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
I saw this film available on streaming rental and all I could tell is that it was an alien invasion flick. A couple weeks pass and I’d hovered over the Rent button a half-dozen times… but then something triggered in … Continue reading
The Seventh Day is a confounding flick. It’s somehow not a good movie but oddly compelling to watch. I wasn’t bored. Yet the movie fails at just about everything it tries to do…. from acting to scares to the world … Continue reading
This movie was a weird rollercoaster (but not in a good way). The first fifteen minutes were in a rush to get to the point and I found the editing off-putting, as though they had read about what horror movies … Continue reading
The Misfits surprised me only once… when the credits rolled, Renny Harlin’s name came up. Yet it didn’t surprise me either… I can believe the flashy attempts at cool would come from a director like him. But also that the … Continue reading
Hmmm… very mixed on this horror movie. On the one hand, it’s a rather dull series of setups and spook moments… nothing you haven’t seen before and all set in a bitchy CW girls’ school. On the other hand, I … 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