I imagine Belfast might work better for folks who lived in Ireland and/or England and/or Northern Ireland during The Troubles than some random American who remembers the news in the 80s and 90s but didn’t really follow it. Or, you … Continue reading
Not being a musical theater guy, I didn’t realize this flick was based on a real play much less a real life. It felt like someone’s personal journey fictionalized to the screen though… and it made sense why Lin-Manuel Miranda … Continue reading
Violet didn’t introduce itself well to me. I see what it was going for but mainly I just felt it starred an inert character. And that’s the name of the game… it’s about a person with crippling self-doubt and I … Continue reading
Passing has such a soft, curious touch that I really dig it even though I was left a little cold at the end. Passing is set in the 1920s and stars Tessa Thompson as a light-skinned black woman who can, … Continue reading
The Harder They Fall is a new Western airing on Netflix this past week. Now, Westerns are not my favorite film genre… I certainly like some and will watch most new ones but something about the genre doesn’t click with … Continue reading
Despite my deep-seated disinterest in the British royal family, I went to see Spencer anyway. I was expecting a traditional biopic (which I might have welcomed if done right) but this wasn’t that at all. It’s just about a few … Continue reading
It took some time for this flick to grow on me. I thought it was a decent post-apocalypse flick that slowly lost me a bit when it became a road-trip movie. But through the sheer power of acting, writing, and … Continue reading
A Mouthful of Air has Amanda Seyfried in a performance that I didn’t expect from her. Not that I’ve ever thought of her as a bad actress, but there’s something raw and dark and alive about her performance here that … Continue reading
I didn’t even know this was coming out when I watched the original Slumber Party Massacre just a little bit ago. When it popped up on iTunes, I decided to watch, hoping for something interesting. Would it be just another … Continue reading
I enjoyed Superhost more than is reasonable. I was sitting there thinking cynical thoughts when I realized I wasn’t entirely sure where this was going. And the villain was deranged in a hilarious yet unpredictable way. And that the two … Continue reading