Of all the action/spy/comedy hybrids Netflix has burped up over the past few years, I’m surprised The Union wasn’t one of them. Don’t get me wrong, The Union is definitely a Netflix action/spy/comedy… the surprise is that it hasn’t already … Continue reading
Like the main characters of this movie, the film does just enough to get by. It isn’t stellar but its consistently amusing enough. I kept wondering if it would be anything more than it is… and it wasn’t. But that’s … Continue reading
I wasn’t even going to bother with Netflix’s latest SpongeBob movie. I’ve seen two of the films and only a handful of the original series. I was much too old for the show so I have no built up nostalgia. … Continue reading
When I bought my ticket to Kneecap, the ticker seller asked what the movie was. I shrugged and explained what I knew… it was about an Irish musical duo who insist on rapping in Irish. I shrugged and said, “If … Continue reading
As a child, I wasn’t a fan of Harold and the Purple Crayon. I was a stan for The Monster at the End of This Book. Those scaredy-cat “Crayolas” had to have a magic crayon for their imagination. “Book Monsters” … Continue reading
This vampire film is almost impossible to classify… is it a romance? a comedy? A Romantic Comedy? A horror movie? Not really any of those… even with all the vampires. It’s also not as quirky as the title suggests… it’s … Continue reading
Non Negotiable bugs me… not because it’s not much of a comedy and not because it’s only a barely decent thriller, but because it doesn’t have a hyphen in its title. But mainly because it’s not much of a comedy … Continue reading
Deer Camp ’86 is a prime example of how taking a gamble on a nothing movie can actually work… sometimes. Not often. But in this case, I gave it a shot basically just because it’s set in Michigan where I … Continue reading
Under the Boardwalk was an overlooked 2023 animated film that I heard was pretty good. One of these two things was true… it was definitely overlooked. For some inexplicable reason, it’s about hermit crabs living under a Jersey boardwalk and … Continue reading
Dave Bautista didn’t get the memo… all tough guy actors are required by law to make a tough guy/cute kid movie and he and Chloe Coleman got that out of their system with the original My Spy. But the law … Continue reading