Sep
07
1992
1992 is two, two, two movies in one… and they don’t play well together. It wants to be a serious film about surviving the Rodney King riots in LA 1992… while also being a heist film. Too bad it’s more … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Mid 70s
Aug
31
Afraid
On the one hand, Afraid is just another smart home automation AI paranoia film that borrows a little too much from Her and Megan. On the other hand, I kind of liked how it ended even if getting there was … Continue reading
Aug
30
Deliverance, The
Netflix presents Lee Daniel’s Deliverance… or The Deliverance if you are doing the bare minimum to not remind people of squealing like a pig. I get it, I get it… a lot of people don’t know Deliverance and it’s not … Continue reading
Aug
26
Hostile Dimensions
Hostile Dimensions is a tiny tiny little found footage sci-fi/horror (comedy?) about a couple of documentarians researching a missing woman. According to her own found footage, she stepped through a mysterious door into an alternate dimension. The film makers find … Continue reading
Aug
21
King Tide, The
The King Tide is a good idea for a half hour Twilight Zone episode or a short film… but in its current form, its slow burn aesthetic is a little undercooked for the amount of story they have. It’s about … Continue reading
Aug
19
Skincare
I enjoyed the setup for this film so much when I didn’t know what it was about. Honestly, I assumed it’d be a body horror film about a skincare compound that causes human meltdowns. In that it’s not that at … Continue reading
Aug
18
Duchess
I didn’t rent Duchess for the promise of a great action/crime/revenge film… I rented it because Neil Marshall directed it. He’s hardly my favorite director of genre films, but his ambition has been pretty good over the years. Good enough … Continue reading
Aug
03
Harold and the Purple Crayon
As a child, I wasn’t a fan of Harold and the Purple Crayon. I was a stan for The Monster at the End of This Book. Those scaredy-cat “Crayolas” had to have a magic crayon for their imagination. “Book Monsters” … Continue reading
Jul
27
Last Breath, The
The Last Breath starts out well with a pretty good depiction of a WW2 German sub torpedoing an American warship. It’s not great but, by the low standards of shark attack movies, it’s outstanding. Then a shark appears for .5 … Continue reading
Jul
24
Bad Newz
Bad Newz is an Indian rom-com released theatrically in the US. I went in knowing only that it was a comedy… and a workplace comedy at that (it wasn’t, actually). Instead it takes a full hour plus to get to … Continue reading