Well, here’s another one I think I’m obligated to hate but didn’t. Miller’s Girl is a southern gothic starring a mismatched pair of actors who don’t get to slink as much as they do. I hope they had a good … Continue reading
Welcome Home, Franklin is the first Peanuts short dedicated to Franklin. Which is new to the animated features but (I’ve recently learn) not at all new for the comic strip. A number of the details and scenarios of Franklin’s origin … Continue reading
Suncoast is about a teen girl and her mom dealing with their dying brother/son in Florida in the early 2000s. The daughter is over dealing with her vegetative brother and her mom is running on emotional empty dealing with both … Continue reading
For cynical (yet nonsensical) reasons, I was sure I was gonna give this Lucy Hale rom-com a fairly low score. Despite the fact I willingly rented the damn thing and like Lucy Hale. So I was at war with myself … Continue reading
So you want to be a climate refugee and you live in England? Here’s your chance to roam the countryside in despair, wondering how everything fell apart so quickly (and damply). Yeah, this is a serious sunny side down film. … Continue reading
When I heard there was an Indian Top Gun at the local theater, I figured I’d hop into my car and take the side roads to the danger zone. Fighter is an Indian action/war film about top guns, hot shots, … Continue reading
The super group song We Are The World sure was something back in 1984… and my instant kneejerk to this new Netflix documentary was “Why?” They had done a “making of” back in 1984 so who cares? Well, it took … Continue reading
As an unconventional way to start a review, I remember watching the first episode of the tv show This Is Us back in 2016. I was on the fence if I should bother… the show hadn’t become a phenomenon yet … Continue reading
The original Mean Girls is hardly a movie I have word-for-word lodged in my brain. I enjoyed it certainly, especially on my rewatch last year. It’s also one of those movies where I kneejerk object to a remake… yeah… it’s … Continue reading
I sat on Candy Land all last year… thinking, yeah, maybe it’s a bit of sleazy fun but it also came out in 2022 and I want to watch 2023 films (or some such goony logic). But it’s 2024 now … Continue reading