Colors of Evil: Red is a Netflix detective/mystery/serial killer investigation film set in Poland. A young woman is found murdered in the same fashion as a killer with the same M.O. is paroled. This sets off an investigation led by … Continue reading
The Watchers is what happens when a deeply stupid script full of people who barely act like people meet a pretty good eye for visuals. This movie is capital D dumb… poorly written and full of ADR to, I guess, … Continue reading
Hell is other people… and also your own bad decisions. This Spanish horror flick is… disturbing. And disturbed. And not a fun time in front of a screen. It’s cruel and unpleasant and if you want to see how to … Continue reading
Pretty telling about the quality of shark movies as a whole when this pretty good Netflix one hits my top 5. It’s not that great a film so much as the flotsam and jetsam of this terrible sub-genre is populated … Continue reading
You Can’t Run Forever is mostly a forgettable attempt at deep woods suspense… until you realize JK Simmons is slumming it by playing a crazy guy with a gun. Why JK Simmons? I dunno. Maybe he wanted a new pool? … Continue reading
Bionic is a Portuguese hybrid Netflix film about a near future where artificial limb technology is significantly advanced. A female Olympic athlete has just such a bionic limb while her equally athletic younger sister does not. But a crime syndicate … Continue reading
Sometimes you just gotta watch Cinderella take her revenge in a low budget borderline slasher film that throws in a gratuitous sex scene at the very end… and an explosion. Because sometimes… somtimes a little cinder girl needs to get … Continue reading
Jim Henson’s death was the first – and probably the only – celebrity death that kicked me in the stomach. I’d grown up with Sesame Street, the The Muppet Show, and the Muppet Movie. I adored The Dark Crystal and … Continue reading
Westerns are not exactly my favorite genre so maybe my skepticism affected how I thought about this flick. But any movie in any genre as plodding and monotonous and unmoored from a conventional understanding of story progression would be a … Continue reading
I think I was supposed to open a review of Die Hart 2 by saying, “well, at least its better than the cobbled together first one”. Except, yeah, I didn’t think so. I found this a worse film… easily one … Continue reading