Witch Hunt has a clever idea but very low ambitions… or possibly not enough money to carry its ambitions. Not sure which, but what I do know is that it never really lands its ideas and then it mixes in … Continue reading
Forever First Love is a fairly short pure romance film… not a romantic comedy, not a drama with a romance angle, not sci-fi or horror or supernatural. Just a flick about two people meeting and having a bit of a … Continue reading
The Starling is, if nothing else, earnest. It tries so very hard and I believe they mean well. But take that and a shiny nickel and you get a shiny nickel. This is not a very good movie. The flick … Continue reading
Level 16 is a movie about a mysterious school/hospital/prison where girls grow up isolated from the world and its poison air. They are taught not to question authority and to obey every order issued. They believe, when they get old … Continue reading
I really kind of want to rate Sweet Girl just a little higher. It is a painfully generic and bland action movie with a hero with dubious goals who should have Child Protective Services called on him. Until it makes … Continue reading
There are some biopics that end too early and give us text about what happened next, leaving me thinking that that’s the movie I’d have wanted to see. Respect is a movie that goes on and on and on and … Continue reading
Resort to Love is kind of a generic, breezy-headed, low-effort vacation-based romantic comedy. It doesn’t try very hard, it’s filmed in a generic, flat way, and it has little to recommend it. But it isn’t the worst of its kind … Continue reading
It’s the Case of the Vanishing Movie Stars… or the Mystery of the Missing Screentime… or maybe just a lot of bad editing and short shrifted script. This movie is a bit of a mess on a directing and editing … Continue reading
Time to play our favorite M. Night Shyamalan game: Which Night are we gonna get? The one with assured direction, thoughtful dialog, and inventive stories? Or the one with tin-eared dialog, inexplicably bad acting, and a ham-fisted story? I mean… … Continue reading
Sex, drugs, and (carefully manufactured) rock ‘n roll at a 70s summer camp is what Fear Street part 2 wants to be all about. And, to be fair, it has a decent amount of sex (at least for a modern … Continue reading