Don’t Worry Darling is a fine idea for a episode of mystery suspense sci-fi tv show… but it’s stretched to two hours of often uneventful, static storytelling. Cut this back by a good hour or insert more breadcrumbs and they … Continue reading
Do Revenge tells the tale of a Queen Bee on the outs in her high school and the deal she makes with a new student to trade revenge. They will dig their way into each other’s friend group and enact … Continue reading
Sadly, Breaking really didn’t work for me over the long haul. It clearly has its heart in the right place and tries very hard, but I think either it’s pacing, structure, or devotion to reality got in the way and … Continue reading
Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation barely hangs together as a short bit of fuzzy-headed comedy. I was marginally amused at times but most of the jokes were predictable and done before. The flick is marginally about the cast of the … Continue reading
Look Both Ways is a new Netflix film in which the multiverse has a say about the life of a college graduate. When checking the results of a pregnancy test, it’s positive in one ‘verse and negative in the other. … Continue reading
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