Hell is a tween girl, I guess? Or, better yet, Hello God, It’s Me Zafreen (and my demon buddy). I mean, beware the girl in class who gets her period first… she’s probably possesed by SATAN! Tiger Stripes is about … Continue reading
Rez Ball opens with a first act so powerful I guess the only way to go was down. And while it’s a perfectly good sportsball movie, it never rises above that into a great one. But it’s good… a perfectly … Continue reading
Megalopolis is what you get when you mix Ayn Rand with Richard Kelly with <gulp> Neil Breen. A glorious “what were you even thinking” mash of ideas all twirled into a long tasty string of taffy that bends in the … Continue reading
Here After is a morose, ponderous sink into gloomy filmmaking that thinks its profound and original but is neither. It’s about a mother with a teenage daughter who dies for twenty minutes and then miraculously recovers. But is who comes … Continue reading
Omni Loop starts with a wacky idea about why a time loop is happening and then proceeds to be a too somber, mundane take on this genre. I’m not sure why it does a bait and switch, but it’s a … Continue reading
Robot Dreams is set in an alternate 1980s New York… you can tell it’s an alternate timeline because they have robots… and “they” are anthropomorphized animals. Presumably talking animals but the film only has a handful of spare words (plus … Continue reading
I rented this Chinese flick because it sounded like an inspiration story of self-improvement… and as I sat there on my Velcro seat, that was something I wanted to see. I also figured odds of it being a cringe-fest were … Continue reading
I had little interest in seeing this film… but the more I heard it was a blatantly right-wing worship festival, the more ghoulishly curious I became. Would it be that blatant? Would it be that bad a movie? Well, it … Continue reading
Uwe Boll?!!? Didn’t he retire a few years ago? But he’s back and not directing another video game adaptation. I watched First Shift out of morbid curiosity: had the auteur of classics like BloodRayne and Alone in the Dark found … Continue reading
There’s absolutely no reason for me to find this meditative Japanese film so compelling… and yet I do. It disobeys most rules of drama and simply chooses to let nothing happen of dramatic merit for almost the entire runtime. And … Continue reading