As a general rule, I liked most Wes Anderson movies and, furthermore, I like his vibe even if, on occasion, I don’t like his stories. And that’s true with The French Dispatch… it oozes his distant, arch narrative style and … Continue reading
A Mouthful of Air has Amanda Seyfried in a performance that I didn’t expect from her. Not that I’ve ever thought of her as a bad actress, but there’s something raw and dark and alive about her performance here that … Continue reading
Needle in a Timestack is a melancholy romance with a sci-fi high concept. In the near future, time travel is possible. It’s expensive but you can contract with a company to send you back… but making changes is illegal. That … Continue reading
Warning is poorly made and poorly told anthology of short sci-fi films that are jammed together and pureed into a confused soup. Each mediocre story is intercut with other stories and if you ever get confused, then welcome to the … Continue reading
I had a bit of an issue going into this prequel to the zombie heist film Army of the Dead… specifically that this centers on the most annoying character from that big budget zombie film. The one I liked the … Continue reading
13 Minutes is a fairly low budget disaster/tornado film that focuses on an average town somewhere in the midwest, USA. It’s characters are mostly regular lower-to-middle class folk – ranchers, motel staff, salon workers – with one couple being a … Continue reading
And here’s part 2 of my over-doing-it-with-horror-movies post… more classic (20+ years old) horror flicks. 1935 – Mad Love – I don’t think I’d ever heard of this one but was on the lookout for a 1930s horror flick and … Continue reading
This latest iteration of the Paranormal Activity franchise (premiering on Paramount+) doesn’t feel like it belongs to the series. It feels like a separate found footage film that they slapped the name onto. It doesn’t have any of the trademarks … Continue reading
This anthology has six short films (and no frame story, thankfully) filmed by and starring African Americans. It’s a Shudder spin-off to the Black Noire documentary from a few years ago. That doc promoted the history of black people in … Continue reading
The only thing I knew about Last Night in Soho was that it was directed by Edgar Wright and it was classified as horror. I went in blind and I was met with something that was aggressively not a horror … Continue reading