Sex Appeal is a Hulu original film about an overachieving high school girl who is a master at STEM, but a novice at love and sex. Her long-distance boyfriend says he’s DTF (literally) when they meet at the next STEM … Continue reading
The House uses fur and cloth-based stop-motion animation to tell three independent stories set in a house. That might not be thrilling by the sound of it, but it’s a pretty fascinating and sometimes fascinatingly weird presentation. The first story … Continue reading
You know, I swear I thought the third Hotel Transylvania was decent… I didn’t care much for the firs two but maybe I’d turned a corner and started to admire the goofy comedy. But this fourth film makes me think … Continue reading
Paul Thomas Anderson in shaggy loose mode is an off and on prospect for me. Licorice Pizza roams where it wants to… it lopes and ambles and just hangs. It’s got a similar structure as The Master but I hated … Continue reading
I modestly enjoyed the first Sing movie… it was your basic underdog achievement movie. It was cute and sold itself well on great animation and a huge amount of licensed pop tunes. I could say all the same for the … Continue reading
I did NOT laugh fairly often at this scathing, brutal faux-documentary about the 2021 that we all know and hate. Hosted by an interesting list of actors playing fake talking heads, it takes a brutal, direct, and perhaps one-sided assault … Continue reading
Don’t Look Up isn’t a particularly good comedy and it isn’t a particularly well-focused social satire, but it is a decent disaster movie. Unfortunately, it wants to be all three of these things but a broken script gets in the … Continue reading
Princess Switch 3 – the 2021 Christmas present from this dumb franchise – decides it doesn’t want to be a wacky romantic comedy OR a dumb con-woman flick. No, now it has delusions of being a heist film. Someone has … Continue reading
Silent Night is one of the bleakest, darkest, grimmest dramas I’ve ever seen… that start out as a light frivolous Christmas comedy. I liked the funny first act, loved the grim third act, and then hated hated hated the final … Continue reading
Not a big fan of this movie but I ultimately found its Christmas spirit charming, even if getting to it was pretty cringe. And when I reflect on the type of movie it is, I know it’s just the twentieth … Continue reading