It took me longer than usual to get around to A Complete Unknown… mainly due to sleep problems over the holidays and never being awake for showings. But schedules are shifting and Saturday’s 10am showing synced with my schedule… that … Continue reading
Bloody Axe Wound is a movie that had an idea and execution… but made so little sense that I spent the whole time wondering what they were even doing. It’s about a town with a long-running slasher problem. It stars … Continue reading
Babygirl is like 50 Shades of Grey and all those toxic Netflix knock-offs… only its complicated, mature, and adult in ways those lesser films are not. It feels like it was written by someone who understands adults and adult desires… … Continue reading
Y’know, with a title like Nightbitch, I was expecting something a lot more hardcore. And, yeah, I knew the basic premise so I also expected themes of motherhood and depression. Instead I got a movie that was shouting those brilliant … Continue reading
Apparently I continue to be radically behind on my modern stand-up comedians and apparently should watch more Netflix specials to keep up. Then maybe I’d appreciate these various stand-ups who man and woman this Netflix roast of 2024. I agree … Continue reading
I kind of enjoyed this movie… until I didn’t. I kind of cynically understood whatit was saying… until I didn’t. I don’t think a movie could self-destruct so gloriously in its final act… until it did. A Different Man is … Continue reading
Nosferatu is Robert Eggers’ fourth – and best – full-length film. And it almost wasn’t if its over-familiarity kept getting in my way. I mean, it’s just Bram Stoker’s Dracula as filtered through the original 1929 silent film and a … Continue reading
Based on the descriptions of this film, I was expecting more of a supernatural/psychological thriller where reality bends and nightmares take over. The film isn’t that at all… and waiting for the zone of the twilight blackened mirror to hit … Continue reading
The God’s Not Dead franchise is an easy one to hate… but I like to give each film a chance. And sometimes that means ignoring its self-righteous, delusional take on American Christianity. The franchise tends to believes in the persecution … Continue reading
Chasing Amy is Kevin Smith’s third film and is known as an important milestone in ’90s queer cinema… as told by a straight white dude. And while it’s a good film, everyone these days seems to agree that it hasn’t … Continue reading