The Craft: Legacy finally turned from a $20 rental down to a more reasonable post-release streaming rental (6 bucks or so). I didn’t blow the 20 bucks simply because I’m not a devotee of the original film from 1996. It’s … Continue reading
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds is a new Werner Herzog documentary airing on Apple TV+. It is his latest lyrical scientific film, this time about meteorite impacts across the globe and throughout time. In his usual combination of scientific fascination, … Continue reading
New Mutants, the (actual) final X-Men movie in the Fox run of superhero flicks, is finally (FINALLY) available to a wide audience. After numerous delays even before the pandemic and then a gasping-for-air theatrical when screens opened, it’s hit digital … Continue reading
Caught up on The Assistant, a movie I’d heard described as a film where nothing happens. Why that interested me is primarily down to the very positive critic score and very negate viewer score. Not the first time that’s happened … Continue reading
Finally caught up with Audition, a Japanese horror film that may have been over-promised… but I ultimately found that a blessing. I’m not sure I could have handled a full two hour movie like the last twenty minutes of this … Continue reading
His House is certainly an interesting and unique horror film. I’ve never seen anything quite like it while, at the same time, it has tired and overused tropes that almost ruined the film (before course correcting). The film is about … Continue reading
On the Rocks is Sofia Coppola’s latest film and her third with Bill Murray (following Lost in Translation and A Very Murray Christmas). It kind of came out of nowhere, no doubt another victim of Hollywood Covid release trauma. The … Continue reading
Horror Noire is a 2019 documentary about black people in horror movies that premiered on the streaming channel Shudder but is, in October 2020, streaming for free on Amazon Prime (where I saw it). It’s one I’ve wanted to see … Continue reading
It’s October and time for spooky season… or spooky-adjacent season. Vampires vs. the Bronx is a new Netflix horror/comedy… a kind of amalgamation of The Lost Boys and Attack the Block. It’s a decent flick that I think is worth … Continue reading
The unexpected sequel to 2017’s The Babysitter was just released by Netflix… called The Babysitter: Killer Queen. I thought that original horror comedy film was good gorey fun but I couldn’t imagine anyone would need a part 2. That said, … Continue reading