Space Cadet is a dumb movie and would have served itself better by totally committing to its “Police Academy only NASA” vibe. Instead, it’s a dumb movie that knows its dumb but should have either been 10% smarter or 10% … Continue reading
Take my rating of the fourth Beverly Hills Cop based on its backstory. I was a little too young for the original Beverly Hills Cop but all the older kids talked about it endlessly. I never saw it nor its … Continue reading
It occurs to me that this recent string of veteran actresses (Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Lilly Tomlin, Kathy Bates, etc.) in these screw-around while nothing happens comedies is just the female side of the geezer teaser phenomenon where older actors … Continue reading
Ghostlight crept up on me as I was watching and slapped me in the face with how good it was. It was never bad… but it kind of hid its point and its direction well so once I saw where … Continue reading
June Squibb plays a senior citizen who gets taken for $10,000 by phone scammers pretending to be her dimwit grandson. Once she remembers where she wrote down their address, she sets out on a quest to get money back. In … Continue reading
The Present is a pretty decent family comedy time loop sci-fi comedy… which is not a string of genres usually put together. It’s about a family where the parents are on the verge of divorce so their three kids have … Continue reading
Inside Out 2 is neck-and-neck with the original film… though I give it the edge due to a more emotionally complex story. It follows the same premise as the original but adds depth to Riley’s internal and external personality because … Continue reading
So I did this one to myself… I knew the reputation of Poolman as an ego-driven stinker which actually made me curious. Could it, indeed, be as bad as they say? Yes. Yes it can. Poolman stars Captain Kirk (I … Continue reading
Reading my review of Bad Boys for Life, I was surprised at how nearly everything I said applied to this new movie too. And yet I gave that film 3 stars because there was apparently something in it that worked … Continue reading
Sometimes you just gotta watch Cinderella take her revenge in a low budget borderline slasher film that throws in a gratuitous sex scene at the very end… and an explosion. Because sometimes… somtimes a little cinder girl needs to get … Continue reading