I thought I was going to rate this Tyler Perry flick pretty well in its first half hour. It sets up interesting characters and scenario where someone is murdered. I saw the murder mystery / conspiracy structure setup and I … Continue reading
O’Dessa is a Hulu movie apparently directed by two people in one body. The one who made the joyful, transfixing musical loved what he was making and poured his imaginative soul into it. The other one just slapped together a … Continue reading
The Twister is a Netflix documentary about the real-world twister that pounded Joplin, Missouri in 2011. It uses a lot of footage taken by the folks who lived through it plus a lot of hand-wavey hooey fake footage of this … Continue reading
Striving for the position of “Anti-Fun Curmudgeon of the Year”, here’s my entry. I hate Looney Tunes, apparently… or I hated this modern endless diversion of madcap tomfoolery that didn’t make me laugh once. Because I had my fun-o-meter surgically … Continue reading
Borderline is a thriller/stalker/comedy that walks a tight-rope of maybe being too creepy and making fun too much of stalkers. But I think it finds the right wobbly balance and charming helter skelter crazy to get away with it. It … Continue reading
The Parenting is a pretty good horror/comedy that gets a boost for its title. It reminds me of The Shining, The Blackening, The Happening, and Highlander II: The Quickening. (<SIDE NOTE>Some of these movies listed are slightly better than others</SIDE … Continue reading
The Electric State is a blah sci-fi movie full of big half-assed ideas you’ve seen a bunch of times before. It could have been decent if they had put in more effort and taken anything seriously. Instead it screws around … Continue reading
If you’re not here for Malkovitch, you might as well stay home. Opus is a VERY familiar film… yet another “we’ve been invited somewhere and it’s a cult!” movie and not a particularly good or bad one. Just one that … Continue reading
Control Freak is a film padded out from a short film (which I haven’t seen). It feels like a lot of wheel spinning and time wasting in order to get to whatever point the short got to. I found it … Continue reading
Steven Soderbergh rolled the dice and this time it came up spy thriller on a nat 20… so he added a bonus mystery whodunit to the mix. He just got done with his unconventional ghost movie and just decides to … Continue reading