Confession time: I am not a fan of Guy Ritchie’s style or storytelling, at least in his crime thrillers. So keep that in mine… I’m so not the target audience when I say that I was deeply bored, distracted, and … Continue reading
I enjoyed a decent amount of this film but feel that, while retaining the themes, it kind of lost the plot half-way through. And that’s a little unfair since the movie has a premise – young woman joins New York … Continue reading
Time for another roll-up of classic movies (that sometimes stretches the concept of a “classic”). Read on… or keep scrolling, friends and neighbors. A Day’s Pleasure – 1919 – A somewhat amusing Chaplin short, certainly not as good as some … Continue reading
When just about everything goes wrong with a movie, you get Redemption Day. It’s a wannabe Jack Ryan/Tom Clancy geopolitical thriller that doesn’t have the smarts for those ambitions. It’s poorly directed and mushily edited, the acting is sometimes pretty … Continue reading
Voyagers is about as YA as a movie can YA. Which isn’t a crime… just an observation. This baby’s first generation ship science fiction story… which also isn’t a crime, especially if you haven’t read (or seen) much sci-fi. Or … Continue reading
Probably gonna be an unpopular opinion, but I was quite disappointed at how disappointed I was in Raya and the Last Dragon. For a movie that took me this long to see, I guess I built it up in my … Continue reading
Without Remorse’s first problem is a title so generic it makes me miss The Hunt for Red October and The Sum of All Fears. But a title isn’t a movie. In this case though, a generic title for a kind … Continue reading
For the first twenty minutes, I legitimately loved The Mitchells vs. the Machines. It was about the family… it was sweet, it felt truthful, and I laughed out loud a number of times. I dug its visual style, the lead … Continue reading
Things Heard & Seen is a movie about ghosts that isn’t a horror film (to its credit). It IS a suspense/thriller about a marriage falling apart, lies, deceit, and the slow unravelling of truth. It just happens to be set … Continue reading
Following the literal rapture, people are isolated to their towns and totalitarian rule is established. The rumored existence of a door in the desert leading those left behind to salvation results in some risking their lives and freedom to escape. … Continue reading