I had a fair amount of confidence this would be a pretty bad movie… but the premise had me curious enough to pull the trigger. Could they make a movie about skydiving into a supernatural horror movie? What would that … Continue reading
Banshees of Inisherin is a sneaky little movie that sidled up on me and said BOO at just the right moment to open up my appreciation. I was more-or-less on the movie’s side in a gentle, despondent, isolated kind of … Continue reading
Causeway proves my whole theory: Jennifer Lawrence is an excellent actor. Of course, we all kind of know it, especially if you saw her earlier films like Winter’s Bone. But she’s pulls off great work in her bigger pictures like … Continue reading
I started watching this one fully expecting to hate it given the aggressively downward trajectory of the franchise. And at first I was as sneeringly dismissive as I was with the terrible third flick. But then… you know… this movie … Continue reading
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