C’mon C’mon is a thoughtful film about human beings. It’s a touching film about familiar relationships and getting along. What it’s like to be a father – or at least an uncle – to a precocious child. A brother to … Continue reading
The Beta Test is, at first, a head-scratching title but eventually the twisty narrative navigates to a general explanation. And I guess it’s a warning… though maybe in the “no duh” camp. But that’s not a crime for this otherwise … Continue reading
The only thing I knew about Last Night in Soho was that it was directed by Edgar Wright and it was classified as horror. I went in blind and I was met with something that was aggressively not a horror … Continue reading
I read the novel Dune when I was too young and didn’t get it. Then I saw the David Lynch film and loved it, even though I knew (even at a young age) that it was a mess (to be … Continue reading
There’s a palpable negative mood oozing out of every poor of every frame of this film. Seemingly innocuous conversations are accompanied by a spine-shiver of a musical score to the point that it could make placing a toaster strudel in … Continue reading
I can say with some assurance that I haven’t seen anything quite like this before. And that’s a huge net positive… so very rarely do you ever get to see something new. And I went in knowing only that it … Continue reading
Blue Bayou is an emotionally powerful film with a heart of gold that is really great for 2/3rds of its runtime. There’s very little wrong with this movie… until a muddled, overly-complicated final act. The film is about a Korean … Continue reading
Here’s a refreshing film… an actually scary, mysterious, and thrilling horror movie. It shouldn’t be hard… but apparently it is. And it’s in a sub-genre of horror that contains some of the most trite examples of horror movies, some of … Continue reading
The Suicide Squad is made by the James Gunn you used to think about when you thought about James Gunn. The James Gunn before Guardians of the Galaxy… the James Gunn behind the splatter-ific alien parasites of Slither and the … Continue reading
The most interesting thing about the movie Stillwater is that it spends about 10 minutes of a 2hr 20min movie actually in the town of Stillwater, Oklahoma. But Matt Damon plays a man who so embodies Stillwater that you realize … Continue reading