Gone in the Night is a thriller suspense mystery with very few thrills, very little suspense, and a mystery that the lead character has very little interest in solving. Resulting in a movie that is hard to recommend but maybe … Continue reading
Moloch is a Shudder original Dutch horror film that isn’t so much a slow burn as it just takes a long time to get to the point. But, once it does, it’s suitably creepy and almost makes an argument for … Continue reading
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between (which has an Oxford Comma, Letterboxd… just sayin’) is a teen romance featuring two pretty bland teens who fall in like over the summer before college. She’s not so much into long-term, he’s very … Continue reading
Asking For It is about a young lady who oops accidentally falls in with a crew of radical militant feminists out to take revenge on predatory masculinity, frat boys, and human traffickers. It’s a film that never really commits to … Continue reading
Netflix presents: a movie dumb as a box of rocks. A script full of hammy cheesetastic corny lines of buff studmuffin dialog. And maybe a little bit of just-go-with-it fun… at least for awhile. And then you just want them … Continue reading
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