I got home from the theater after seeing Beau is Afraid hours ago and I just didn’t want to sit down to write a review. Even with the RT scores showing a mixed critical and audience reception, a lot of … Continue reading
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a film about a group of young activists who gather together to rescue puppies and kittens… Ummm… hang on… <flips through notes> Oops… It’s about a bunch of young activists who gather together … Continue reading
Despite the fact I find the world of snooty celebrity chefs and haute cuisine tiresome, the sub-genre of drama/thriller that follows a perfectionist chef or a restaurant crew is fascinating to me. It’s the joy of seeing excellence working at … Continue reading
Well, it’s amateur hour at the Amazon Prime studios and I’m sharpening my knife here. Yes, for the price of an hour and forty of your life and a Prime account, you too can watch one of the worst films … Continue reading
Chupa is a perfectly serviceable and mildly enjoyable family film about a kid who returns to Mexico to visit his cousins and his grandfather. And how he befriends a mythical chupacabra and has to keep it (and probably ET, The … Continue reading
I care not a wit for basketball, Michael Jordan, Nike, or sneaker sales so it was up to everyone in front of the camera and behind the scenes to make me care about these topics… and they succeeded. Air is, … Continue reading
Unlike the eye-rolling that I experienced when I heard they were making a Tetris movie, they didn’t wind up making a fictional story about geometric shapes who live and learn and love. No, this film is about the international licensing … Continue reading
This film is listed as a documentary on the rental service I watched it on, but don’t be fooled. It’s about the guy who convinced NYC to overturn its 30 years ban on pinball machines in the mid ’70s and … Continue reading
Here we have the unexpected sequel to the unexpected remake of an adaptation of a series of Christian novels about the biblical Rapture. The 2014 remake scrounged enough coins from between the cracks in the sofa to hire a solid … Continue reading
This flick is a weak puff of air, it might as well not exist given what little impact it had on me. It’s a piffle comedy with surprisingly dramatic (and dark) moments… grim moments that struggled to the surface and … Continue reading