I’m pretty lukewarm on the V/H/S found footage franchise… and I found this latest entry a real mess. Like the rest of the series, it’s presented as a beaten up VHS tape on which various short horror stories are told, … Continue reading
The Retirement Plan is about a young couple on the run from a crime boss and his goons. Their daughter winds up in the Cayman Islands where she meets her estranged grandpa as played by Nicolas Cage. The goons follow … Continue reading
All Fun and Games is about a haunted dagger that possesses its victims and makes them play a deadly game of cat and mouse. Or flashlight tag. Why the demon has childhood games as a gimmick, I’m not sure…. though … Continue reading
Killer Book Club is a meta slasher with a killer book hook. By which I mean it’s about a killer with a book, not a slasher film that’s particularly killer. It’s a Spanish film on Netflix that tries too hard … Continue reading
I have no idea who Blue Beetle is as a DC comic book hero. He’s up there with the Guardians of the Galaxy and even Ant-Man as characters I didn’t know until the movie released. So maybe I wasn’t the … Continue reading
I never played HQ Trivia back in the day. I was aware of it. I saw the articles and heard podcasters yammer on about it. But I don’t recall it rising and I don’t recall collapsing… it was there one … Continue reading
The Tutor is a movie that wants to be good but spends so much time thinking a monotone soundtrack and a dark color palette is enough to get it there. It wasn’t… it was barely enough to keep my eyes … Continue reading
About My Father lives at the intersection of Mafia Mamma and The Machine. Take a massive dollop of Italian stereotypes and give the whole movie over to some guy… and sprinkle in a little Robert De Niro to, I dunno, … Continue reading
When is a killer shark movie not a killer shark movie? It’s not when they hide the shark for most of the runtime… there have been killer shark movies that hide their terrible visuals and it’s still a killer shark … Continue reading
The book club is thing you hit me with for going to see Book Club 2. I don’t even remember the original film and had to refer to my 2018 review to confirm, yeah, I saw it and thought it … Continue reading