Snack Shack is a coming-of-age comedy that may have an aroma of familiarity but vernally comes off as good natured and authentic. It’s about two teens who need to make cash over the summer so they take over the community … Continue reading
The dictionary definition of mess is this film. A slide into disorder and chaos where nobody is right and a solution may not even exist. It’s not a horror movie… but it is a nightmare. This German film is set … Continue reading
Immediately I was taken out of this movie by my pedantic annoyance at the title. It should be French-Canadian Girl. <shakes tiny fist in impotent, irrelevant rage>. But one could equally argue it should be called Meet The Canadian Parents. … Continue reading
Journey to Bethlehem opens with a title card saying it’s based on a true story… the greatest story ever told, as it turns out. This comforts me because it suggests the movie I’m watching is just a tribute (you gotta … Continue reading
Loop Track is film about an introverted paranoid New Zealnder with social anxiety problems that make me look like a goddamn social butterfly. All he wants is to go for a long multi-day hike by himself, get away from the … Continue reading
The Wages of Fear (2024) on Netflix is the latest adaptation of the book… or a remake of either the 1953 film or Sorcerer from 1977. And what does a modern French remake of two classic white-knuckle adventures that were … Continue reading
To be perfectly clear, Godzilla x Kong is 10 pounds of stupid in a 5 pound bag. Taken as a film for intellectual film snobs, it’s trash. Taken as a film that inhabits exactly what the kid in me who … Continue reading
After a somber and frustrating first act, I was surprised and curious to realize I was watching Jim Henson’s Rashomon Babies. A film that unfolds in an elementary school across three different points of view, slowly folding out to reveal … Continue reading
Late Night with the Devil kind of surprised me by doing something a little different with the standard-issue found footage film. For one thing, it’s got more in common with something like Ghostwatch than Paranormal Activity. And it actually dares … Continue reading
Molli and Max in the Future is a very silly, very corny pup sci-fi satire of romantic comedy… and also a very good romantic comedy at that. It absolutely shouldn’t work but by the third act, I was surprisingly engaged … Continue reading