Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is adapted from one of the short stories in Stephen King’s book If It Bleeds. It’s a strange choice but, also, probably the most filmable story in that book. It feels like they poured through the book … Continue reading
Speak No Evil is a frustrating film in the (fictional?) subgenre of… I dunno? Politeness horror? The kind of movie where good people get in trouble with seemingly normal (yet crazy) people because they are too ingrained with the societal … Continue reading
Athena is a Netflix film that gets an A+ for filmmaking effort even if it just gets a B for character drama. I wish it had nailed every aspect because, wow, this is an amazing movie on a technical level. … Continue reading
Somehow – probably through voodoo – Billy Eichner and the gang made an accessible mainstream gay romantic comedy that is also super duper out-of-the-closet gay. I don’t know how they got the mixture right… but I didn’t come away thinking … Continue reading
The Greatest Beer Run Ever tells the apparently true story (details leave me dubious) about a local neighborhood fella who has friends fighting (and dying) in Vietnam. It’s 1967 and the antiwar movement is dividing families so he decides to … Continue reading
Started Halloween madness a couple weeks early so here’s a roll-up up classics as of November 30 (plus a few odds and ends from earlier in the year). 1896 – A Nightmare – Well, at one minute long, you can’t … Continue reading
I suspect this will not be the popular opinion, but I enjoyed this sequel a tad more than the original. I just rewatched the first one as someone who saw it back in the 90s but had no nostalgia for … Continue reading
Smile is a mash-up of at least a half dozen other horror movies you’ve already seen. And it sadly seems to think it invented the genre all by itself. What else can explain the ridiculous almost two hour runtime when … Continue reading
Having just watched the original Austrian Goodnight Mommy, I went into the American remake hoping it was better than the ratings suggest. And what I got was a defanged, sanitized, and far more mainstream version of the same plot… but … Continue reading
If the purpose of a biopic is to tell an understandable, possibly relatable, version of a famous person’s life so you come away understanding that person better, then Blonde is an abject failure. But if you come to see a … Continue reading