Rob Peace is a well-intentioned, good-hearted film about a young black man admitted to Yale while trying to find a way to get his dad out of prison. It’s produced and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor and he does a good … Continue reading
Alien: Romulus is a mash-up of just about every alien movie, though borrowing more from Alien and Aliens (naturally). But they also include some ideas from Prometheus, imagery from Alien 3, and some WTF-even-is-that-it-ness from Alien: Resurrection. It’s just about … Continue reading
When I first saw there was going to be a Watchmen animated adaptation, it looked so similar to the Zack Snyder film, I couldn’t figure out why they’d bother. But that impression was wrong as this film more closely follows … Continue reading
When the most interesting thing about your werewolf movie is that its a mini-reunion of Game of Thrones actors, you’ve done something wrong. But, yeah, we get Kit Harrington (complete with pelts) and James Cosmo (who played Lord Commander Mormont) … Continue reading
I wasn’t sure what to expect from It Ends With Us as I hadn’t read the book or seen a trailer. I knew it starred Blake Lively and, rumor has it, got a writing punch up from her hubby Ryan … Continue reading
Like the main characters of this movie, the film does just enough to get by. It isn’t stellar but its consistently amusing enough. I kept wondering if it would be anything more than it is… and it wasn’t. But that’s … Continue reading
Hold onto your butts… I don’t want to blow your minds or anything, but The Mouse Trap – the Steamboat Willie/Mickey Mouse is in the Public Domain exploitation flick – is a pretty shitty movie. Yes, this is the sad … Continue reading
Inside the Mind of a Dog sounds like a companion piece to Inside the Mind of a Cat, also a Netflix documentary about our furry friends. But it’s not… it seems to have an entirely different focus (and Rob Lowe, … Continue reading
Cuckoo… as the title might imply… is a real head trip. A creepy, bizarre film in the “never trust a health clinic in the middle of nowhere” sub-genre. I was engaged with it… but also skeptical. That is until the … Continue reading
Knives are out for Borderlands… very low critic scores, pretty low (so far) LB ratings, based on a video game, delayed for a long, long time, and a pretty iffy trailer. So color me surprised when I had a blast … Continue reading