Grieve was on my Watchlist due to a recommendation from a friend. I figured I’d add it and get around to it eventually. But then it (sadly) met the Watchlist challenge criteria of least popular film on my list. But, … Continue reading
Sadly, Upgraded is not the sequel to Leigh Whannell’s 2018 sci-fi film Upgrade… but is instead a mashup of standard rom-com tropes with a spiritual successor to The Devil Wears Prada (not a single cyborg implant in sight!). It stars … Continue reading
Badland Hunters is a new Korean Netflix action/sci-fi flick that promises one thing and delivers another. It’s all pulpy post-apocalyptic shlock though… and reasonably good time, I suppose. The film is set in a South Korea (or possibly world) ravaged … Continue reading
Self Reliance is such a weird idea for such a light comedy. I spent the whole movie saying “yeah, this is amusing… but what? Why?” It’s like the chuckle-funny version of David Fincher’s The Game. Jake Johnson plays some average … Continue reading
Destroy all Neighbors is a very silly – maybe too silly – Shudder original horror/comedy. It’s wacky and goofy and maybe a little try-hard… like you can see the gears spinning to crate a kind of throwback cult film. I … Continue reading
I admit I rented Roadkill because it was a chance to get in on another early 2024 release. But also because it has the plot of an updated version of The Hitcher… a young woman on a road trip picks … Continue reading
“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the pool… it’s Death Pool: The Pool that Eats”. Or, you know, just good ‘ol Night Swim (a movie about a death pool). Not since Unbreakable and Lethal Weapon … Continue reading
If not for a surprisingly romantic scene in the middle of this movie, I’d have slapped a lower rating on this review. But that moment in sight of the Sydney Opera House and the character driven moments while hanging in … Continue reading
My level of interest in a movie about rowing crew was vanishingly small… but this one is set around the 1936 Olympics so I figured it was the wetter version of the Jessie Owens story. And close enough… at least … Continue reading
Aporia is a Hulu low budget sci-fi time manipulation film that muddles its way through low ambition scenario in a dour yet sometimes lovely way. Judy Grier plays a wife and mother who loses her husband only to discover a … Continue reading