Here is We Live in Time if we’re more interested in a living room than actual human beings. A gimmick film that only marginally succeeds maybe arguably possibly in the last twenty minutes where we’ve finally spent enough time with … Continue reading
It takes real effort to make a truly bad documentary. Even if you (the viewer) aren’t interested in the topic or even disagree with the thesis, a doc is usually at least informative and interesting on some level. Seeking Mavis … Continue reading
Girl Haunts Boy was a possibility for spooky season since, y’know: Ghosts. But it looked more like a dopey rom-com so I put it off. But Netflix beckons and on my way to catching up with all the non-spooky movies … Continue reading
Canary Black is a spy thriller. And… hmm… I can’t think of anything clever or interesting to say about it in my intro paragraph. That’s not a good sign. It stars Kate Beckinsale as one of those super spies whose … Continue reading
Brothers is a comedy with a remarkably good cast for such a remarkably bad movie. One of those fierce comedic bombs that makes you wonder if it was so unfunny on the page or if the non-comic actors were asked … Continue reading
The Shadow Strays is the kind of mindless, repetitive action film that can fill the screen with so many clashing swords and yet leave me deeply, deeply bored. But that’s largely a me thing… action junkies will probably love it. It’s … Continue reading
Apocalypse Z (The Beginning of the End) is a Prime Video zombie flick from Spain. It’s a pretty standard zombie outbreak film that offers very little new… but what it does, it does well enough to get a solid recommendation. … Continue reading
Time Cut is an interesting problem for a Netflix flasher film. Similar to Totally Killer, it’s a slasher film and a time travel movie and it doesn’t get either quite right, though for different reasons. It’s about a town that … Continue reading
Succubus is a weird mixture of trashy, sexy, sensual, surreal, icky, campy, and wired. I didn’t expect much going in… mainly maybe a little trashy fun, but honestly not a lot of hope for a good film. But I was … Continue reading
The Radleys is a vampire film… a horror (?) comedy (??) about a suburban family of vampires. The parents know what they are and choose to Abstain, their teenage son and daughter don’t know. But when the daughter goes Vegan, … Continue reading