First Love is a basic, no-frills, earnest, old-fashioned romance. Not a rom-com, not a melodramatic potboiler, not an R rated farce, not overly saccharin. It’s, unfortunately, also a little bit too drama-free and struggles to justify it’s relatively average runtime. … Continue reading
I rolled the bones on another blind watch and I may as well not have since I won’t remember this is a week. The Friendship Game is a muddled mess of teen melodrama vaguely connected to an evil(?) spinning orb … Continue reading
Code Name Banshee is one hell of a schizophrenic movie. It starts with a laughably bad action scene and I pretty much wrote it off as Z grade cinema. And then Antonio Banderas shows up and suddenly the non-action drama … Continue reading
RIPD 2 is what you get when you complain about Ryan Reynolds doing the same old schtick in all his movies and then they release an unexpected and unwanted sequel to one of his most forgettable movies that really needed … Continue reading
My Father’s Dragon is a bit of an unconventional animated fantasy. A little unfocused and maybe underwritten too… but super well-meaning and earnest. I’m just not 100% sure what it all means which might be a flaw in the script … Continue reading
Three cheer for the interobang!?! Oh wait what? Yeah, Is That Black Enough for You?!? is a pretty good documentary about the rise of black film (blaxploitation, even) from 1968-1978… and black actors, directors, and writers throughout cinema history in … Continue reading
Capturing the Killer Nurse is the documentary version of the true life story of a nurse who killed his patience for almost twenty years. Just a week or two earlier, the Good Nurse starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne impressed … Continue reading
The first half of this somewhat generic holiday romantic comedy is nigh on insufferable. Complete with pratfalls and over-the-top comedy acting, I was gritting my teeth and wallowing in my anti-Christmas rage. But once it settles into its formulaic and … Continue reading
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a very busy film without, thankfully, being a very messy film. They manage to stuff the movie to the (ahem) gills with character and plot without the whole merry-go-round flinging everyone off in a fit … Continue reading
Next Exit is a genre-bender… a romance, a romantic comedy, a comedy sci-fi road trip that never really coalesces into something great. But I think they put in the effort to focus on the emotional life of two characters and … Continue reading