Dec
26
We Can Be Heroes
I gave this one a shot only because I was lazy and when it showed up front and center on Netflix, I just hit the play button. And it was a kid friendly superhero flick and seemed ok… and then … Continue reading
Dec
25
Wonder Woman 84
Just repeat after yourself “This is not a sequel to the original Wonder Woman movie” and maybe you’ll be able to more quickly get into this movie or forgive its inconsistencies. Because Wonder Woman 84 is very much more of … Continue reading
Dec
25
Soul
Soul is a pretty marvelous film from those fine folks at Pixar. I’d say this is their best movie in recent years and inadvertently the best Christmas movie released this (miserable) year. Not actually a Christmas movie but released on … Continue reading
Dec
24
Craft Legacy, The
The Craft: Legacy finally turned from a $20 rental down to a more reasonable post-release streaming rental (6 bucks or so). I didn’t blow the 20 bucks simply because I’m not a devotee of the original film from 1996. It’s … Continue reading
Dec
23
War with Grandpa, The
The War with Grandpa is a decent, occasionally funny, and often surprisingly sweet film. With one major problem… it’s general premise. Kind of a big problem in an otherwise decent little movie. Robert DeNiro plays a grandpa who has to … Continue reading
Dec
21
Come Away
Just what we need… the gritty, morose reboot of both Peter Pan AND Alice in Wonderland. Any such reboot of one of these materials is sometimes too much… but add both characters in and I think I want to watch … Continue reading
Dec
20
Gamemaster
Gamemaster is a 2002 Amazon Prime documentary about modern board games… not your Monopolies and Clues but more your Settlers of Catans, Pandemics, or Cones of Dunshires. More advanced, more complex, more adult-skewing games that have exploded since, as the … Continue reading
Dec
19
Breach (2020)
I gave Breach a blind rent since I was optimistic for well-produced movies over the same rough time period that Hollywood was finally able to give us Tenet and Greenland. But, sadly, this is one of those movies where you … Continue reading
Dec
19
Greenland
Greenland is a terrible title for a low-expectation Gerard Butler disaster movie… that turned out to be better than I (or probably anyone) expected. The flick is out now on overpriced early rental and, presumably, theatrical release. I caught it … Continue reading
Dec
18
Tenet
The drama about Tenet’s release at theaters and now, finally, on streaming is greater, and more comprehensible, than the movie itself. Well, it finally did come to streaming and I finally did buy it (instead *gasp* of waiting 20 days … Continue reading