Save me from myself but I went to see the deeply terrible teen-girl-with-weird-affliction romance weepy Midnight Sun. In this flick, Bella Thorne plays a girl with Xeroderma Pigmentaurous (XP), a skin disease where any amount of sunlight could be deadly. … Continue reading
A new romantic / magical realism teen/YA film named Every Day sneaked into theaters this weekend. I saw one trailer only and, by the way the movie opens, you aren’t supposed to know the twist and I feel bad for … Continue reading
Went to see the final Fifty Shades film Fifty Shades Freed. The joke running around is that it’s 50 Shades Freed for star Dakota Johnson (and Jamie Dorman). Finally free of the contractual obligation of gratuitous (but not too gratuitous) … Continue reading
Finally caught up on the highest grossing Japanese anime film (in Japan) from 2016 – Your Name. See. This. Movie. It’s a marvelous, beautiful, sweet, funny, tragic, gorgeous, romantic, and all around excellent film. Inside Out won best animated film … Continue reading
Got around to checking out Phantom Thread tonight and I wish I’d gone sooner. It was pretty great. I was concerned because I wasn’t the biggest fan of Paul Thomas Anderson’s last films (Inherent Vice and The Master) and, frankly, … Continue reading
Also caught The Greatest Showman, the flick about P.T. Barnum as played by Hugh Jackman in full song-and-dance mode (as opposed to action hero mutant mode). This movie has some pretty bad reviews and I suspect a lot of that … Continue reading
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