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
Belle is an English language horror-tinged remake of Beauty and the Beast filmed in Iceland. You know the drill… a man was cursed to be a beast, a magic rose, a girl who sacrifices herself for her papa, and eventually … Continue reading
When this flick popped up on Netflix, the description did not compute. It read like the sequel to some Roman mythology romance that I’d never heard of. I skipped over it multiple times… until a memory bell chimed. Oh yeah, … Continue reading
The Perfect Addiction is another one of THOSE hated modern romance flicks. It’s about an MMA trainer (of course) who is dating her current client when she catches him cheating on her. So she finds another fighter to train to … Continue reading
I went into this movie with low expectations and a surly attitude (I had to bail on another movie because the theater’s projection was unwatchable… again). I figured it would be the latest ho-hum Pixar film randomly picked to return … Continue reading
Given that I wasn’t a fan of the original 1989 film (*gasp*), I thought this “live action” remake was a little better than the original. It still has a few of the same issues but it makes improvements to the … Continue reading
The flick is labeled as a Rom-Com but I’d categorize it as a romance… or just a drama. Mainly because the “rom-com”ness of it is so hazily written that it could – and should have been – ejected from the … Continue reading
It’d be unfair to this lovely, creative movie to call it a rom-com since that implies, shall we say, a lesser creative and artistic eye. Instead we’ll go with hang-out romance that just so happens to be very funny. That’s … Continue reading
This film is listed as a documentary on the rental service I watched it on, but don’t be fooled. It’s about the guy who convinced NYC to overturn its 30 years ban on pinball machines in the mid ’70s and … Continue reading
Based on the recommendation from the manager at my local Barnes ‘n Noble, I finished the book The Stories Life of A.J. Fikry and jumped immediately into the film. Wasn’t a highly rated movie but I very much enjoyed the … Continue reading