Watching Infinite Storm, I was thankful of my life choices. There I was, sitting in a recliner with no greater goal that preventing it from flying off into the sky. Eating coconut Keebler cookies that I thought were thin mints … Continue reading
You Are Not My Mother wants to burn slow and make the skin crawl. It does one of those two things… it’s a slow burn. But it didn’t make my skin crawl even though it desperately tried to with its … Continue reading
The premise of this movie – in a CIA black site, a terrorist breaks free and begins to hunt the operatives – got me interested. It sounded maybe like a military slasher film, a reverse Die Hard, or if John … Continue reading
Went blind to a Finnish horror film called Hatching (thought it was Hatchling, but I guess the difference is minimal). Not sure why this rated a theatrical release… but my local theater has about five three-hour-long Bollywood flicks so a … Continue reading
Based on the opening scene, I thought I was going to love this cool, amusing, self-aware animated flick. Alas, I struggled with a lot of it and wound up feeling kind of lukewarm by the end. And that’s despite a … Continue reading
Night Raiders is set in a near-future North America ravaged by a vaguely defined civil war. Our main character is a mother of a pre-teen who lives off the grid. But when the little girl is injured, they head to … Continue reading
Well, I suppose this is the best film in the Fantastic Beasts series… but it does so at the expense of the first two films. And pretty much at the expense of all the wonder and fun of the Harry … Continue reading
When I went to see the movie The Outfit, I thought it was going to be exactly what The Contractor is… a movie about special ops soldiers or spies working for clandestine organizations. The Contractor is, in every way, exactly … Continue reading
Kicking Blood: A Vampire Love Story is a vampire flick that’s not particularly interested in being a vampire flick. Instead, it’d rather – quite flatly – wants to be an exploration of addiction and recovery. And its not terrible at … Continue reading
Madelines is about a married couple working on time travel in their backyard shed. When the wife – Madeline – gets tipsy and decides on human trials, a bug in her code results in one Madeline appearing in their back … Continue reading