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
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
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
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
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
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
I’d prepped for the movie Mank by rewatching Citizen Kane, having not seen it since college. But it took me a few tries to get into this new film on Netflix… but it is a David Fincher movie and I’ve … Continue reading
I gave this flick a shot because (like many people, apparently) I was suckered in by the trailer. It looked like a big goofy corny ball of kung fu / sci-fi fun. The kind of thing that you can laugh … Continue reading
The Prom is a lot of things. It’s charming, it’s sweet, it’s condescending, it’s assured, it’s witty, it’s mean, it’s judgmental, it’s fabulous, it’s over-the-top, it’s a little long, it’s well-meaning, it’s confused, it’s assured, and its a little important … Continue reading
Songbird is a curious film that could have been renamed “Well, I guess it could have been worse?”. The film was made during lockdown and is no small, web-cam-focused film like Host was. It’s produced by Michael Bay and uses … Continue reading