The Midnight Sky is an ambitious failure of a movie. I really wanted to like it; it’s the kind of movie that’s built for me. A big idea science fiction film that champions humanity and accomplishment in the face of … Continue reading
The Craft: Legacy finally turned from a $20 rental down to a more reasonable post-release streaming rental (6 bucks or so). I didn’t blow the 20 bucks simply because I’m not a devotee of the original film from 1996. It’s … Continue reading
Just what we need… the gritty, morose reboot of both Peter Pan AND Alice in Wonderland. Any such reboot of one of these materials is sometimes too much… but add both characters in and I think I want to watch … Continue reading
I’d prepped for the movie Mank by rewatching Citizen Kane, having not seen it since college. But it took me a few tries to get into this new film on Netflix… but it is a David Fincher movie and I’ve … Continue reading
Songbird is a curious film that could have been renamed “Well, I guess it could have been worse?”. The film was made during lockdown and is no small, web-cam-focused film like Host was. It’s produced by Michael Bay and uses … Continue reading
The new Small Town Film Noire movie Girl is a mean little film starring Bella Thorne, a young lady who is getting a lot of work lately. About all I knew going in was that she stars and it’s some … Continue reading
Hillbilly Elegy, based on a person’s actual memoir, is trying to say something profound about desperate, poor white folk in Kentucky and Southern Ohio… but it never really figures out what. There’s reference and asides about boarded up main streets … Continue reading
I wasn’t expecting anything when I rented Words on Bathroom Walls… all I knew about it was that it was an early post-closing theatrical release and that it starred Charlie Plummer who was just in the last movie I saw … Continue reading
I gave The Secret: Dare to Dream a shot not because I believe in The Secret (to my cynical, cold-dead heart, it’s hooey… maybe even malarkey) but I believe that can be fun… but there’s also a chance that it … Continue reading
Caught up on The Assistant, a movie I’d heard described as a film where nothing happens. Why that interested me is primarily down to the very positive critic score and very negate viewer score. Not the first time that’s happened … Continue reading