I have a love/hate relationship with Del Toro movies. I wind up not liking them nearly as much as everyone else. A few I love, more I don’t. So I didn’t go into Nightmare Alley with high expectations. I wasn’t … Continue reading
Silent Night is one of the bleakest, darkest, grimmest dramas I’ve ever seen… that start out as a light frivolous Christmas comedy. I liked the funny first act, loved the grim third act, and then hated hated hated the final … Continue reading
Boiling Point is a movie that <i>almost</i> reaches rarified air but falls just a little short. But it’s still a pretty great movie that’s excels on both a technical and artistic level, even if it doesn’t quite achieve the propulsive … Continue reading
C’mon C’mon is a thoughtful film about human beings. It’s a touching film about familiar relationships and getting along. What it’s like to be a father – or at least an uncle – to a precocious child. A brother to … Continue reading
What is this movie? Is it an allegory for marginalized people or is it a satire of the same? Or just a satire of conversion therapy? And, if so, why does it try to make you laugh or, at the … Continue reading
House of Gucci is a movie I went to reluctantly… and, indeed, bailed on going to for three or four days until boredom drove me to the theater (it happens). I don’t have a fashion sense and, indeed, it may … Continue reading
God’s Not Dead 4… they are still making them and I’m still watching them. I am not the target market for these films but I always try to give them a chance. Are they full of persecution complexes and strawmen … Continue reading
I imagine Belfast might work better for folks who lived in Ireland and/or England and/or Northern Ireland during The Troubles than some random American who remembers the news in the 80s and 90s but didn’t really follow it. Or, you … Continue reading
Cryptic, obscure, impenetrable… I’m not even sure I can talk about this movie in context of what it is, what it’s about, or even what happens. It’s deliberately muddled, murky, and muffled… not something that I think is intended to … Continue reading
Not being a musical theater guy, I didn’t realize this flick was based on a real play much less a real life. It felt like someone’s personal journey fictionalized to the screen though… and it made sense why Lin-Manuel Miranda … Continue reading