My Old Ass is a romance. A romance with comedy and a little magical realism… but it’s not a romantic comedy nor is it fantasy/sci-fi. It has elements of those things but mainly its a sweet and earnest straight-up romance … Continue reading
When it comes thrillers and horror, I’m usually the guy who says dumb characters are ok since, if they were smart, we wouldn’t have a movie. But Out Comes the Wolves proves that I have my limits. The flick is … Continue reading
I was all set to give Rebel Ridge a superlative star rating within its first hour but as soon as the flick went from defense to offense, it fell hard. I was so disappointed in the final act from a … Continue reading
1992 is two, two, two movies in one… and they don’t play well together. It wants to be a serious film about surviving the Rodney King riots in LA 1992… while also being a heist film. Too bad it’s more … Continue reading
The Front Room is an insufferable grind from a writer grinding his axe in a way that’s gonna make Thanksgiving dinner awkward. It’s clearly a case of working through family issues and making me pay for it. No thanks. It’s … Continue reading
In that Beetlejuice Beetlejuice works at all is a goddamn miracle of direction. It’s so bloated with plots, subplots, characters, side characters, cameos, villains, and new ideas that I’m still not sure if they resolved everything. The plot synopsis? Where … Continue reading
I had little interest in seeing this film… but the more I heard it was a blatantly right-wing worship festival, the more ghoulishly curious I became. Would it be that blatant? Would it be that bad a movie? Well, it … Continue reading
The only thing I knew about City of Dreams was that it was an immigrant story. The person who said that was sugar-coating it because, yeah, its an immigrant story in the same way Grave of the Fireflies is about … Continue reading
Uwe Boll?!!? Didn’t he retire a few years ago? But he’s back and not directing another video game adaptation. I watched First Shift out of morbid curiosity: had the auteur of classics like BloodRayne and Alone in the Dark found … Continue reading
On the one hand, Afraid is just another smart home automation AI paranoia film that borrows a little too much from Her and Megan. On the other hand, I kind of liked how it ended even if getting there was … Continue reading