Flora and Son
Flora and Son is one of those warm hug movies that you let envelope and flow through you, leaving you with a music high and a love for art. It’s in the very familiar pocket of John Carney who keeps … Continue reading
Flora and Son is one of those warm hug movies that you let envelope and flow through you, leaving you with a music high and a love for art. It’s in the very familiar pocket of John Carney who keeps … Continue reading
El Conde (The Count) is a rather abnormal vampire film… I’d hesitate to even call it horror since it’s so matter-of-fact about its monsters. It’s directed by Pablo LarraĆn who also directed Jackie (about Jackie Kennedy) and Spencer (about Princess … Continue reading
Even if Amazon’s A Million Miles Away isn’t in the pantheon of great grounded space flight movies, I’m still a sucker for what it does. I love realistic films about space travel… Apollo 13, The Right Stuff, Gravity, The Martian, … Continue reading
Sitting in Bars with Cake is an unusual title for a movie with a mildly familiar premise. It starts unique though… two besties bake cake and take them to bars to meet guys. But one of them gets cancer and … Continue reading
I went blind into this latest Liam Neeson flick, just knowing it was yet another in a long line of his action flicks. But at least it was gracious enough not to communicate its mediocrity by opening in January. The … Continue reading
Batman vs TMNT is what happens when a million zillion ninjas of the Foot Clan descend on Gotham. Batman joins forces with the turtles to fight Shredder and Ra’s Al Ghul’s fiendish plot… which has something to do with the … Continue reading
Aliens Abducted My Parents (and Now I feel Kinda Left Out) sure feels like the clickbait version of a movie title. Makes you think you’ll be watching a wackier, more satirical movie than what you actually get. And I’d be … Continue reading
Back in the dark ages of the 1990s, I fell in love with the science fiction show Babylon 5. If you can forgive the budgetary restraints, it was one of the best tv shows on the air due to its … Continue reading
Jules is an odd duck of a movie. In some ways, it’s kind of adjacent to a Wes Anderson movie… but not as artsy (you’d never confuse a single frame of it with anything Anderson shoots). It is similar in … Continue reading
I didn’t have a lot of faith (har) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter and certainly its first twenty minutes had me slumped in my seat… but the movie surprisingly pulls through to deliver a movie with real… bite … Continue reading