You Are Not My Mother
You Are Not My Mother wants to burn slow and make the skin crawl. It does one of those two things… it’s a slow burn. But it didn’t make my skin crawl even though it desperately tried to with its … Continue reading
You Are Not My Mother wants to burn slow and make the skin crawl. It does one of those two things… it’s a slow burn. But it didn’t make my skin crawl even though it desperately tried to with its … Continue reading
The latest Liam Neeson joint is just mind-numbingly, bone-crushingly, thumb-screwingly boring. Just a long slog of tedium… in a movie that think its has something to say and wants to be this serious-minded criminal investigation flick. And a hit-man with … Continue reading
The premise of this movie – in a CIA black site, a terrorist breaks free and begins to hunt the operatives – got me interested. It sounded maybe like a military slasher film, a reverse Die Hard, or if John … Continue reading
The previous 360 Days ended on a cliffhanger that this movie just hand-waves away. Whatever drama they were setting up? Nah. Now we have these two lovers getting married and we’re supposed to forget, I guess, all the kidnapping and … Continue reading
I skipped this one back in 2020, but with its sequel racing up the ratings charts (in reverse), I figured it was time to see if this movie actually earns all those half star reviews. It does. It very much … Continue reading
Catwoman: Hunted is the latest DC animated superhero flicks that takes a slight left by having an anime (or anime-inspired) style. That doesn’t mean it’s not fairly cheap animation, but at least its got its own style (though I think … Continue reading
I like to kick puppies and give silly little trifles like Crush bad reviews. I’m a monster… neither puppies nor this film deserve hate, but sometimes the movie is just mediocre despite its best charm offensive. The dog doesn’t deserve … Continue reading
Went blind to a Finnish horror film called Hatching (thought it was Hatchling, but I guess the difference is minimal). Not sure why this rated a theatrical release… but my local theater has about five three-hour-long Bollywood flicks so a … Continue reading
7 Days is a cute, charming movie about Covid. Or, rather, it’s a movie about two Indian-American twentysomethings who are on a date (arranged by their mothers) when the lock-down hits. Now they have to shelter-in-place together. Only for him … Continue reading
OK, so maybe I wasn’t expecting a heartbreaking work of staggering genius when I sat down to watch this film, but I didn’t expect to dislike it. But as I sat there trapped in my movie theater seat, the feeling … Continue reading