I found this film moving and pleasant and sad/melancholy. I wish I liked it more but it’s certainly a nice bit of genre bending and a timely story. Rose is a Filipino-American teenager who lives in Texas and loves old … Continue reading
Minari is a quiet and confident film that wasn’t what I assumed it was going to be about. With a premise like a Korean immigrant family moving to rural Arkansas, I just assumed Hollywood was going to turn out a … Continue reading
Cherry is a new move on Apple TV+. It’s the (mostly?) true story of a down-on-his-luck guy who joins the military and rotates back home with PTSD and a drug addition. And there were two very bad things that happened … Continue reading
I honestly wanted to like Sentinelle. Not for its core plot which has been done many… many… many (many) times before… but because the movie wanted to turn that plot into something more grounded, more serious. But just because you … Continue reading
As a guy who’s many decades past the sell-by date of this movie’s target audience, all I can say is that I rather loved this film. It reminded me of my high school fight-the-power movies like Pump up the Volume … Continue reading
Nomadland is a unique special film that’s about nothing less than life, death, time, and existence. It’s a tone poem full of small vignettes, only lightly connected, about what it is to live a particular type of life. It’s a … Continue reading
I Care a Lot is a whip-smart, crackling, mean little movie about awful people doing awful things. It has a protagonist but it doesn’t have a hero, a good person, or any morals but bad ones. It’s so good that … Continue reading
Judas and the Black Messiah is a drama based on true events but also a solid, energetic crime drama along the lines of The Departed. It’s nice to get a work of historical fact that plays like a serious suspense … Continue reading
Malcolm & Marie is one of those Small Group of People Talk About Philosophical/Cultural/Personal Things For The Entire Movie movies. These can be great… and they can fail. This one – which focuses on arguments and discussions about a couple’s … Continue reading
The Dig is about a wealthy woman who hires an excavator to dig up the ancient burial mounds on her property in the days leading up to World War 2. And… yeah, I’m sure this is a smart, thoughtful, dreadfully … Continue reading