Somebody I Used to Know is a romantic comedy that’s better on the romance than it is on the comedy… and it’s only so-so on the romance. I think the problem is the movie has the wrong main character. The … Continue reading
I learned about this movie from its interviews… Anna Kendrick saying she wanted to play a role that didn’t rely on her being adorable. And Anna Kendrick is naturally adorable so I support her choice to go darker, to add … Continue reading
Women Talking was a disappointment to me. I was expecting a roaring, fiery, angry indictment. An indignant statement made, a fist in the air… or barring that, a deeper philosophical or intellectual debate. Something more than we got. The film … Continue reading
I feel like a meanie for not giving this flick at least three stars. It’s so earnest and excitable. But it’s got some slogy bits for a movie that barely hits 80 minutes and its aggressively low budget sometimes gets … Continue reading
On the one hand, The Devil Conspiracy is as bad as a January horror release gets. On the other hand, it’s wildly entertaining in its weird combo of self-seriousness and in-on-the-joke-i-ness. It’s a tough one to review… and I’m giving … Continue reading
Ultraman was a very cheesy imported Japanese 60s tv series that I must have seen in rerun syndication a decade or two later. I didn’t like him as much as Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot (or maybe Flying Robot)… … Continue reading
The Hatchet Wielding (hyphens guys! hyphens!) Hitchhiker is a perfectly ok documentary from Netflix. It’s yet another in a long series of true crime docs, though a little less lurid at first? Maybe? The doc covers a social media kerfuffle … Continue reading
In a Man Called Otto, Tom Hanks plays a guy one Gran Torino away from pulling out a shotgun and telling people to get off his lawn. But it’s not that movie… it’s a more sensitive and less gritty film … Continue reading
I decided to give The Automat documentary a try not because I’m fascinated by automats but because I was fascinated by why anyone would make a documentary about automats. And why Mel Brooks was the face of the marketing. Is … Continue reading
Nanny is a tale of two movies… one a pretty good film about a Senegalese immigrant trying to make her way in the United States, the other a vague hand-waving supernatural film with unsatisfying and random frights. It needed to … Continue reading