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
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