My love/mostly hate war with Michael Bay continues… though at least we have settled on a little cease fire. I didn’t hate Ambulance… though Mr. Bay made concerted efforts to make me do so. Just not a fan of his … Continue reading
A young teen wants to discover himself through music? Yeah, I just watched Better Nate Than Ever… and Metal Lords. Pretty wide gulf between the musical stylings though… but not so wide in terms of following your dreams storylines. Though … Continue reading
Alice is a film with a very similar premise to the 2020 film Antebellum but Alice takes the earlier film’s concept further. Indeed, it takes the more interesting route. Where Antebellum ends and I asked the question “OK… now what?”, … Continue reading
Master is about the lives of a handful of black women on a traditionally all-white prestigious university. The ladies not only have to deal with subtle microaggressions but also some pretty big macro ones too. Oh, and there’s a witch … Continue reading
Unpopular take and also a moment of self-reflection for my apparent monstrosity. Flee is a tragic life story but not one told very well. Yeah, I know… how wrong a take can a guy have? The documentary / animated film … Continue reading
Lucy and Desi, the documentary, managed to do what I thought was missing in the Aaron Sorkin film Being the Ricardos: actually tell me more about these two Hollywood icons. The Ricardos movie kind of covered things that I, not … Continue reading
I didn’t know much about this film going in… just that it has great ratings, a lot of people seem to be watching it, and that’s it’s a French comedy. But something got lost in expectations… it’s not French, for … Continue reading
Other than the genre, I went blind into this movie. And I was enjoying Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan’s flirtatious romance so much that I hoped a yeti would step out of an alley and attack. I didn’t want the … Continue reading
Despite the fact I liked just about everyone in the cast of this flick, I watched it with little enthusiasm and few laughs. In fact, the only time I ever thought, “hey, that worked” was in the last thirty seconds. … Continue reading
I suspect I’m supposed to do my due diligence as a serious-minded movie watcher and say I loved this movie. But I didn’t. And I’m kind of annoyed I didn’t. I’ve seen a number of “school shooting” or “kids deal … Continue reading