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
The Silent Girl is a movie about quiet little moments, a thoughtful, sweet, sometimes sad little number that doesn’t have great ambitions. It just wants to be human and humane and humble. It’s about a quiet Irish girl who is … Continue reading
A faith-based film that doesn’t have problems because of a low budget, amateur direction, cheap production values, disingenuous argument, or a misplaced persecution complex? No, this is a well-produced film that suffers from the usual problems a lot of films … Continue reading
I get what EO was doing with its languorous, chaotic, random, and uneventful vignettes. A donkey-eye view of whatever random things happen around it that largely just represent little human stories and ways in which humans treat animals. The flick … Continue reading
Personally, I’m more of a Charlotte. More of a Jane Eyre than a Wuthering Heights… but that’s neither here nor there in this tale of Emily Bronte and how she eventually got around to writing Wuthering Heights. I probably should … Continue reading
When You Finish Saving the World is about a deluded but mediocre teen who wants to make music for his online followers. It’s also about his mom who helps run a woman’s shelter but can’t connect with her son. The … Continue reading
The Strays is about a posh suburban English woman whose comfortable life starts to unravel when people from her past show up. She’s a light-skinned black woman married to a white man, they have two children… the newcomers are darker … Continue reading
Sharper is a new drama/thriller on Apple TV+. It stars Justice Smith, newcomer Brianna Middleton, Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, and John Lithgow as a variety of rich people and scammers in a complex, twisty, non-linear film about confidence men. And … Continue reading