Petite Maman is an understated, quiet, introspective French film that really wants me to rate it four stars. And there’s a lot of argument why I should… but I came away thinking it was pleasant but not amazing. Well acted, … Continue reading
Escape the Field is a mash-up film… an amalgamation of ideas that circulate around a low budget, low effort location. It’s Cube if the cube was a corn field. It’s Escape Room if the room was a corn field. It’s … Continue reading
Along for the Ride is a pleasant, reasonably mature and thoughtful teen romance. It’s not an amazing flick but it’s nice that a Netflix original adapted from a YA novel isn’t silly, cringe, or dumb. Or, more to the point, … Continue reading
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a fun, trippy flick that throws it all at the screen, confident that this is gonna work. And I think it does work… though they don’t have to sell me on the … Continue reading
You Are Not My Mother wants to burn slow and make the skin crawl. It does one of those two things… it’s a slow burn. But it didn’t make my skin crawl even though it desperately tried to with its … Continue reading
The latest Liam Neeson joint is just mind-numbingly, bone-crushingly, thumb-screwingly boring. Just a long slog of tedium… in a movie that think its has something to say and wants to be this serious-minded criminal investigation flick. And a hit-man with … Continue reading
The premise of this movie – in a CIA black site, a terrorist breaks free and begins to hunt the operatives – got me interested. It sounded maybe like a military slasher film, a reverse Die Hard, or if John … Continue reading
The previous 360 Days ended on a cliffhanger that this movie just hand-waves away. Whatever drama they were setting up? Nah. Now we have these two lovers getting married and we’re supposed to forget, I guess, all the kidnapping and … Continue reading
I skipped this one back in 2020, but with its sequel racing up the ratings charts (in reverse), I figured it was time to see if this movie actually earns all those half star reviews. It does. It very much … Continue reading
Catwoman: Hunted is the latest DC animated superhero flicks that takes a slight left by having an anime (or anime-inspired) style. That doesn’t mean it’s not fairly cheap animation, but at least its got its own style (though I think … Continue reading