Mr. Malcolm is a decent movie of its type… that type being an overly mannered romantic comedy of pointless rich layabouts who talk coyly and slyly while idling in drawing rooms and country manors. You know, a knock-off Jane Austen. … Continue reading
Press Play is a decent, low-stakes romantic time travel story. It’s a low-investment fairly short film that may appeal to the romantic in you and may slightly appeal to sci-fi fans. A little bit. The film is about a girl … Continue reading
Plot? PLOT? We don’t need nabu nabu sneaka plowa! Yeah, the Minions are back for more throw-darts-at-a-wall silliness and I went from bored to chuckling so often that I just can’t hate the movie. But I’m really not inclined to … Continue reading
The description card on streaming services compares this film to The Goonies and Stand By Me. Yeah, don’t you believe that… that’s some marketing hack’s attempt at stealing glory from much better films. Which isn’t to say this is a … Continue reading
If there’s a strictly coherent plot to Mad God, it’s not interesting in explaining it. Which is fair enough – the movie wants more to be a blistering explosion of stop-motion imagery designed to make your skin crawl. Whether that’s … Continue reading
Most of this Toy Story spinoff feels like a generic space adventure that someone, early on in development, glued a Toy Story connection onto in order to get folks to rush out to the the theater. In other words, no … Continue reading
Half a generic, low budget zombie flick, half an actually pretty interesting high school horror/comedy. This movie certainly has its problems but it’s filmed with an energy and gives us an interesting variation on the usual zombie tropes. I admire … Continue reading
Considering I got to the point of referencing any found footage film as “yet another found footage film”, I was a little hesitant to watch this Shudder documentary. And I think I was ultimately right. This doc isn’t terrible but … Continue reading
The thing that’s even creepier and skeevier than the re-enactments in this fairly decent documentary is that it’s produced by Blumhouse. They have the right to make whatever kind of movies they want, but seeing the name of a low … Continue reading
Escape the Field is a mash-up film… an amalgamation of ideas that circulate around a low budget, low effort location. It’s Cube if the cube was a corn field. It’s Escape Room if the room was a corn field. It’s … Continue reading