating film. It shouldn’t work. It starts kind of mediocre and then just ascends and ascends with total bug-nuttery until I had to sit back and admit I was enjoying myself. This mess somehow just… … Continue reading
I have a love/hate relationship with Del Toro movies. I wind up not liking them nearly as much as everyone else. A few I love, more I don’t. So I didn’t go into Nightmare Alley with high expectations. I wasn’t … Continue reading
In the recent pantheon of modern Bruce Willis movies, I’d say he’s in this one a bit more than most. That’s something. He cares just about as much as usual though… which is to say, not at all. As you … Continue reading