I watched the Netflix movie All Together Now for one reason alone: it stars Auli’i Cravalho. The young actress played the voice of Moana in Disney’s animated film and she seemed like a bright, energetic presence in all the behind-the-scenes … Continue reading
I only partially recall HBO’s Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (from 1987) which was a movie based on the same trial as the new Netflix film The Trial of the Chicago 7. Having seen that movie so long … Continue reading
Love and Monsters is a new PVOD (premium video-on-demand… aka… $20 rental/$25 purchase at time of release) movie that I kind of rented blind. I caught it on Amazon Prime but it’s available elsewhere as well. I gave it a … Continue reading
Horror Noire is a 2019 documentary about black people in horror movies that premiered on the streaming channel Shudder but is, in October 2020, streaming for free on Amazon Prime (where I saw it). It’s one I’ve wanted to see … Continue reading
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet is a new Netflix documentary released this month. As he states, this is his witness statement. Mr. Attenborough is a famous naturalist who has made many, many informative and beautiful nature documentaries. He’s … Continue reading
Totally Under Control is a new documentary about the response to COVID-19 by the US government that’s available on streaming. It’s not only new, but also radically up-to-date, including a last minute text insertion at the end of the movie … Continue reading
You Should Have left is a perfect, if slightly on the nose, title for a spook house movie. It’s what we all say in a haunted house movie and they just went and put it in on all the advertising. … Continue reading
The 2019 movie 1BR is about a young woman who moves to LA to find freedom from her past. She gets the opportunity to move into a fairly exclusive luxury apartment… but not everything is as it seems. While I … Continue reading
A pretty accurate content warning on Netflix for the latest American Pie movie: “Pervasive strong /crude sexual content, language throughout, alcohol and some drug use – all involving teens”. Yeah, that’s about right for the new movie American Pie: Girls’ … Continue reading
I am… perplexed and befuddled by Hubie Halloween. On the one hand, I shouldn’t be… it’s yet another low effort Adam Sandler comedy on Netflix. Yet… there’s something just… weird about this one. Just… weird. And, of course, there’s the … Continue reading