I rented You’re Killing Me since it gave me a Ready or Not vibe from the cover art and description… and that was pretty accurate, though at a much lower budget and far more scattered a tone and themes. The … Continue reading
Well, it’s amateur hour at the Amazon Prime studios and I’m sharpening my knife here. Yes, for the price of an hour and forty of your life and a Prime account, you too can watch one of the worst films … Continue reading
Chupa is a perfectly serviceable and mildly enjoyable family film about a kid who returns to Mexico to visit his cousins and his grandfather. And how he befriends a mythical chupacabra and has to keep it (and probably ET, The … Continue reading
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a co-production between Nintendo and Illumination… probably with Nintendo having dictatorial creative control so Hollywood wouldn’t turn out something as off-brand as the 1993 live action Mario Brothers movie. So that means a dedicated, … Continue reading
I care not a wit for basketball, Michael Jordan, Nike, or sneaker sales so it was up to everyone in front of the camera and behind the scenes to make me care about these topics… and they succeeded. Air is, … Continue reading
Smoking Causes Coughing is an absurdist French comedy that’s somehow about something very specific without being about anything at all. It’s what you get when you crash Power Rangers with an episode of Seinfeld. Commence head scratching now. The flick … Continue reading
Kill Boksoon is a South Korean action flick about a professional assassin who tries to keep her fifteen year old daughter unaware of her job. And how she may have made a mistake that turns her corporate assassin overlords against … Continue reading
It’d be unfair to this lovely, creative movie to call it a rom-com since that implies, shall we say, a lesser creative and artistic eye. Instead we’ll go with hang-out romance that just so happens to be very funny. That’s … Continue reading
Now this is more like it. I caught up with the original 2019 Murder Mystery earlier today and found it… tolerable. OKish. But this sequel is the exact kind of bad Adam Sandler / Netflix comedy I was expecting. Intolerably … Continue reading
About 84.4% better than I expected since I expected so little. Yet another squeaky clean prom-based teen romcom from Disney? But I gave it a chance and it was sweet and funny and both did – and did not – … Continue reading