Babylon might not be a movie where all of its disparate themes, ideas, and plots come together, but I had a hell of a time just going along for the ride. Such a manic, thoughtful blunderbuss of a film about … Continue reading
How can you tell the difference between Disney’s Pinocchio and Guillermo del Toro’s? Del Toro’s is the one with a surprising number of fascists. And is clearly made by the guy who gave us the twisted fairy tale Pan’s Labyrinth. … Continue reading
I propose we resurrect Charlies Dickens and give him back his copyright so Hollywood can be stopped from retreading this material. At least lets get a gatekeeper up in this IP. Jeesh. Yeah, it’s another Christmas Carol. I’d say this … Continue reading
I still think turning the fanciful art style of the illustrations in the Wimpy Kid books into 3D is a bit of an ugly mess (that baby design is a thing of nightmares). I’ll die on that hill while DIsney+ … Continue reading
Darby and the Dead is, in theory, a fun mashup of a high school comedy and an “I see dead people” supernatural tale. Unfortunately, it barely has any original ideas of its own so the tired high school tropes and … Continue reading
Violent Night is a Christmas action/comedy flick with action that isn’t very good and comedy that isn’t very funny. Santa Claus has had enough of your bullshit. One drunken Christmas Eve, he’s delivering presents to a mansion when it comes … Continue reading
Blood Relatives is a vampire comedy available now on Shudder. You’d think I’d say horror comedy since, you know, vampires and Shudder, but there’s nothing even approaching an attempt at horror in this flick. And that’s intentional and perfectly fine … Continue reading
Mack and Rita is an old fashioned body swap movie that just wants to be loved. Really, really, desperately wants to be loved. Yeah, it tries too hard to be wacky and relatable and winds up feeling anything but. The … 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
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