She Said tells the true story of how the New York Times investigated and ran an article about human garbage Harvey Weinstein. It follows the lead reporters as they try to interview woman after frightened woman about their experiences working … Continue reading
Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds doing Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? You know this ain’t gonna be a straight adaptation and it most certainly isn’t. There are so many Christmas Carol adaptations that this film turns it into a cottage industry. … Continue reading
Forgive me for using this obvious but completely apt adjective here, but The Menu is a delicious movie-going experience. A wicked and cruelly delightful satirical spit in the eye of a film. The flick is about an exclusive island where … Continue reading
The latest re-animated fan favorite franchise that threatens to ruin your childhood is somehow not brought to you by Disney+. No, this time it’s HBO Max potentially bringing the hurt with A Christmas Story Christmas. Will it crush your withered … Continue reading
First Love is a basic, no-frills, earnest, old-fashioned romance. Not a rom-com, not a melodramatic potboiler, not an R rated farce, not overly saccharin. It’s, unfortunately, also a little bit too drama-free and struggles to justify it’s relatively average runtime. … Continue reading
I rolled the bones on another blind watch and I may as well not have since I won’t remember this is a week. The Friendship Game is a muddled mess of teen melodrama vaguely connected to an evil(?) spinning orb … Continue reading
Code Name Banshee is one hell of a schizophrenic movie. It starts with a laughably bad action scene and I pretty much wrote it off as Z grade cinema. And then Antonio Banderas shows up and suddenly the non-action drama … Continue reading
RIPD 2 is what you get when you complain about Ryan Reynolds doing the same old schtick in all his movies and then they release an unexpected and unwanted sequel to one of his most forgettable movies that really needed … Continue reading
My Father’s Dragon is a bit of an unconventional animated fantasy. A little unfocused and maybe underwritten too… but super well-meaning and earnest. I’m just not 100% sure what it all means which might be a flaw in the script … Continue reading
Three cheer for the interobang!?! Oh wait what? Yeah, Is That Black Enough for You?!? is a pretty good documentary about the rise of black film (blaxploitation, even) from 1968-1978… and black actors, directors, and writers throughout cinema history in … Continue reading