OK, so maybe I wasn’t expecting a heartbreaking work of staggering genius when I sat down to watch this film, but I didn’t expect to dislike it. But as I sat there trapped in my movie theater seat, the feeling … Continue reading
Captain Nova is a Netflix film from the Netherlands about a near future where things have gone horribly wrong and a woman has to take her spaceship/time machine back to the past to save it. She crashes and is rescued … Continue reading
The post credit scene in this Netflix original is a microcosm of what’s wrong with this film. It’s Fred Armisen as the movie-with-a-movie’s director wearing a face shield. The joke line is “It’s really hard to direct in this thing.” … Continue reading
You know the feeling… you finish a movie you either hated or loved and then check the reviews and get a sucker punch. What movie was I watching? Hell, what movie were you all watching? Because I didn’t like X … Continue reading
I’m not the biggest Foo Fighters fan but I like their music well enough and I like Dave Grohl’s good guy vibe in general. So I really wanted to like this film… I was rooting for it as a big … Continue reading
A.I. Love You is a Thai language Netflix sci-fi rom-com… and I think it’s safe to say you don’t get too many of those. And it’s half nice to half report it’s half-way a decent but derpy romantic comedy and … Continue reading
Blacklight is a lesser one of Neeson’s gray-in-the-temple Dad action flicks. It’s not as bad as his worse ones though… but only barely manages to bob around beneath the more almost-there mediocre ones. It certainly tries for more story, at … Continue reading
The In Between is a supernatural romance that snuck its way onto Paramount+. When I saw it pop up, I was hoping I’d like it since I can be a romantic fool and I like supernatural jibber jabber, so why … Continue reading
I wonder which we’ll run out of first: devilishly handsome or beautiful unmarried royals of fictional European countries or average American hair dresses, bakers, artists, or schoolteachers who love them? Some day I want the movie about the fictional prince … Continue reading
Zone 414 so desperately wants to be a better movie but fails. I think it was earnestly directed by someone with a decent visual eye but with a script that does no favors. The film is set in a near … Continue reading