Just repeat after yourself “This is not a sequel to the original Wonder Woman movie” and maybe you’ll be able to more quickly get into this movie or forgive its inconsistencies. Because Wonder Woman 84 is very much more of … Continue reading
The War with Grandpa is a decent, occasionally funny, and often surprisingly sweet film. With one major problem… it’s general premise. Kind of a big problem in an otherwise decent little movie. Robert DeNiro plays a grandpa who has to … Continue reading
I’d prepped for the movie Mank by rewatching Citizen Kane, having not seen it since college. But it took me a few tries to get into this new film on Netflix… but it is a David Fincher movie and I’ve … Continue reading
Dance movies are not exactly in my wheelhouse; you tell me it’s good dancin’, I’ll take your word. So not sure why I randomly picked out this Netflix offering… but not really regretting having done so. Work It is about … Continue reading
The new Small Town Film Noire movie Girl is a mean little film starring Bella Thorne, a young lady who is getting a lot of work lately. About all I knew going in was that she stars and it’s some … Continue reading
Host is a Shudder Original that has just popped up on iTunes rental so I gave it a shot. To be clear, Host is not The Host, The Host, or Hosts. Nor is it Unfriended, Searching, Friend Request, Dark Web, … Continue reading
Hillbilly Elegy, based on a person’s actual memoir, is trying to say something profound about desperate, poor white folk in Kentucky and Southern Ohio… but it never really figures out what. There’s reference and asides about boarded up main streets … Continue reading
Unknown Origins is an amusing collision of the serial killer movie Seven and <pick your comic book origin story here>. It’s about a straight-laced detective in Madrid, Spain who is on the trail of a serial killer who uses superhero … Continue reading
Unhinged is a film that should probably just have been called Road Rage: The Message. Or perhaps, “Unhinged: You know, the bad guy kind of had a point there at the start of this… too bad he killed those people … Continue reading
An early George Romero film AND a non-zombie Romero film, I was curious to see where he’d go without being bound to the genre he created. To put it mildly, this is one 70s-ass 70s movie. Full of casual 70s … Continue reading