I renewed Paramount+ for this? Well… I guess I can cancel and spend the next 30 days catching up on Star Trek: Lower Decks…. As a guy who loved Stephen King’s original novel and who also likes both film adaptations, … Continue reading
Totally Killer is a pretty fun mashup of multiple genres and multiple familiar movies… many of which it references directly. It’s a slasher comedy first but a pretty good time travel movie too. The flick stars Kiernan Shipka as a … Continue reading
The Exorcist: Believer is definitely a sequel to The Exorcist, but it may or may not be a sequel to the rest of the franchise. Since it’s a Blumhouse production directed by David Gordon Green, it could go either way. … Continue reading
I skipped this documentary back in 2019… not because of its gay text, but because I saw Nightmare on Elm Street 2 once on video back in 1985 and hated it. Not because I, as a clueless teen, saw some … Continue reading
Nowhere is another survival film… or maybe unlikely predicament film. I’m not sure if there’s an actual name for the sub-genre of these survival in unlikely circumstances movies. I think I’ll call them Predicament Films until I hear otherwise. Anyhoo, … Continue reading
Starry Eyes is a Hollywood navel gazing horror/thriller that starts well, stumbles, and falls off a cliff. And yet I can totally understand why some people would love it… but it just got too fixated on staring at itself in … Continue reading
The fourth and final (for now) Wes Anderson short has a pretty cool premise but only a decent overall flow. It’s about a man who has a small venomous snake asleep on his stomach… and he’s been lying prone and … Continue reading
In analyzing this latest Netflix rom-com, I asked myself “Good cliché or bad cliché” and then “Good generic or bad generic”. And then I got introspective… “was I feeling like a chump or a cynic?” But I think the most … Continue reading
The Rat Catcher is the third in this weird short file experiment from Wes Anderson, also based on a Roald Dahl short story. This one happily sits in the middle ground between the very good Wonderful Tale of Henry Sugar … Continue reading
For Spooky Season 2023, I decided to partake in a 31 days of Halloween challenge on Letterboxd. It started a couple weeks early to allow people to survive that many films. There were certain criteria to meet and these were … Continue reading