Smile is a mash-up of at least a half dozen other horror movies you’ve already seen. And it sadly seems to think it invented the genre all by itself. What else can explain the ridiculous almost two hour runtime when … Continue reading
Having just watched the original Austrian Goodnight Mommy, I went into the American remake hoping it was better than the ratings suggest. And what I got was a defanged, sanitized, and far more mainstream version of the same plot… but … Continue reading
If the purpose of a biopic is to tell an understandable, possibly relatable, version of a famous person’s life so you come away understanding that person better, then Blonde is an abject failure. But if you come to see a … Continue reading
Control is a tedious, repetitive, unoriginal slog of a single location film that, when it’s not reminding you of better restrained films, reminds me how tired I am Covid-influenced films. It’s not like Covid invented the the single location low-budget … Continue reading
What if you were in a home invasion movie and didn’t realize it? That seems to be the awkward and uncomfortable premise of Who Invited Them… a movie that trades on our civility to drag a simple story out until … Continue reading
To say Rob Zombie’s The Munsters is campy, garish, overlit, corny, and cheap would make the shockmeister blush and say thanks. That’s exactly what he was going for… and it makes this movie a hell of a thing to judge. … Continue reading
Next up on Existential Crisis Theater: Netflix’s new documentary A Trip to Infinity. I suck at math but I love the elegance of math… the simplicity and the complexity. I love the theories and concepts, even if my brain breaks … Continue reading
See How They Run is a modern whodunit set in a world where people are familiar with whodunits. It’s a whodunit film about a murder that occurs at a whodunit play that is being adapted as a whodunit film. It’s … Continue reading
The Summoned is about a young couple, he a regular auto mechanic, she an up-and-coming star, who are invited to an exclusive therapy clinic in the middle of nowhere. Other rich and famous folk show up and soon the mechanic … Continue reading
On the upcoming season of So You Think You Can Action Star, watch luminaries such as Joey King, Bob Odenkirk, and our latest contender Allison Janney trade in their usual Hollywood stardom for a life of kicking butt and taking … Continue reading