I wasn’t a huge fan of the original Bad Guys film when it came out, but everyone else was so I figured I’d give this holiday special a whirl. Which was my first mistake. The second was hum-drumming my way … Continue reading
It’s never a good sign when you wave your hands angrily at the tv screen and demand to know why a movie is still going. And that’s exactly what I did… on multiple occasions… while watching this Christmas flick. Candy … Continue reading
The Shift if a faith-based sci-fi multiverse movie and that’s not a combination of words that usually go together. But this flick is indeed equal parts big idea sci-fi and Christian messaging… though, even then, it’s more about being a … Continue reading
May December is about a sleazy tabloid topic that’s too smart and too subtle to be about what it’s about. On the one hand, it’s quiet and introspective and then it delivers a soundtrack that suggests its 200% more melodramatic … Continue reading
I desperately wanted to love this movie since I loved its setup and premise: what if Freddy Krueger was a boring college professor who does nothing in your dreams? And it was cooler because I had just a did a … Continue reading
I’m not an expert on all the eras of Godzilla, but it feels to me like Godzilla Minus One is unique among the films I’ve seen. Godzilla originated with, and sometimes returns to, the idea of Japan’s national trauma from … Continue reading
Family Switch is the Human Centipede 2 of body swap movies. Instead of a daughter and mother switching, we get a total of three swaps within one family… it’s a body swap movie only with more body swapping than usual. … Continue reading
Satanic Hispanics is an anthology horror film that’s a little uneven and yet ends so spectacularly, it’s worth watching just to get to its final ten minutes. Like many anthologies, it has a wrap-around/frame story and then its selection of … Continue reading
If You Were the Last is a sci-fi rom-com that people seem to like… as someone who doesn’t understand hu-mans, I’m at a bit of a loss. I didn’t think much of this film or its two leads… I didn’t … Continue reading
57 Seconds is a wholly unremarkable but fairly watchable sci-fi time loop thriller. It stars Josh Hutcherson (with an assist from Morgan Freeman who wanders in and out of the movie) as a blogger on the tail of a crooked … Continue reading