Carjackers is a Prime Video film that certainly exists but let this review be my only record of having seen it since I’ll have forgotten it in a couple weeks. It has a good premise… the average workers at a … Continue reading
Holland is set in Holland. No, not <i>that</i> Holland. Holland, Michigan? Yes and no… that’s the setting of the movie, but it’s really the gimmick they glued onto the film to give it colorful flavor. Yes, tulips and a giant … Continue reading
I thought I was going to rate this Tyler Perry flick pretty well in its first half hour. It sets up interesting characters and scenario where someone is murdered. I saw the murder mystery / conspiracy structure setup and I … Continue reading
Striving for the position of “Anti-Fun Curmudgeon of the Year”, here’s my entry. I hate Looney Tunes, apparently… or I hated this modern endless diversion of madcap tomfoolery that didn’t make me laugh once. Because I had my fun-o-meter surgically … Continue reading
Control Freak is a film padded out from a short film (which I haven’t seen). It feels like a lot of wheel spinning and time wasting in order to get to whatever point the short got to. I found it … Continue reading
Oh boy… In the Lost Lands is twenty pounds of nonsense crammed into a ten pound sack. It’s overflowing with credulity-challenging plot, goofy dialog, and so much slow-mo that both Zack Snyder AND Michael Bay are sitting in a corner … Continue reading
The sick, sad thing is Love Forever is not actually that bad a Swedish Netflix movie… it’s just bland, boring, predictable, and not even funny. Like, I’m not sure it’s a comedy kind of romantic comedy. And yet the genre … Continue reading
Dhoom Dhaam is an Indian Netflix action comedy romance… and it doesn’t do any of these genres particularly well. In fact, it starts with such cartoony comedy that bounced off my cynical armor that it took the film an entire … Continue reading
Things Will Be Different is a bit promising but ultimately a rough watch. It has a casual acceptance of big trippy sci-fi ideas that are mired in a desperately low-fi sci-fi environment. It’s about a brother and sister on the … Continue reading
Rolled the dice on The Fix due to a pretty interesting sounding synopsis. The air has grown toxic and millions will die without their gas masks or a novel chemical being distributed by an evil corporation. A model takes a … Continue reading