I’m afraid to admit that this Netflix flick crashed through my defenses and eventually – eventually – won me over. It’s a bit manipulative (call it drama, call it suspense) but it’s such a winning, good-natured film that I have … Continue reading
Women Talking was a disappointment to me. I was expecting a roaring, fiery, angry indictment. An indignant statement made, a fist in the air… or barring that, a deeper philosophical or intellectual debate. Something more than we got. The film … Continue reading
When Till was in theaters, I had the chance to see it but I wasn’t in the mood for two hours of depression. So I went to see Triangle of Sadness instead… which suggests maybe just how depressing I figured … Continue reading
I started watching Aftersun after getting up super early… too early… I wound up dozing off within the first five minutes, waking up with dream memories that I wasn’t sure were part of the movie or not. I restarted the … Continue reading
When is a dog movie not a dog movie? When the dog in the dog movie vanished for 90% of the film, leaving us not following the dog on his harrowing cross-country journey home, but the boring, apparently jobless family … Continue reading
Laal Singh Chaddha is an Indian remake of Forrest Gump… an official “it’s in the credits” remake with a wall of legalese before the movie even begins (serious pause required to read). This film played in my local (US) theater … Continue reading
In a Man Called Otto, Tom Hanks plays a guy one Gran Torino away from pulling out a shotgun and telling people to get off his lawn. But it’s not that movie… it’s a more sensitive and less gritty film … Continue reading
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is a lovely, thoughtful little animated short on Apple TV+. It is, indeed, about a boy, a horse, a fox and a horse… but not an oxford comma (sorry, grammar humor… … Continue reading
White Noise is a head scratch of a movie. Something that will make you wonder if any of the actors had any idea what was going on during filming. Not that the plot is confusing, more the why of the … Continue reading
Darren Aronofsky is a writer/director I admire. I like his instinct to go big, transcendental, and weird with movies like The Fountain and even Noah (which I didn’t particularly like but found fascinating). But he also give us more down-to-earth … Continue reading