Poor Things is one of the stranger movies I’ve seen this year. It’s weird in that way only Yorgos Lanthimos can be weird… chucking aside any sense of box office and decorum or expectations and just doing whatever is rattling … Continue reading
Cat Person opens with a quote from Margaret Atwood “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It’s a thesis statement that this film plays with in interesting ways… made more … Continue reading
The Shepherd is a fairly random 35 minute short film on Disney+ produced by Alfonso Cuarón and co-starring a surprise John Travolta. It’s technically a Christmas film but has more the mood of a gentle Twilight Zone or Amazing Stories … Continue reading
As a Star Wars fan who never actually watched the Star Wars Holiday Special until last year, I was very curious about this documentary. And it did a good job explaining a lot about how this one-time-only tv variety show … Continue reading
Satanic Hispanics is an anthology horror film that’s a little uneven and yet ends so spectacularly, it’s worth watching just to get to its final ten minutes. Like many anthologies, it has a wrap-around/frame story and then its selection of … Continue reading
Curse this fuzzy little movie, I swore to myself I wouldn’t fall for its manipulative charms. I didn’t know what form they would take, but after Paddington and The Boy, The Horse, The Fox, and the Mole exhibited a certain … Continue reading
For as many movies as I watch, I’m shockingly ignorant of what’s actually being released ever since I stopped watching trailers and accidentally reading spoilers on news sites. So I went into Thanksgiving knowing it was a holiday-themed slasher and … Continue reading
Radical is a very familiar story told well. You’ve probably seen it before… a teacher from the outside arrives at a struggling school and helps the downtrodden, uninspired kids. This concerns the old guard, the corrupt, and the parents but … Continue reading
I’m such a sucker for Marvel films… and I’m not even a comic book fan. Just something about their whimsical nature – when they aren’t being universe ending – that appeals to me. The Marvels is a mashup of three … Continue reading
I loved Arnold Schwarzenegger films in the ’80s. He was my guy for big dumb action films. I was less into Sylvester Stallone… First Blood was great but the later Rambo sequels were not the big, dumb action flicks for … Continue reading