Watched an interesting little vampire movie on Netflix called The Transfiguration. Not really a vampire movie except the main character, a young, poor black teenage boy in the city, has a compulsion to drink human blood and has a fixation … Continue reading
Guillermo Del Toro’s new movie The Shape of Water is what happens when you drop ET, Splash, The Iron Giant, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Pan’s Labyrinth into a blender. This crazy mix of themes and ideas results in … Continue reading
Also saw Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, the new biopic about the creator of Wonder Woman and the two loves of his life who influenced the creation. And by the two loves of his life, I mean his wife … Continue reading
Checked out the new wilderness survival movie The Mountain Between Us. I say wilderness survival when I guess I should also call it an unconvincing romance… so unconvincing, I didn’t realize it WAS a romance until the end of the … Continue reading
Also watched (via streaming) the new sci-fi romance film 2:22. This isn’t an entirely bad film but it is wasted on not knowing what kind of movie it wants to be and flounders trying to find a purpose. The … Continue reading
Went to see the new teen romance flick Everything, Everything. It’s not a bad time at the movies… it could have picked up the pace in the middle as I thought it got a bit draggy at times. Premise … Continue reading
The new Beauty and the Beast live-action remake of the 1991 Disney original is a remarkably good film. I suspect it’ll be a better movie if I see it again without having to constantly compare and predict how it’s different … Continue reading
So finally got out to see Fifty Shades Darker… this is the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey which isn’t a very good movie but it was hardly the crime against cinema a lot of people make it out to … Continue reading
The Academy Award Nominated film Moonlight just hit digital rental (after being at the local theater for over a month but only at 6 or 10pm). I gave it a spin since, hey, it’s an important Oscar flick, ‘n all. … Continue reading
Caught up on the indie comedy(?) romance (?) sci-fi (?) film The Lobster – available on Amazon Prime. This is a rather… odd… movie starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, and John C. Reilly (in a small roll). What’s it about? … Continue reading