Plot? PLOT? We don’t need nabu nabu sneaka plowa! Yeah, the Minions are back for more throw-darts-at-a-wall silliness and I went from bored to chuckling so often that I just can’t hate the movie. But I’m really not inclined to … Continue reading
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between (which has an Oxford Comma, Letterboxd… just sayin’) is a teen romance featuring two pretty bland teens who fall in like over the summer before college. She’s not so much into long-term, he’s very … Continue reading
I’m quite mixed on this heady sci-fi drama. On the one hand, it’s what I technically want in smart semi-realistic science fiction: big ideas and brains over blasters. But this film makes a bad ethical argument and does it very, … Continue reading
Asking For It is about a young lady who oops accidentally falls in with a crew of radical militant feminists out to take revenge on predatory masculinity, frat boys, and human traffickers. It’s a film that never really commits to … Continue reading
Alexa and Siri might be evil, ya’ll. Like, they might be planning to take over your house and run your life. So better watch out, better not pout. Sigh. Dark Cloud is a very boring, very uninspired story about a … Continue reading
The last time I saw Naomi Watts on screen, she was suffering through a blizzard on top of a mountain in Infinite Storm. Now I get to watch her jog miles on a hurt leg while emotionally suffering over the … Continue reading
The very idea of Joey King: Action Star is ridiculous to the point you go into this movie expecting a satire. And, indeed, for a few minutes it felt like maybe it’s just that. But that’s not this movie, as … Continue reading
Blasted has an amusing idea for a sci-fi action comedy but none of the execution works. The flick is about a bunch of friends who head to an excluded valley for some paint ball and laser tag fun when they … Continue reading
The description card on streaming services compares this film to The Goonies and Stand By Me. Yeah, don’t you believe that… that’s some marketing hack’s attempt at stealing glory from much better films. Which isn’t to say this is a … Continue reading
Well, Elvis is certainly a Baz Luhrmann movie for all the hopped-up-on-energy-drinks, camera never stops, editing is King of Rock ‘n Roll kind of way. Luhrmann is a hyper-kinetic rabbity thing who never saw an editing deck he didn’t want … Continue reading