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
Family Switch is the Human Centipede 2 of body swap movies. Instead of a daughter and mother switching, we get a total of three swaps within one family… it’s a body swap movie only with more body swapping than usual. … Continue reading
Well, that’s what I get for cutting the cord and going all digital for my entertainment. Haven’t watched SNL in a few years and then I just now find out these dorks snuck up and produced some funny digital shorts … Continue reading
Pencils vs. Pixels is a pretty surface level look at the history of traditional 2d hand-drawn animation and the rise of CGI/3D. It doesn’t take too much of a adversarial tone (given the “vs” in the title) but it does … Continue reading
Freelance is a pretty decent action/comedy starring John Cena’s enormous face as a married guy who probably listens to Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads a LOT. He wants more from life so when a surprise Christian Slater asks … Continue reading
Vindicta is a bit of an obscure horror/slasher film on <checks notes> Paramount+. It seems like it’d be a terrible direct-to-streaming movie and, indeed, it has its budgetary and script limitations, but I was pleasantly surprised by how good it … Continue reading