Alpha is a new hunter/gatherer, early man adventure flick in the same family as Quest for Fire, Clan of the Cave Bear, and… ermm… 20,000 BC. This is the tale of a tribe of hunter/gatherers and the first wolf domesticated … Continue reading
Checked out the Netflix Original How It Ends. This is post-apocalyptic road trip if, by post apocalypse, we mean a handful of days after. And by apocalypse, we mean something vague. Something very vague. As if the film makers couldn’t … Continue reading
Hereditary is a new horror film that has gotten a lot of positive buzz from festivals and critics. I saw the movie tonight and I think it’s a lot of overrated hooey for a movie that’s trying too hard and … Continue reading
The first of two movies that came out this weekend for Mother’s Day is a touching tale of a mom who has to save her children from a home invasion / robbery. It’s touching? It’s called Breaking In and it’s … Continue reading
Caught the new movie Acrimony… aka Tyler Perry’s Acrimony… yes, this is a Tyler Perry movie… one of his morality plays, not a comedy and not starring Medea. Whether that makes it better or worse of about the same, I’ll … Continue reading
Checked out the latest (hey I thought he retired) movie from Steven Soderberg… Unsane. This is one of this artsy fartsy director’s weird experimental genre pics… in this case, it’s his take on the old insane asylum movie. You know … Continue reading
The new film The Hurricane Heist is, if nothing else, truth in advertising. It is, indeed, about a heist… during a hurricane. It’s a pretty dumb action film directed by someone who has been making pretty dumb action films for … Continue reading
Went to see the final Fifty Shades film Fifty Shades Freed. The joke running around is that it’s 50 Shades Freed for star Dakota Johnson (and Jamie Dorman). Finally free of the contractual obligation of gratuitous (but not too gratuitous) … Continue reading
The Cloverfield Paradox is the Netflix surprise Super Bowl announcement overnight release which, honestly, is a better story than the movie itself. It was previously called Cloverfield: The God Particle and was going to be a theatrical release but I … Continue reading
Also rented (via iTunes) the, if nothing else, curiously titled My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea. It’s an animated teen comedy/satire set in a high school that, due to an earthquake, has slipped into the ocean and is … Continue reading