Feb
22
Drive-Away Dolls
Drive-Away Dolls is a Coen Brother – but not a Coen Brothers – film and maybe that’s why it’s not at the top of their game. But it is good… if a bit much and a bit all over the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2024
Feb
21
Land of Bad
Little known fact: the Land of Bad is where the Bye Bye Man lives <insert har-de-har-har here>. Also, a single serving box of Frosted Flakes is 120 calories while a Froot Loops box is only 100. That along with a … Continue reading
Feb
21
Monolith
Monolith is a slow-burn minimalist cryptic sci-fi thriller/horror amalgam that doesn’t go anywhere… slowly. It’s about a woman creating her own creepypaste podcast through interviews and dialog with off-screen characters. In other words, it might as well have been a … Continue reading
Feb
20
Bob Marley: One Love
Bob Marley: One Love is a pretty basic biopic of Bob Marley… but it only really covers three years of his life with a smattering of flashbacks to his youth. It opens with him in Jamaica during a time of … Continue reading
Feb
18
Miller’s Girl
Well, here’s another one I think I’m obligated to hate but didn’t. Miller’s Girl is a southern gothic starring a mismatched pair of actors who don’t get to slink as much as they do. I hope they had a good … Continue reading
Feb
18
ABCs of Book Banning, The
This documentary is so slight its over before it even begins. It’s such a cursory examination of the book burn… I mean banning – (aka social mockery) that I might as well have just looked up videos of school board … Continue reading
Feb
18
No Way Up
An airplane disaster survival movie with sharks? Mash-up those genres and give me something scrappy and fun, please. The odds were not in its favor – and certainly based on user ratings expectations were low – but I was pleasantly … Continue reading
Feb
17
This Is Me… Now
Not entirely sure why I hit play on this Amazon Prime video… experiment? Jennifer Lopez marketing push? Musical? Extended Music Video? Vanity project? I kinda sorta like J. Lo and I heard it was bonkers… and only an hour long… … Continue reading
Feb
17
Einstein and the Bomb
I’m not sure what value this short documentary brings. It’s hand-wavingly about the life of Einstein, but mainly only between the time he left Germany and the resolution of WW2. But, really, it’s more about that time period than it … Continue reading
Feb
16
Five Blind Dates
Objectively, this Prime Video streaming rom-com probably isn’t that bad, but subjectively, it’s tedious, tiresome, uncharismatic, predictable, and generic. There’s almost no reason for it to exist and I’m unfairly annoyed I wasted my time on it. The flick is … Continue reading