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
When I posted my rewatch review of Psycho, I banged on about Roger Ebert’s old adage that movies are machines for empathy. Never has that been more true than in The Royal Hotel… a movie that feels aimless and had … Continue reading
I skipped this documentary back in 2019… not because of its gay text, but because I saw Nightmare on Elm Street 2 once on video back in 1985 and hated it. Not because I, as a clueless teen, saw some … 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 Larraín 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