May December is about a sleazy tabloid topic that’s too smart and too subtle to be about what it’s about. On the one hand, it’s quiet and introspective and then it delivers a soundtrack that suggests its 200% more melodramatic … Continue reading
I desperately wanted to love this movie since I loved its setup and premise: what if Freddy Krueger was a boring college professor who does nothing in your dreams? And it was cooler because I had just a did a … Continue reading
I’m not an expert on all the eras of Godzilla, but it feels to me like Godzilla Minus One is unique among the films I’ve seen. Godzilla originated with, and sometimes returns to, the idea of Japan’s national trauma from … Continue reading
Family Switch is the Human Centipede 2 of body swap movies. Instead of a daughter and mother switching, we get a total of three swaps within one family… it’s a body swap movie only with more body swapping than usual. … Continue reading
Satanic Hispanics is an anthology horror film that’s a little uneven and yet ends so spectacularly, it’s worth watching just to get to its final ten minutes. Like many anthologies, it has a wrap-around/frame story and then its selection of … Continue reading
If You Were the Last is a sci-fi rom-com that people seem to like… as someone who doesn’t understand hu-mans, I’m at a bit of a loss. I didn’t think much of this film or its two leads… I didn’t … Continue reading
57 Seconds is a wholly unremarkable but fairly watchable sci-fi time loop thriller. It stars Josh Hutcherson (with an assist from Morgan Freeman who wanders in and out of the movie) as a blogger on the tail of a crooked … Continue reading
See You on Venus is ultimately a very familiar ticking clock romance between two impossibly pretty actors that you’ve seen before and can probably outthink in a microsecond. It doesn’t help that the moon-brained girl fantasizes about Venus as this … Continue reading
Curse this fuzzy little movie, I swore to myself I wouldn’t fall for its manipulative charms. I didn’t know what form they would take, but after Paddington and The Boy, The Horse, The Fox, and the Mole exhibited a certain … Continue reading
Genie is a bit of a nothing movie but it’s also a bit funny and a bit heartwarming. I probably won’t remember much about it in a few days but its an ok time-waster of a Christmas flick. It stars … Continue reading