Grafted is a solid first half of a mean girls horror film until it takes a left turn into territory that, conceptually makes sense, but doesn’t really work in other ways. It’s disappointing since I loved the first half as … Continue reading
“Mel Gibson?!” is what I said when his directing credit popped at the end of the film. I hadn’t seen the trailer to have his ‘from the director of” credit show (without naming names) so I was surprised. The flick … Continue reading
George A. Romero’s Resident Evil is a documentary about George Romero, Resident Evil, and the failed attempt for him to adapt the video game into a movie. If all that sounds like gibberish, this might not be your favorite film. … Continue reading
Y’know, with a title like Nightbitch, I was expecting something a lot more hardcore. And, yeah, I knew the basic premise so I also expected themes of motherhood and depression. Instead I got a movie that was shouting those brilliant … Continue reading
I kind of enjoyed this movie… until I didn’t. I kind of cynically understood whatit was saying… until I didn’t. I don’t think a movie could self-destruct so gloriously in its final act… until it did. A Different Man is … Continue reading
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