Nowhere is another survival film… or maybe unlikely predicament film. I’m not sure if there’s an actual name for the sub-genre of these survival in unlikely circumstances movies. I think I’ll call them Predicament Films until I hear otherwise. Anyhoo, … Continue reading
The Rat Catcher is the third in this weird short file experiment from Wes Anderson, also based on a Roald Dahl short story. This one happily sits in the middle ground between the very good Wonderful Tale of Henry Sugar … Continue reading
When the Justice League mysterious vanishes and a flaming phantom stalks the Hall of Justice, Jimmy Olson calls in a favor. The Scooby Gang travels to Metropolis to help solve the crime… if they can evade the rampaging supervillains. Yes, … Continue reading
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