Incoming isn’t the best teen comedy I’ve ever seen and is actually overly-familiar in its characters and plotlines. But I bet it could be a formative, iconic film to just the right teenager looking for a modern teen comedy. Get … Continue reading
When I first saw there was going to be a Watchmen animated adaptation, it looked so similar to the Zack Snyder film, I couldn’t figure out why they’d bother. But that impression was wrong as this film more closely follows … Continue reading
Deer Camp ’86 is a prime example of how taking a gamble on a nothing movie can actually work… sometimes. Not often. But in this case, I gave it a shot basically just because it’s set in Michigan where I … Continue reading
Young Woman and the Sea is a bit of a split narrative, one that I liked a lot more than the other but, combined, make for an entertaining sports and kicking against the patriarchy narrative. It’s the true story of … Continue reading
The Inheritance is a horror movie that surprised me. Not because it’s amazing, but because it’s better than expected, especially after the first act’s kind of lugubrious pace. So I’m giving it a bump for the jump… it earns an … Continue reading
About all I knew about this film is that it was the most expensive Indian film ever produced… and, after watching it, that’s still about all I know. Which isn’t to say it doesn’t have a plot that I followed… … Continue reading
June Squibb plays a senior citizen who gets taken for $10,000 by phone scammers pretending to be her dimwit grandson. Once she remembers where she wrote down their address, she sets out on a quest to get money back. In … Continue reading
As a white boy growing up in the 70s and 80s, I was aware there was a Black Barbie but I never owned a Barbie, much less a Black Barbie. Now that I’ve seen the doc, I think I was … Continue reading
Exhuma is an interesting take on a ghost story from South Korea. It involves shamanistic practices that I’m highly unfamiliar with… enough so that I’m not even sure if they are based on actual Korean beliefs or just made up … Continue reading
Pretty telling about the quality of shark movies as a whole when this pretty good Netflix one hits my top 5. It’s not that great a film so much as the flotsam and jetsam of this terrible sub-genre is populated … Continue reading