Gosh… when a movie misses, it can miss hard. I absolutely did not connect with anything in this movie except for maybe one minute of screen-time. Wish I’d seen the movie everyone else is talking about… and maybe you should … Continue reading
Reality is almost a more fascinating experiment in filmmaking as it a taut and suspenseful drama. But happily it’s both. I’ve never seen anything quite like it except maybe in a documentary that uses too many reenactments. But this is … Continue reading
I spent the first half of this movie pretty sure I was bored… and then second half slowly realizing I was totally bought in. I can’t pinpoint when the switchover happened, but it certainly happened and I was left bemused. … Continue reading
I knew almost nothing about this movie going in… I figured it was going to be just another war in the Middle East flick. But when I realized that was Gerard Butler under that beard, I quickly re-oriented my thinking. … Continue reading
Took me some time to get around to this movie. It’s one of those “trapped in a place” pictures that makes you wonder how they’re going to fill an hour and forty minutes with this premise. But I think it … Continue reading
Unlike most “business bio” movies like the Nike, Tetris, and Facebook ones, BlackBerry is not the story of success. Sure, it’s the story of early success but BlackBerry ultimately went away. Apple ate their lunch. And since I never owned … Continue reading
The Mother is relentlessly dour flick that exists in two parts. One part is an uninteresting action thriller and the other is a slightly more interesting mother/daughter bonding story. The two halves fight with one another and the end result … Continue reading
The flick is labeled as a Rom-Com but I’d categorize it as a romance… or just a drama. Mainly because the “rom-com”ness of it is so hazily written that it could – and should have been – ejected from the … Continue reading
Despite my high rating, I’m a little mixed on Return to Seoul. I think how much I like it depends on how much I can get into the main character’s head… and often that’s a pretty inscrutable place. I ultimately … Continue reading
Chevalier starts strong but makes a mistake I doubt they could have predicted. They tell us this story is taking place in pre-revolution France and when the movie bogs down bitterly in its second half, I sat there stewing in … Continue reading