The Burial stars Tommy Lee Jones as the owner of a small chain of funeral homes. When he tries to sell some of them to a behemoth funeral corporation, they try to screw him and he sues. He hires showy … Continue reading
Despite its length and despite my mind coming up with alternative takes or judicious edits to the existing content, I was never bored by Martin Scorsese’s inexplicably long Killers of the Flower Moon. But don’t get me wrong, this is … Continue reading
After one too many horrorshows this spooky season, I put on this Netflix movie to give myself some downtime. And it turned out to be every bit a horrorshow as anything on Shudder… only I can’t tell who the real … Continue reading
When I posted my rewatch review of Psycho, I banged on about Roger Ebert’s old adage that movies are machines for empathy. Never has that been more true than in The Royal Hotel… a movie that feels aimless and had … Continue reading
Dumb Money is an aspirational and maybe delusional bit of rabble rousing that covers the Gamestop stock pump that (temporarily) freaked out the Masters of the Universe in the stock market a couple years ago. It’s a fictional account with … Continue reading
Past Lives is a marvelous, wistful, and thoughtfully romantic film that’s easily going in my top ten of the year. I thought it was about immigrants returning to their homeland and finding out they no longer fit in with the … Continue reading
Even if Amazon’s A Million Miles Away isn’t in the pantheon of great grounded space flight movies, I’m still a sucker for what it does. I love realistic films about space travel… Apollo 13, The Right Stuff, Gravity, The Martian, … Continue reading
The Adults is a movie that shares some somber, moody, and dethatched DNA with Charlie Theron’s much better Young Adult. Here we have a movie whose title is half true (the “the” is accurate). It’s about three siblings who have … Continue reading
Sitting in Bars with Cake is an unusual title for a movie with a mildly familiar premise. It starts unique though… two besties bake cake and take them to bars to meet guys. But one of them gets cancer and … Continue reading
I’m a little perplexed about this abstraction of a flick. It’s set in a grounded future where humanity has distanced itself from nature, therapy is handled by AI, and some people carry their unborn babies in external pods like oversized … Continue reading