There’s absolutely no reason for me to find this meditative Japanese film so compelling… and yet I do. It disobeys most rules of drama and simply chooses to let nothing happen of dramatic merit for almost the entire runtime. And … Continue reading
Greedy People is a sporadic and uneven crime/thriller/comedy that wants you to think about a Coen Brothers film while you watch it. Not as good as most of their oeuvre, but certainly playing in the same crime comedy ballpark. The … Continue reading
Blink Twice is a bit of a problem movie. It has a good setup but it slogs down in the middle before delivering a pretty great finale. It’s such a good ending that it blew past my three stars and … Continue reading
I added Just. One. Mile. to my watchlist after podcaster Jeff Cannata gushed about it emotionally on The Filmcast. There it sat for a year until it qualified as the least watched movie in my list. Which is a little … Continue reading
Hostile Dimensions is a tiny tiny little found footage sci-fi/horror (comedy?) about a couple of documentarians researching a missing woman. According to her own found footage, she stepped through a mysterious door into an alternate dimension. The film makers find … Continue reading
Literally the only thing I found amusing about this action/comedy buddy-cop film was the title. At first, I was thinking it was a reference to the buddy-cop film The Nice Guys… and later I realized it was actually a play … Continue reading
Hell Hole is a movie I wanna like. It’s a low budget creature feature that is clearly trying… but also failing. It has some genuinely fun (and funny) moments but they are constantly backstabbed by too much dialog, too much … Continue reading
Strange Darling is a curious and somewhat fascinating film that weaponizes our empathy and compassion as movie goers. Much in the same way one of the characters turns those traits on other people in the movie itself. It’s an odd … Continue reading
Incoming isn’t the best teen comedy I’ve ever seen and is actually overly-familiar in its characters and plotlines. But I bet it could be a formative, iconic film to just the right teenager looking for a modern teen comedy. Get … Continue reading
I thought the original graphic novel and the Brandon Lee adaptation of The Crow from the 90s were perfectly fine. They also feel like a property best suited for the goth era they came from. But they went and made … Continue reading