Dropping dead center among all the Oscar Bait films is a comedy that isn’t exactly playing in that league. I suspect it will not be the talk of the town come Awards Season… but it’s still an amusing little comedy … Continue reading
Rosaline is what you get when you borrow the concept of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and move it from the dour tragedy of Hamlet to the bird-brained hyper-romantic Romeo & Juliet. Out with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s erudite philosophizing when … Continue reading
Armageddon Time is about a young Jewish boy living in 1980 New York in which we navigates his family, his friends, and his school. He makes friends with a young black boy in his class and he learns lessons about … Continue reading
While watching Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, I asked myself who this movie was made for. And I immediately answered: Me. It was made for me. And every thirteen year old who rocked out to Eat It at the roller … Continue reading
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 edition) is one of the best anti war movies based on one of the best anti war books. It’s a grueling slog in the way World War I warfare was a grueling slog. … Continue reading
Interest in saying anything about this blandly below average Netflix technothriller is quite low. When they put so little effort into their ’90s internet paranoia throwback thriller, I barely want to lift a handful of fingers to half-heartedly rip into … Continue reading
To me, Tar is a fascinating case of sitting in a theater, admiring a performance, but wondering what the heck this movie is even about. I guess it’s about a human life but I’m not sure what else. I was … Continue reading
I think I spent every minute of this movie wondering why it was made, why I was watching it, and whether the obvious point it was making was really meant to be so obvious. And yet, I was entertained… I … Continue reading
The Lair was another fairly blind rental… but I was immediately intrigued when Neil Marshall’s name came up in the opening credits. Dog Soldiers, The Descent, and even the uneven Doomsday… plus the last thing I saw him make was … Continue reading
Yoda was right when he said blind video rentals lead to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leaders to suffering. Couldn’t say it any better, my green man. They Crawl Below was a blind rental, just enough hint at hopefully … Continue reading