OK, that’s it. I want off the art house bus if this is the kind of thing I’m supposed to like. I’ll just step off right here, find a Blockbuster, and rent all the Transformers movies for one night of … Continue reading
A Family Affair is a Netflix romantic comedy with a cast that perplexes me. Not because they are bad, but because they don’t fit… and yet it’s a pleasant, fluffy, and reasonably cute rom-com anyway. It shouldn’t work (and I … Continue reading
About all I knew about this film is that it was the most expensive Indian film ever produced… and, after watching it, that’s still about all I know. Which isn’t to say it doesn’t have a plot that I followed… … Continue reading
Lowlifes is one you’ve seen before… at least to begin with. City folk on vacation take a wrong turn and encounter some backwoods lowlifes. Soon games are being played and the blood flows. Only this one has a surprise that … Continue reading
A Quiet Place: Day One should have just been renamed A Quiet Place: NYC since it wants to be the epic scale version of the Quiet Place Franchise. Yes, it happens on Day One of the invasion (but so too … Continue reading
You’ve seen slow zombies, you’ve seen fast zombies, and you’ve seen ultra-fast zombies… but have you ever seen ultra-slow zombies? Zombies that don’t amble, they don’t shamble… they mainly just sit there, gathering flies. Handling the Undead is a Norwegian … Continue reading
It occurs to me that this recent string of veteran actresses (Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Lilly Tomlin, Kathy Bates, etc.) in these screw-around while nothing happens comedies is just the female side of the geezer teaser phenomenon where older actors … Continue reading
Ghostlight crept up on me as I was watching and slapped me in the face with how good it was. It was never bad… but it kind of hid its point and its direction well so once I saw where … Continue reading
If Rachel Sennott wasn’t already my secret Canadian girlfriend (who clearly lives in Niagara) after Shiva Baby and Bottoms, she is now. I loved Shiva Baby (and Bodies, Bodies, Bodies) and thought she was funny in Bottoms, but I don’t … Continue reading
Trigger Warning reminds of the halcyon days of better Netflix action flicks like The Grey Man and Red Notice. Call it The Beige Project… just a blah bag of beige boredom bothering my beleaguered eyes. Jessica Alba came out of … Continue reading