I didn’t follow the true-life rescue story from 2018 that this doc covers. I remember it happening but also remember it just being another news story about people lost in a cave, in a mine, or down a well. I … Continue reading
Purple Hearts is as earnest a romantic flick as you can get. No sarcasm, no wise-acreing, just a straight up romance on the rocky side. It has a few issues but I liked the actors and found them annoyingly sweet … Continue reading
American Carnage opens with a title scene that you’ll either see as biting satire, the goddamn truth, or lies and slander. I suspect what you think of it will color your opinion of the film (and if you are hard-core … Continue reading
The Gray Man doesn’t start strong and I was all settled into a really mediocre and annoyingly long sit… and then it wormed its way into me until I realized, no, I was actually having fun with this nonsense. And … Continue reading
Where the Crawdads Sing is based on a book I’d forgotten about and certainly hadn’t read. So I went in pretty blind, figuring it might be a swamp-based adventure… having not put any thought into whether or not a crawdad … Continue reading
I wasn’t excited to start The Sea Beast… it looked like another generic Netflix animation. But I was wrong. As soon as the flick starts, it prevents some absolutely stunning visuals. A kid struggling to get onto a piece of … Continue reading
The last time I saw Naomi Watts on screen, she was suffering through a blizzard on top of a mountain in Infinite Storm. Now I get to watch her jog miles on a hurt leg while emotionally suffering over the … Continue reading
Well, Elvis is certainly a Baz Luhrmann movie for all the hopped-up-on-energy-drinks, camera never stops, editing is King of Rock ‘n Roll kind of way. Luhrmann is a hyper-kinetic rabbity thing who never saw an editing deck he didn’t want … Continue reading
There’s a moment near the end of Cha Cha Real Smooth where the heart of this sweet coming-of-age movie grows three sizes in emotional maturity. A young man, not quite fully emotionally mature, facing a romantic and personal crisis, has … Continue reading
I was quite pleased by the latest gentle reboot of Father of the Bride (premiering on HBO Max). This version is a more subdued comedy than the broader Steve Martin film (and I haven’t seen the original Spencer Tracy film … Continue reading