Weekend in Taipei is a perfectly ok one of these. An ok to enjoyable fairly generic action flick with a decent one-on-many fight, a pretty good car chase, and maybe a little too much family drama. Given I expected very … Continue reading
Things Will Be Different is a bit promising but ultimately a rough watch. It has a casual acceptance of big trippy sci-fi ideas that are mired in a desperately low-fi sci-fi environment. It’s about a brother and sister on the … Continue reading
Get Away is a theatrically released Shudder film starring (and written by) Nick Frost. That’s interesting in that Nick Frost has a second 2024 Shudder film that I keep meaning to watch called Black Cab. So I guess he’s in … Continue reading
What in the hell even is this 66 minute “movie” on Prime Video anyway? I’m guessing it’s something by, for, and about Brits only and maybe it just wasn’t for me (making it a mystery why its on Prime Video … Continue reading
I hit play on this Netflix animated Christmas movie with a bit of a ‘tude. And maybe that was the best way to approach it since the flick slowly melted my frozen heart. No reason to sneer at this genuinely … Continue reading
I didn’t expect the nominal sequel to the 2017 film Wonder to be about a girl being hidden from the Nazis during WW2. Wonder was a joyful and sad modern day film about a kid with a physical deformity so … Continue reading
Gary is a documentary about former star child Gary Coleman. I watched his sitcom DIff’rent Strokes back in the day and I guess you could say I had a certain affinity for him just because we were around the same … Continue reading
Sweethearts is a surprisingly decent romantic comedy that has the hallmarks of a bad one but manages to be just a little bit better. Wouldn’t say it’s my favorite anything, but its pretty good. It stars Kiernan Shipka and Nico … Continue reading
Nutcrackers is a drab, unconvincing Hulu Christmas film to the extent I’m seriously doubting it even IS a Christmas film. It’s got the bones of a good movie but the unconvincing storytelling of a mediocre one. It stars Ben Stiller … Continue reading
Heavier Trip is apparently the triumphant return of a fake metal band from Finland named Impaled Rektum (of course). I say apparently because I didn’t realize it was a sequel to 2018’s Heavy Trip until half way through the movie. … Continue reading