A third Hercule Poirot murder mystery from Kenneth Branaugh? I guess it’s officially a franchise now. The title sounds like the latest Z grade horror movie… perhaps a sequel to The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia? Turns out … Continue reading
King on Screen is a documentary about Stephen King film adaptations. I’ve read a lot of King and seen most of the adaptations so I hit play thinking I already knew everything a doc could tell me. And I wasn’t … Continue reading
Belle is an English language horror-tinged remake of Beauty and the Beast filmed in Iceland. You know the drill… a man was cursed to be a beast, a magic rose, a girl who sacrifices herself for her papa, and eventually … Continue reading
I watched The Dive earlier today only to find out it’s a remake of this Swedish film. Normally I’d say, “Silly Americans always remaking movies…” but The Dive was a German film (in English)… so I guess we can blame … Continue reading
I’m hardly current on the state of modern Peanuts (or “Snoopy Presents”) specials but I decided to give this Apple TV+ special a shot. It’s forty-five minutes devoted to Marcie who I’m going to assume has never gotten a star … Continue reading
So it’s perfectly ok that this sweet little comedy didn’t make me laugh very much… because I smiled instead. Yeah, this isn’t a laugh riot but it’s so earnest and sweet, I found my middle-of-the-road three stars start to seem … Continue reading
This was my second attempt to see this flick in the theaters. The first time, my lousy theater had the bulb brightness turned down so I could barely see the black actor’s faces in the opening scene (and a movie … Continue reading
When this flick was in theaters, it was the B choice that I just never got around to. I laughed with a guy in concessions that, whatever I was seeing today, at least it wasn’t Mafia Mamma. I have no … Continue reading
The Boogeyman doesn’t make a strong case for itself in the originality department. A child being harassed by the beast under your bed, in your closet, in your head? You don’t say. There have been so many movies like this… … Continue reading
Watching Polite Society made me feel how my parents probably feel when I make them watch a Marvel movie. They enjoy the flick but they are inherently watching a different movie than me. Or it’s like what I felt like … Continue reading