Also checked out a random theatrical release called Mia and the White Lion. I had seen one trailer for it – but the movie is so obscure, the trailer was playing in front of another movie while it was already … Continue reading
So I checked out the movie The Public the other day… and I can say with some assurance that this is the very best movie ever produced about the Cincinnati Public Library that has yet been made. Might even be … Continue reading
Also went to see the movie After. I had the feeling it was based on a YA novel but I’d not see a trailer nor read the synopsis on the book. So, hey, nice to see a movie blind and … Continue reading
Went to see the new comedy Little… which is a body-swap movie whose title suggests Big in reverse. Because it is… it’s about an adult woman who gets hit with a magical whammy and reverts to her early teenage self. … Continue reading
So there’s a new Hellboy movie out this weekend that is not a sequel to the previous two films but is also not quite a full reboot or remake. Guillermo Del Toro’s first two Hellboy movies were never never my … Continue reading
And, finally, watched the new Netflix horror flick The Silence. Which has nothing to do with A Quiet Place… honest! This is based on a book published in 2015… so odds are Quiet Place may have been inspired by the … Continue reading
Also checked out the new Laikia-produced animated film Missing Link. Laika is a studio that makes mostly stop-motion pictures that I should like… but never really do. So I didn’t go into this one with high hopes. Missing Link … Continue reading
Subscribed to HBO Now (since Dish Network is somehow still fighting with HBO) for Game of Throne purposes, so gave their most recent in-the-news documentary The Inventor (Out for Blood in Silicon Valley) a watch. This is the story of … Continue reading
Checked out the new flick Best of Enemies which is the true story of school integration and the unlikely friendship between the Klan leader and a black community activist in 1970. This is a well-meaning but ultimately wrong-headed and poorly … Continue reading
So I grinned my way through the latest DC superhero flick Shazam! That wasn’t an excited sentence, the ! is in the title (Shazam!). And that’s pretty apt since the movie sometimes feels like a overexcited puppy… and other times … Continue reading