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
What a wild disappointment. I enjoyed the original Enchanted quite a bit and this sequel, while well-cast and with some good ideas, falls flat in so many ways. The film reunites us with Giselle, former fairy tale princess (Amy Adams) … Continue reading
She Said tells the true story of how the New York Times investigated and ran an article about human garbage Harvey Weinstein. It follows the lead reporters as they try to interview woman after frightened woman about their experiences working … Continue reading
Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds doing Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? You know this ain’t gonna be a straight adaptation and it most certainly isn’t. There are so many Christmas Carol adaptations that this film turns it into a cottage industry. … Continue reading