An airplane disaster survival movie with sharks? Mash-up those genres and give me something scrappy and fun, please. The odds were not in its favor – and certainly based on user ratings expectations were low – but I was pleasantly … Continue reading
I don’t make a habit of watching gallons of Netflix true crime docs… and yet I find myself reviewing one. It’s pretty good, engrossing, and entertaining but it feels like I just watched an embarassing reality show on network tv. … Continue reading
Orion and the Dark is a decently amusing conceptual animated film available on Paramount+. Conceptual in the same way Inside Out, Soul, Elemental, and Luck were conceptual. Big, abstract, or weird ideas personified. In this case, it’s the concept of … Continue reading
The Beekeeper is a movie that will make those YouTubers who troll scam call centers happy. While they spend their day remoting into scammer’s computers, Jason Statham is out here loaded with gasoline cans ready to burn this mother down. … Continue reading
Rebel Moon is a Netflix/Zack Snyder joint that had people sharpening their knives in anticipation of evisceration. I was looking forward to it though since I love big sci-fi epics and there’s part of me that roots for Zack Snyder’s … Continue reading
Finestkind is a good movie that wants to be great but is hamstrung by some generic desire to be about something other than what it is. It feels like an earnest story of salty New England fishermen that gets hijacked … Continue reading
The Family Plan is Apple TV+’s latest example of an old trope… a happy family discovers the mom or dad (or both) had (or has) a secret life as a super spy action hero. This time it’s Mark Wahlberg which … Continue reading
When Animal gives you a runtime of 3 hours 10 minutes, it means 3 hours 10 ten minutes. Don’t even bother getting up when the credits roll… the flick doesn’t have mid-credits scenes, it has mid-credit storylines. And then it … Continue reading
Eileen is a slow, ponderous film that can’t seem to nail down what it is… until it takes a sudden left turn and becomes very much a different thing. Whether it earns that head-scratcher of a turn, I’m not sure… … Continue reading
Frybread Face and Me is a quiet, gentle, thoughtful film about a Native American kid living in San Diego who is sent to live with his extended family on a reserveation in Arizona for the Summer. It’s not a melodramatic … Continue reading