Something in the Dirt is by the same pair of nerds who brought us the cryptic The Endless and the somewhat-less-cryptic Synchronic. It’s another lo-fi sci-fi from this pair of knuckleheads designed to make you ponder reality while probably not … Continue reading
Good Night Oppy is a documentary about the two Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. It exists on the borderline between hard science and fluffy science communication. It’s a flick that my jaded, hard science loving brain was enjoying but also … Continue reading
Bones and All is a lovely, tender, heart-felt romance between two cannibals. It’s also a bit of a horror story… but not because the two lovers are cannibals, but because there’s a less (ahem) savory cannibal lurking about. Yes, this … Continue reading
To screw up a metaphor, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special melted my Grinch heart. I was just telling a friend I really don’t watch Christmas movies on a loop. I’ll watch ’em and the schmaltz might make me … Continue reading
Manifest West is a film in the subgenre of families who move off the grid. Better movies in this category include Captain Fantastic and Leave No Trace. Watch both of them first, maybe shop around a bit, and then circle … Continue reading
Presented as a Netflix series, these four 30-40 minute episodes play more like a padded movie than anything else. It tells the story of a young man in 1995 who noticed a goofy Pepsi commercial was promising an actual Harrier … Continue reading
Strange World is an alright film. It’s got a sci-fi/adventure feel to it which is fun on the surface. It looks amazing. And it has a plot that’s… alright. Plus it’s chock-a-block full of family drama llama (to its detriment). … Continue reading
The struggle was real. The struggle, in this case, was to enjoy this very rocky, wildly uneven, tonally chaotic, and weirdly overacted Amazon Prime comedy. Because sometimes it was perfectly sweet and funny and more of the time it was … Continue reading
I know Little Nemo in Slumberland is a comic strip and movie adaptations but that’s about it. Previous to this new movie, the closest I ever got to the franchise was an obscure NES game that I never even played. … Continue reading
The Wonder is, at first, a very strange title for such a grim, austere, borderline brutal looking and feeling film. It’s a film that slowly feasts on your soul and belief in human kindness. It’s a cruel, frustrating film that … Continue reading