Alice is a film with a very similar premise to the 2020 film Antebellum but Alice takes the earlier film’s concept further. Indeed, it takes the more interesting route. Where Antebellum ends and I asked the question “OK… now what?”, … Continue reading
I didn’t watch this movie expecting it to be good, I watched it expecting it to be hilariously bad. And it wasn’t… it was just your average everyday level of bad. It wasn’t this train-wreck of hilarity, it was just … Continue reading
Kicking Blood: A Vampire Love Story is a vampire flick that’s not particularly interested in being a vampire flick. Instead, it’d rather – quite flatly – wants to be an exploration of addiction and recovery. And its not terrible at … Continue reading
Sigh. Yup… Morbius is as bad as the salivating press said it was going to be… as bad as the Letterboxd scores, as bad as Rotten Tomatoes says. It’s sad because I was hoping this wouldn’t just be an Easy … Continue reading
Madelines is about a married couple working on time travel in their backyard shed. When the wife – Madeline – gets tipsy and decides on human trials, a bug in her code results in one Madeline appearing in their back … Continue reading
Even by Richard Linklater’s sometimes shaggy standards of what makes a narrative film, this movie is barely a movie. More of a memory or animated documentary about what it was like growing up in the space age of the 1960s. … Continue reading
The post credit scene in this Netflix original is a microcosm of what’s wrong with this film. It’s Fred Armisen as the movie-with-a-movie’s director wearing a face shield. The joke line is “It’s really hard to direct in this thing.” … Continue reading
I don’t know where Moonshot came from and I’m not sure why it ranks an HBO Max release. It feels like a Disney Channel show or a particularly average Netflix original. But, no, it earns its way onto HBO Max … Continue reading
Sin Eater is a horror movie with a lot against it and a curious amount for it… on occasion. The good stuff kind of snuck in and surprised me in between a lot of iffy acting and bad pacing. But … Continue reading
Panama is simply a laughable, borderline incompetent snooze-fest. A generic, probably unintentional throwback action thriller that offers nothing new or interesting. In that it barely co-stars Mel Gibson borders on – and likely steps into – Bruce Willis incompetence territory. … Continue reading