My level of interest in an ’80s true story of a family of professional wrestlers was vanishingly small. I have little interest in real pro wrestling and its storylines though I have seen a few good wrestling movies and docs … Continue reading
My level of interest in a movie about rowing crew was vanishingly small… but this one is set around the 1936 Olympics so I figured it was the wetter version of the Jessie Owens story. And close enough… at least … Continue reading
Unfortunately, as an uncultured swine for who the name Leonard Bernstein means very little, my interest in this flick was low. But when you have both Spielberg and Scorsese producing a Bradley Cooper directed and acted film about a musical … Continue reading
Finestkind is a good movie that wants to be great but is hamstrung by some generic desire to be about something other than what it is. It feels like an earnest story of salty New England fishermen that gets hijacked … Continue reading
The Shepherd is a fairly random 35 minute short film on Disney+ produced by Alfonso Cuarón and co-starring a surprise John Travolta. It’s technically a Christmas film but has more the mood of a gentle Twilight Zone or Amazing Stories … Continue reading
When Animal gives you a runtime of 3 hours 10 minutes, it means 3 hours 10 ten minutes. Don’t even bother getting up when the credits roll… the flick doesn’t have mid-credits scenes, it has mid-credit storylines. And then it … Continue reading
Eileen is a slow, ponderous film that can’t seem to nail down what it is… until it takes a sudden left turn and becomes very much a different thing. Whether it earns that head-scratcher of a turn, I’m not sure… … Continue reading
Frybread Face and Me is a quiet, gentle, thoughtful film about a Native American kid living in San Diego who is sent to live with his extended family on a reserveation in Arizona for the Summer. It’s not a melodramatic … Continue reading
May December is about a sleazy tabloid topic that’s too smart and too subtle to be about what it’s about. On the one hand, it’s quiet and introspective and then it delivers a soundtrack that suggests its 200% more melodramatic … Continue reading
Curse this fuzzy little movie, I swore to myself I wouldn’t fall for its manipulative charms. I didn’t know what form they would take, but after Paddington and The Boy, The Horse, The Fox, and the Mole exhibited a certain … Continue reading