My Old Ass is a romance. A romance with comedy and a little magical realism… but it’s not a romantic comedy nor is it fantasy/sci-fi. It has elements of those things but mainly its a sweet and earnest straight-up romance … Continue reading
Blink Twice is a bit of a problem movie. It has a good setup but it slogs down in the middle before delivering a pretty great finale. It’s such a good ending that it blew past my three stars and … Continue reading
I added Just. One. Mile. to my watchlist after podcaster Jeff Cannata gushed about it emotionally on The Filmcast. There it sat for a year until it qualified as the least watched movie in my list. Which is a little … Continue reading
Strange Darling is a curious and somewhat fascinating film that weaponizes our empathy and compassion as movie goers. Much in the same way one of the characters turns those traits on other people in the movie itself. It’s an odd … Continue reading
Yeah… <1950s style computer clicks and whirs> I’m a little unclear on how this flick’s lottery system is supposed to save the economy. Seems like mixing The Lottery with The Purge wouldn’t work as an income generator. But… pshaw, I … Continue reading
Rob Peace is a well-intentioned, good-hearted film about a young black man admitted to Yale while trying to find a way to get his dad out of prison. It’s produced and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor and he does a good … Continue reading
I wasn’t sure what to expect from It Ends With Us as I hadn’t read the book or seen a trailer. I knew it starred Blake Lively and, rumor has it, got a writing punch up from her hubby Ryan … Continue reading
Cuckoo… as the title might imply… is a real head trip. A creepy, bizarre film in the “never trust a health clinic in the middle of nowhere” sub-genre. I was engaged with it… but also skeptical. That is until the … Continue reading
Knives are out for Borderlands… very low critic scores, pretty low (so far) LB ratings, based on a video game, delayed for a long, long time, and a pretty iffy trailer. So color me surprised when I had a blast … Continue reading
This vampire film is almost impossible to classify… is it a romance? a comedy? A Romantic Comedy? A horror movie? Not really any of those… even with all the vampires. It’s also not as quirky as the title suggests… it’s … Continue reading