Megalopolis is what you get when you mix Ayn Rand with Richard Kelly with <gulp> Neil Breen. A glorious “what were you even thinking” mash of ideas all twirled into a long tasty string of taffy that bends in the … Continue reading
Given the surprise positive buzz around this flick, I went in expecting the best and I kind of got the worst. I hated the first half of this film… thinking I might have to give it some slack for being … Continue reading
The Killer’s Game is very proud of its hyper-stylized action, though perhaps its reach is beyond its grasp. It’s very proud of its wacky characters but it feels like it’s trying too hard. It’s excited to be funny, but it … Continue reading
In that Beetlejuice Beetlejuice works at all is a goddamn miracle of direction. It’s so bloated with plots, subplots, characters, side characters, cameos, villains, and new ideas that I’m still not sure if they resolved everything. The plot synopsis? Where … Continue reading
Greedy People is a sporadic and uneven crime/thriller/comedy that wants you to think about a Coen Brothers film while you watch it. Not as good as most of their oeuvre, but certainly playing in the same crime comedy ballpark. The … Continue reading
Alien: Romulus is a mash-up of just about every alien movie, though borrowing more from Alien and Aliens (naturally). But they also include some ideas from Prometheus, imagery from Alien 3, and some WTF-even-is-that-it-ness from Alien: Resurrection. It’s just about … Continue reading
Like the main characters of this movie, the film does just enough to get by. It isn’t stellar but its consistently amusing enough. I kept wondering if it would be anything more than it is… and it wasn’t. But that’s … Continue reading
Inside the Mind of a Dog sounds like a companion piece to Inside the Mind of a Cat, also a Netflix documentary about our furry friends. But it’s not… it seems to have an entirely different focus (and Rob Lowe, … Continue reading
#AMFAD is a pretty solid (if a little cringe quirky) slasher horror/comedy. It has a rocky opening but settles down into a watchable flick with an amusing sense of humor, a gallon of blood, and enough characters worth killing to … Continue reading
A Family Affair is a Netflix romantic comedy with a cast that perplexes me. Not because they are bad, but because they don’t fit… and yet it’s a pleasant, fluffy, and reasonably cute rom-com anyway. It shouldn’t work (and I … Continue reading