Oh how I hated this movie. Not because it was a pointless, plodding waste of my time, but because it was playing at a mainstream theater and I spent twelve bucks and ninety minutes of my ever-shortening life on it. … Continue reading
Ugh. The Pale Blue Eye was a job of work to trudge through. An interesting story told in the most uninteresting of ways… a sludge, a cludge. Starkly beautiful to look at but a sucking mire of pacing and revelations. … Continue reading
Not much plot to this slasher film Sick… it’s a Covid film set in 2020 during the initial wave of lockdowns. Two friends shelter in place in a very ritzy house on a lake… only to have a black-clad killer … Continue reading
When is a dog movie not a dog movie? When the dog in the dog movie vanished for 90% of the film, leaving us not following the dog on his harrowing cross-country journey home, but the boring, apparently jobless family … Continue reading
Laal Singh Chaddha is an Indian remake of Forrest Gump… an official “it’s in the credits” remake with a wall of legalese before the movie even begins (serious pause required to read). This film played in my local (US) theater … Continue reading
Ultraman was a very cheesy imported Japanese 60s tv series that I must have seen in rerun syndication a decade or two later. I didn’t like him as much as Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot (or maybe Flying Robot)… … Continue reading
The Hatchet Wielding (hyphens guys! hyphens!) Hitchhiker is a perfectly ok documentary from Netflix. It’s yet another in a long series of true crime docs, though a little less lurid at first? Maybe? The doc covers a social media kerfuffle … Continue reading
I rented this film out of curiosity. The cover shows a female mummy and it’s subtitled Resurrection (which is kind of in a mummy’s job description, right?) so I was genuinely wondering if this was meant to be a mockbuster … Continue reading
On an academic and thriller level, I rather like what Decision to Leave presents. But, for me, it has a central hole that it fails to fill that ultimately left me cold. The film is about a detective investigating the … Continue reading
The Subtle Art is a documentary based on a book that I haven’t read (if it helps, I did read “On Bullshit” which seems to be in the same ballpark as far as marketing goes). It’s basic philosophy is that … Continue reading