Coming 2 America is a movie that started strong but progressively just gets less and less interesting, less and less funny. It’s not a total disaster, but it needed more time in the oven. It also has a core script … Continue reading
As a guy who’s many decades past the sell-by date of this movie’s target audience, all I can say is that I rather loved this film. It reminded me of my high school fight-the-power movies like Pump up the Volume … Continue reading
The new Tom & Jerry movie happens to occasionally star Tom & Jerry… which might be good given that they are characters who can fill five to seven minutes of screen time at most. Chloe Grace Moretz, Michael Pena, and … Continue reading
Flora & Ulysses is a “good enough” family film. It doesn’t seem to have any inspiration to rise above what it is: a basic Disney family-friendly fantasy adventure about a superhero squirrel. And, hey, when you have all the Marvel … Continue reading
I have a vague suspicion that Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar might not be the smartest or most sophisticated comedy in the world. And I have a vague suspicion the movie is exactly what the movie wants … Continue reading
Earwig and the Witch is the least Studio Ghibli Studio Ghibli movies ever produced. It doesn’t have that studio’s sense of fun, imagination, creativity, or charm. It’s a surprisingly boring, uneven mess of a film that I desperately hope is … Continue reading
I could have rented any number of mature, very serious films with intellectual themes and high minds… but instead I rented Psycho Goreman. Not because it looked like the cheapest of sci-fi B movies, but because it starred a couple … Continue reading
Promising Young Woman seems to be one type of movie before slyly becoming another and then another. The log-line of the flick makes it sound like a sordid feminist (or maybe pseudo-feminist) revenge flick that’s all about sick visceral thrills. … Continue reading
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets is exactly the movie I will think about the next time I enjoy a Wes Anderson movie and someone else finds it insufferably twee and self-indulgent. Because this movie is just that: an insufferable … Continue reading
Kajillionaire is a lovely but odd – very odd – little comedy drama about a family of grifters who live not exactly off-the-grid but more off of social norms. They operate out of LA but not within anything approaching normalcy. … Continue reading