The God’s Not Dead franchise is an easy one to hate… but I like to give each film a chance. And sometimes that means ignoring its self-righteous, delusional take on American Christianity. The franchise tends to believes in the persecution … Continue reading
I gave Dirty Angels a shot for two reasons: it’s directed by Martin Campbell and stars Eva Green. But it otherwise sounded like a generic war thriller, maybe a little inspired by The Dirty Dozen (since: dirty) only starring a … Continue reading
Weekend in Taipei is a perfectly ok one of these. An ok to enjoyable fairly generic action flick with a decent one-on-many fight, a pretty good car chase, and maybe a little too much family drama. Given I expected very … Continue reading
Gary is a documentary about former star child Gary Coleman. I watched his sitcom DIff’rent Strokes back in the day and I guess you could say I had a certain affinity for him just because we were around the same … Continue reading
Heavier Trip is apparently the triumphant return of a fake metal band from Finland named Impaled Rektum (of course). I say apparently because I didn’t realize it was a sequel to 2018’s Heavy Trip until half way through the movie. … Continue reading
Wicked is the first half of the stage musical that I haven’t seen nor have I read the book its based on or listened to the soundtrack. It’s a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, telling the tale of how … Continue reading
Spellbound is a weird one. By the way the Netflix app on my tv introduced it as a boot-up splash screen – nearly full screen with a play button – I guess they think they are onto something big. Or … Continue reading
Magpie is a infidelity thriller that succeeds by creating a husband and wife with very particular personality traits and cranking up the tension. It works fairly well even as it delivers more pointed glances than actual dramatic moments. It stars … Continue reading
When Netflix calls a movie a “fever dream” in its description, go ahead and believe it. This flick is weirdly unmoored from reality except when it’s not… and except when it is. Early on I uttered “what in hell is … Continue reading
Heretic is a tough one for me to review. It’s basically someone’s philosophical screed shaped awkwardly into a horror movie… and I like horror movies and I like philosophical movies. But this film did it poorly… but in that it … Continue reading