Funny Page is not a movie I enjoyed watching, but it is a movie that’s darn good at what it’s doing. And what it’s doing is showing us an underbelly of America full of strange, grimy people living their lives … Continue reading
Spin Me Round stars Alison Brie as a restauranteur who is invited to a manager’s retreat in Italy. She meets a gaggle of other employees and starts to make friends… and then starts to fall for at least one other … Continue reading
Fall (not Moonfall, Legends of the Fall, Falling Down, or even The Fall) is what happens when Cliffhanger and The Descent have a baby birthed by Buzzfeed Studios and it doesn’t suck. It’s not amazing and it has unfortunate downtime, … Continue reading
I hate, hate, hate Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (The Movie) because it’s not the 100% exact identical thing that I watched as a teenager. How dare they not make the exact same thing all over again so … Continue reading
Wedding Season is largely that same romcom you’ve seen before… but it’s a good one of those and it’s on Netflix. Charming couple, good side characters, and reasonably romantic and moderately funny. The flick is about an Indian-American career woman … Continue reading
Not sure I had any interest in this flick… barely on my radar other than, you know, being at my local theater and a quarrelsome AMC Stubs card in my wallet. I figured it’d have a bit of fun with … Continue reading
The Last Thing Mary Saw is an oppressively stifling suspense/drama with a scattered of horror elements. This is a film that will hold you down, apply pressure on your chest till you gasp for air… or it might just bore … Continue reading
Last Seen Alive is an effective-enough little mid-tier thriller that I figured would be worse than it is. So… it’s a pleasant surprise? Maybe that’s too much praise… it’s a pleasant-enough surprise? That’s more like it. Gerard Butler plays a … Continue reading
Watcher is a very Hitchcockian film that doesn’t quite stand up to its cinematic inspirations. Sometimes it comes close and you can feel what they are striving to be. I wish I liked the whole thing instead of just some … Continue reading
Spiderhead feels like it exists for one purpose: to give Chris Hemsworth a meaty acting gig that proves he’s more than just Thor (or a goofy comedian). And, hey, if that was the goal then they achieved it. This is … Continue reading