The logline for this film on a rental streaming service promised Nazi Werewolves so I watched it hoping for a mashup of Dog Soldiers and Overlord. But don’t you believe their lies (at least Letterboxd’s description is honest). This is … Continue reading
Rented this one hoping for some gold old fashioned craft-iness mixed with sorority secret society scares. I guess it’s got a tiny bit of those things but mainly its got no budget and no particularly artistic eye with the budget … Continue reading
Three Thousand Years of Longing has a lot of interesting and fascinating ideas but it really isn’t about those ideas. Instead, it’s more about a handful of short stories circulating about a relationship that isn’t half as interesting as those … Continue reading
Funny Page is not a movie I enjoyed watching, but it is a movie that’s darn good at what it’s doing. And what it’s doing is showing us an underbelly of America full of strange, grimy people living their lives … Continue reading
Sadly, Breaking really didn’t work for me over the long haul. It clearly has its heart in the right place and tries very hard, but I think either it’s pacing, structure, or devotion to reality got in the way and … Continue reading
Technically, The Invitation is a little hard to talk about without spoilers… the movie’s structure is obviously hiding something. But the trailers already spoil everything… so thanks advertising department. So I’ll go ahead and spoil it too, I guess (starting … Continue reading
I’m beginning to think, to paraphrase a fantasy show, that when Kevin Hart releases a movie, the gods flip a coin. Gettin’ pretty annoyed at unfunny Kevin Hart comedies. And this is yet another one… and the gods of Hollywood … Continue reading
Samaritan is an Amazon Prime original film starring Sylvester Stallone. I didn’t have high expectations and had, in fact, heard it dismissed as Stallone’s version of Hancock (i.e. a superhero flick about a washed-up superhero). And certainly the early review … Continue reading
That’s Amor is a new Netflix romantic comedy about a recently single (and unemployed) woman who takes a cooking class and catches the idea of the Spanish cooking instructor. That’s kind of literally it. There isn’t a gimmick, nobody is … Continue reading
WifeLike is a flick that starts out like a teenager’s sex fantasy complete with all the boobs and butts you could leer at. And then it struggles to become something more, treading in overly familiar ground, reminding me of After … Continue reading