A Quiet Place: Day One should have just been renamed A Quiet Place: NYC since it wants to be the epic scale version of the Quiet Place Franchise. Yes, it happens on Day One of the invasion (but so too … Continue reading
You’ve seen slow zombies, you’ve seen fast zombies, and you’ve seen ultra-fast zombies… but have you ever seen ultra-slow zombies? Zombies that don’t amble, they don’t shamble… they mainly just sit there, gathering flies. Handling the Undead is a Norwegian … Continue reading
It occurs to me that this recent string of veteran actresses (Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Lilly Tomlin, Kathy Bates, etc.) in these screw-around while nothing happens comedies is just the female side of the geezer teaser phenomenon where older actors … Continue reading
Ghostlight crept up on me as I was watching and slapped me in the face with how good it was. It was never bad… but it kind of hid its point and its direction well so once I saw where … Continue reading
If Rachel Sennott wasn’t already my secret Canadian girlfriend (who clearly lives in Niagara) after Shiva Baby and Bottoms, she is now. I loved Shiva Baby (and Bodies, Bodies, Bodies) and thought she was funny in Bottoms, but I don’t … Continue reading
Trigger Warning reminds of the halcyon days of better Netflix action flicks like The Grey Man and Red Notice. Call it The Beige Project… just a blah bag of beige boredom bothering my beleaguered eyes. Jessica Alba came out of … Continue reading
The Exorcism is a horror flick with a great idea and terrible execution. If I could score points purely based on cleverness, it’d score pretty high. An exorcism flick set during the filming of a remake of a famous exorcism … Continue reading
With multiple seasons of Sons of Anarchy out there that I have no interest in, perhaps The Bikeriders wasn’t a movie exactly for me. And it wasn’t. Whoever made this drastically over-estimated my interest in a shaggy, plotless biker gang … Continue reading
June Squibb plays a senior citizen who gets taken for $10,000 by phone scammers pretending to be her dimwit grandson. Once she remembers where she wrote down their address, she sets out on a quest to get money back. In … Continue reading
As a white boy growing up in the 70s and 80s, I was aware there was a Black Barbie but I never owned a Barbie, much less a Black Barbie. Now that I’ve seen the doc, I think I was … Continue reading