The Mother is relentlessly dour flick that exists in two parts. One part is an uninteresting action thriller and the other is a slightly more interesting mother/daughter bonding story. The two halves fight with one another and the end result … Continue reading
Love Again is a super generic rom-com which fails at just about everything the genre needs to work. The flick stars Priyanka Chopra (Jonas) and some inanimate carbon rod as a couple of people unlucky in love. His girlfriend (off-screen) … Continue reading
The Tank is a creature feature that has way too much feature and not nearly enough creature. Though if the movie was wall-to-wall creature, I’d have to find a convenient cliff to jump off of. The flick is about a … Continue reading
Chevalier starts strong but makes a mistake I doubt they could have predicted. They tell us this story is taking place in pre-revolution France and when the movie bogs down bitterly in its second half, I sat there stewing in … Continue reading
This DC animated film is a much better idea than it is an actual movie. Mix Batman and his mythology with HP Lovecraft and his cosmic horror. That’s not half bad. But it introduces a mystery that even the mad … Continue reading
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a co-production between Nintendo and Illumination… probably with Nintendo having dictatorial creative control so Hollywood wouldn’t turn out something as off-brand as the 1993 live action Mario Brothers movie. So that means a dedicated, … Continue reading
Unseen is a low budget Blumhouse production about a woman who has been kidnapped and manages to escape but loses her much needed glasses in the process. She she winds up Facetiming a random convenience store clerk and having her … Continue reading
Ugh. The Pale Blue Eye was a job of work to trudge through. An interesting story told in the most uninteresting of ways… a sludge, a cludge. Starkly beautiful to look at but a sucking mire of pacing and revelations. … Continue reading
When is a dog movie not a dog movie? When the dog in the dog movie vanished for 90% of the film, leaving us not following the dog on his harrowing cross-country journey home, but the boring, apparently jobless family … Continue reading
I Wanna Dance with Somebody is probably best watched by Whitney Houston stans. I am not one of them. I like her just fine but never got on the bandwagon. Keep that in mind while I go off on this … Continue reading