After watching (and loving) RRR from this director, I circled back around to see his earlier over-the-top, earnest, committed action romance spectacle Bāhubali (the Beginning). And I was pretty gripped by it for the first half… but maybe not so … Continue reading
Moloch is a Shudder original Dutch horror film that isn’t so much a slow burn as it just takes a long time to get to the point. But, once it does, it’s suitably creepy and almost makes an argument for … Continue reading
The Gray Man doesn’t start strong and I was all settled into a really mediocre and annoyingly long sit… and then it wormed its way into me until I realized, no, I was actually having fun with this nonsense. And … Continue reading
Nope is the latest sci-fi/horror film from Jordan Peele after his knock-out hit of Get Out and less successful (but interesting) Us. It takes his encyclopedia of film tropes to a new frontier… sci-fi/horror with nods and winks to the … Continue reading
Live Is Life is a Spanish coming-of-age film that borrows loosely from other, similar films like Stand By Me. This pre-programs me to want to love it. It’s about five teenage boys in Spain who set out on adventure (after … Continue reading
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is about Mrs. Harris who goes to Paris… to buy a Christian Dior gown (frock) in 1957. She has no practical idea how the House of Dior works, but she’s got gumption and the respect … Continue reading
Room 203 is a horror show that – like many others – leans on the crutch of dark room = scary and then forgets to be scary. I shudder to think what these filmmakers would do if anyone turned on … Continue reading
Don’t Make Me Go is an Amazon Prime original with an emotional time bomb at its core. You know it’s coming and you know it’s probably going to wreck you and the longer the movie goes and the longer you … Continue reading
Where the Crawdads Sing is based on a book I’d forgotten about and certainly hadn’t read. So I went in pretty blind, figuring it might be a swamp-based adventure… having not put any thought into whether or not a crawdad … Continue reading
Despite the fact I didn’t laugh once, despite the fact the movie is super derivative of “other” films, and despite the fact the art and animation is pretty mid-tier… I didn’t hate this movie. I didn’t particularly like it either… … Continue reading