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
I wasn’t even going to bother with Netflix’s latest SpongeBob movie. I’ve seen two of the films and only a handful of the original series. I was much too old for the show so I have no built up nostalgia. … Continue reading
When I bought my ticket to Kneecap, the ticker seller asked what the movie was. I shrugged and explained what I knew… it was about an Irish musical duo who insist on rapping in Irish. I shrugged and said, “If … Continue reading
#AMFAD is a pretty solid (if a little cringe quirky) slasher horror/comedy. It has a rocky opening but settles down into a watchable flick with an amusing sense of humor, a gallon of blood, and enough characters worth killing to … Continue reading
Detained is a single location thriller that’s allegedly full of mental twists and turns… except it’s largely predictable and obvious. It’s an utter failure at the one thing it needs to be: surprising. It’s about a woman brought into a … Continue reading
Dead Sea is a movie that I should rate lower, but I’m giving it a bump because, despite its many faults, I realized I cared. Somehow this tepid, slow-paced thriller full of frustrations and annoyances convinced me to root – … Continue reading
As a child, I wasn’t a fan of Harold and the Purple Crayon. I was a stan for The Monster at the End of This Book. Those scaredy-cat “Crayolas” had to have a magic crayon for their imagination. “Book Monsters” … Continue reading
Daddy Hitchcock would be proud. M. Night Shyamalan has made an excellent thriller that would have delighted the master film theorist and audience manipulator. A film that is just as good at being a suspense thriller as it is at … Continue reading