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
Here’s a spooky horror flick that came out of nowhere (or, you know, Netflix). It was only ninety minutes and I figured it might be bad, it’d probably be generic, but it wouldn’t take too long to watch. So I … Continue reading
The Burial stars Tommy Lee Jones as the owner of a small chain of funeral homes. When he tries to sell some of them to a behemoth funeral corporation, they try to screw him and he sues. He hires showy … Continue reading
Despite its length and despite my mind coming up with alternative takes or judicious edits to the existing content, I was never bored by Martin Scorsese’s inexplicably long Killers of the Flower Moon. But don’t get me wrong, this is … Continue reading