Pure liquified joy extracted and painted on the cinema screen. I watched this film with an airy smile… not a grin, not with belly laughs, but with a gentle smile. So much fun and full of life. Not perfect, if … Continue reading
As a guy who’s many decades past the sell-by date of this movie’s target audience, all I can say is that I rather loved this film. It reminded me of my high school fight-the-power movies like Pump up the Volume … Continue reading
Malcolm & Marie is one of those Small Group of People Talk About Philosophical/Cultural/Personal Things For The Entire Movie movies. These can be great… and they can fail. This one – which focuses on arguments and discussions about a couple’s … Continue reading
Pieces of a Woman is a pretty great depressing, despondent movie that’s the feel sad movie of January. And it’s well worth the watch if you want to see some good acting and writing. The film is about a tragic … Continue reading
I gave Spontaneous a watch almost at random. I saw it on Amazon Prime (rental), read the synopsis, and said, “well, there’s nothing else attracting my eye right now” and gave it a shot. And I’m so glad I did. … Continue reading
Checked out a horror flick that came out on Netflix a few months ago called The Platform. I’d heard good and bad things about the movie so, between that and that it’s a Spanish-language film, I put off giving it … Continue reading
Rented the 2019 film Portrait of a Lady on Fire the other day on iTunes (it’s also streaming on Hulu). This movie got on a ton of best of the year lists (but was shut out of the Academy Award … Continue reading
The new Invisible Man movie was released this weekend so I gave it a look. This is more-or-less a new movie in the stable of the Universal Monsters, a theoretical-but-not-really remake or reboot of the series. And possibly-but-not-really the latest … Continue reading
So the first January movie of 2020 is your typical toss-it-into-theaters-and-run low expectation horror movie The Grudge. This is (surprisingly) a sequel to the 2014 Sarah Michelle Gellar remake of the Japanese film Ju-On. And everyone is writing it off… … Continue reading
With great interest, I went to see the new movie Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler. Note I didn’t say “new Adam Sandler” movie since that would imply a dopey comedy, probably set in some impossibly beautiful location, and co-starring a … Continue reading