On the one hand, Afraid is just another smart home automation AI paranoia film that borrows a little too much from Her and Megan. On the other hand, I kind of liked how it ended even if getting there was … Continue reading
Netflix presents Lee Daniel’s Deliverance… or The Deliverance if you are doing the bare minimum to not remind people of squealing like a pig. I get it, I get it… a lot of people don’t know Deliverance and it’s not … Continue reading
Slingshot is a frustrating and frustrated science fiction film that has one tiny bit of scientific knowledge and hand-waves away the rest. But I was ok with that since it’s a low budget film that opts to go psychological over … Continue reading
There’s absolutely no reason for me to find this meditative Japanese film so compelling… and yet I do. It disobeys most rules of drama and simply chooses to let nothing happen of dramatic merit for almost the entire runtime. And … Continue reading
Greedy People is a sporadic and uneven crime/thriller/comedy that wants you to think about a Coen Brothers film while you watch it. Not as good as most of their oeuvre, but certainly playing in the same crime comedy ballpark. The … Continue reading
Blink Twice is a bit of a problem movie. It has a good setup but it slogs down in the middle before delivering a pretty great finale. It’s such a good ending that it blew past my three stars and … Continue reading
I added Just. One. Mile. to my watchlist after podcaster Jeff Cannata gushed about it emotionally on The Filmcast. There it sat for a year until it qualified as the least watched movie in my list. Which is a little … Continue reading
Hostile Dimensions is a tiny tiny little found footage sci-fi/horror (comedy?) about a couple of documentarians researching a missing woman. According to her own found footage, she stepped through a mysterious door into an alternate dimension. The film makers find … Continue reading
Literally the only thing I found amusing about this action/comedy buddy-cop film was the title. At first, I was thinking it was a reference to the buddy-cop film The Nice Guys… and later I realized it was actually a play … Continue reading
Hell Hole is a movie I wanna like. It’s a low budget creature feature that is clearly trying… but also failing. It has some genuinely fun (and funny) moments but they are constantly backstabbed by too much dialog, too much … Continue reading