I had little interest in seeing this film… but the more I heard it was a blatantly right-wing worship festival, the more ghoulishly curious I became. Would it be that blatant? Would it be that bad a movie? Well, it … Continue reading
The only thing I knew about City of Dreams was that it was an immigrant story. The person who said that was sugar-coating it because, yeah, its an immigrant story in the same way Grave of the Fireflies is about … Continue reading
Uwe Boll?!!? Didn’t he retire a few years ago? But he’s back and not directing another video game adaptation. I watched First Shift out of morbid curiosity: had the auteur of classics like BloodRayne and Alone in the Dark found … Continue reading
On the one hand, Afraid is just another smart home automation AI paranoia film that borrows a little too much from Her and Megan. On the other hand, I kind of liked how it ended even if getting there was … Continue reading
Netflix presents Lee Daniel’s Deliverance… or The Deliverance if you are doing the bare minimum to not remind people of squealing like a pig. I get it, I get it… a lot of people don’t know Deliverance and it’s not … Continue reading
Slingshot is a frustrating and frustrated science fiction film that has one tiny bit of scientific knowledge and hand-waves away the rest. But I was ok with that since it’s a low budget film that opts to go psychological over … Continue reading
There’s absolutely no reason for me to find this meditative Japanese film so compelling… and yet I do. It disobeys most rules of drama and simply chooses to let nothing happen of dramatic merit for almost the entire runtime. And … Continue reading
Greedy People is a sporadic and uneven crime/thriller/comedy that wants you to think about a Coen Brothers film while you watch it. Not as good as most of their oeuvre, but certainly playing in the same crime comedy ballpark. The … Continue reading
Blink Twice is a bit of a problem movie. It has a good setup but it slogs down in the middle before delivering a pretty great finale. It’s such a good ending that it blew past my three stars and … Continue reading
I added Just. One. Mile. to my watchlist after podcaster Jeff Cannata gushed about it emotionally on The Filmcast. There it sat for a year until it qualified as the least watched movie in my list. Which is a little … Continue reading