If you want to watch at torrid, florid, overwrought romance where the guy rends his shirt to expose his passion, crying and scowling and sneering at his one true love, then maybe The Tearsmith is the earnest, overly-serious red-blooded Harlequin … Continue reading
Float is a romance starring Andrea Bang as a Chinese-American good daughter who decides not to spend her summer at the residency her traditional parents set up for her. Instead, she runs away to spend time with her artsy auntie… … Continue reading
Welcome back to “Why do you do this to yourself theater”… this week it’s the final part in the Through My Window trilogy. Netflix promises this is the end so I’m going to believe them and get this turkey franchise … Continue reading
I loved Drive My Car from Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi so I was curious about his other films. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy has a title that sparked my interest so it was a good spot to take a second … Continue reading
For cynical (yet nonsensical) reasons, I was sure I was gonna give this Lucy Hale rom-com a fairly low score. Despite the fact I willingly rented the damn thing and like Lucy Hale. So I was at war with myself … Continue reading
Foe is one of the few movie trailers I’ve seen in recent years… and it’s both a curse and a saving grace to my viewing experience of this rather plodding film. It’s set in 2065 where humanity is just starting … Continue reading
See You on Venus is ultimately a very familiar ticking clock romance between two impossibly pretty actors that you’ve seen before and can probably outthink in a microsecond. It doesn’t help that the moon-brained girl fantasizes about Venus as this … Continue reading
Spring is about a young American who takes a break from his life in an extended vacation in Rome. He meets a beautiful, mysterious Italian girl who has an expansive, supernatural secret. Moorehead and Benson are working on a whole … 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
Past Lives is a marvelous, wistful, and thoughtfully romantic film that’s easily going in my top ten of the year. I thought it was about immigrants returning to their homeland and finding out they no longer fit in with the … Continue reading