The Unbreakable Boy makes it hard to be on its side. It has a likable kid actor who does everything he can to annoy the audience in the same way he annoys his dad. So good job there. It also … Continue reading
Ke Huy Quan’s return to the big screen is a real gift, especially if you were alive in 1984 & 1985 for his kid double feature. So I hope it’s his choice to follow Everything Everywhere with a basic kung-fu … Continue reading
Haven’t we seen this exact movie before… like a dozen times in the past five years? Mom and dad, husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend are secret spies for the FBI, surprising their significant other or children or whoever needs … Continue reading
Ever watched one of those “I just don’t get it” movies? This is certainly one of them. I mean, I get the premise… but not quite the approach. It’s about a rich family and a few servants living out the … Continue reading
Carnage for Christmas is one of three Alice Maio Mackay low budget horror flicks to hit Shudder this December. This is her fifth (rather short) full length movie… and she’s 19. So even if the budget is vanishingly small and … Continue reading
Absolution is yet another film in the category of “these actors from my youth are now old enough to play geezers with dementia and I’m not happy about it”. Between this one (Liam Neeson), Knox Goes Away (Michael Keaton), and … Continue reading
Another one of these… and I keep doing it to myself. Sigh. But if even one of these Christmas flops is good, then I haven’t wasted ALL of my free time. But this wasn’t quite it. So this time a … Continue reading
Dear Santa would get bonus points if it had the guts to actually give itself the title it deserves… and post that all over Paramount+, social media, and the internet as a whole. But it doesn’t and it doesn’t even … Continue reading
Levels is a big idea / low budget sci-fi film that plays in familiar sandboxes while trying to elevate them with high-falutin’ tech philosophy. And that’s a sentence that says nothing about a plot that’s hard to synopsize without spoiling. … Continue reading
The Shadow Strays is the kind of mindless, repetitive action film that can fill the screen with so many clashing swords and yet leave me deeply, deeply bored. But that’s largely a me thing… action junkies will probably love it. It’s … Continue reading