All Fun and Games is about a haunted dagger that possesses its victims and makes them play a deadly game of cat and mouse. Or flashlight tag. Why the demon has childhood games as a gimmick, I’m not sure…. though … Continue reading
The Equalizer franchise has its highs and lows for me. I thought the first one was pretty good but I hated, hated, hated the second. So this time around? Closer to the first… but not quite there. After equalizing some … Continue reading
I’m afraid I just didn’t “get” whatever heightened reality they were going for in this film. Something about its bonkers depiction of high school was lost on me… and while I found the movie pretty good, without being able to … Continue reading
Belle is an English language horror-tinged remake of Beauty and the Beast filmed in Iceland. You know the drill… a man was cursed to be a beast, a magic rose, a girl who sacrifices herself for her papa, and eventually … Continue reading
I’m a little perplexed about this abstraction of a flick. It’s set in a grounded future where humanity has distanced itself from nature, therapy is handled by AI, and some people carry their unborn babies in external pods like oversized … Continue reading
I watched The Dive earlier today only to find out it’s a remake of this Swedish film. Normally I’d say, “Silly Americans always remaking movies…” but The Dive was a German film (in English)… so I guess we can blame … Continue reading
The Dive is a perfectly alright “trapped in an unlikely situation” survival thriller. The kind of movie that sticks its protagonists on the top of a tower, in a shark cage, or buried underground. I have anxiety about these films… … Continue reading
Golda is set in Israel during their 1973 Yom Kippur war with Egypt and Syria. This is a conflict for which I had vanishingly little knowledge… which makes a movie about it potentially interesting. The film follows Israeli Prime Minster … Continue reading
I went blind into this latest Liam Neeson flick, just knowing it was yet another in a long line of his action flicks. But at least it was gracious enough not to communicate its mediocrity by opening in January. The … Continue reading
Killer Book Club is a meta slasher with a killer book hook. By which I mean it’s about a killer with a book, not a slasher film that’s particularly killer. It’s a Spanish film on Netflix that tries too hard … Continue reading