On an academic and thriller level, I rather like what Decision to Leave presents. But, for me, it has a central hole that it fails to fill that ultimately left me cold. The film is about a detective investigating the … Continue reading
The spoiler alert of Spoiler Alert is that the hero dies… which is the full title of the memoir this movie is based on. Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by journalist Michael Ausiello. I haven’t read this book and I’m … Continue reading
Bones and All is a lovely, tender, heart-felt romance between two cannibals. It’s also a bit of a horror story… but not because the two lovers are cannibals, but because there’s a less (ahem) savory cannibal lurking about. Yes, this … Continue reading
First Love is a basic, no-frills, earnest, old-fashioned romance. Not a rom-com, not a melodramatic potboiler, not an R rated farce, not overly saccharin. It’s, unfortunately, also a little bit too drama-free and struggles to justify it’s relatively average runtime. … Continue reading
Next Exit is a genre-bender… a romance, a romantic comedy, a comedy sci-fi road trip that never really coalesces into something great. But I think they put in the effort to focus on the emotional life of two characters and … Continue reading
I started watching this one fully expecting to hate it given the aggressively downward trajectory of the franchise. And at first I was as sneeringly dismissive as I was with the terrible third flick. But then… you know… this movie … Continue reading
Three Thousand Years of Longing has a lot of interesting and fascinating ideas but it really isn’t about those ideas. Instead, it’s more about a handful of short stories circulating about a relationship that isn’t half as interesting as those … Continue reading
Royalteen is a Netflix YA romance film where an “Average Girl” runs into the crown prince of Norway and they fall in love. But will her “Dark Past” ruin the relationship before it can even take off? Yawn. Huh? What … Continue reading
I gave an extra nudge to the the first two flicks in this misbegotten franchise simply because they looked good and were filmed well. Well, the charity has run out, the gloves are off, and I’m joining the masses with … Continue reading
Look Both Ways is a new Netflix film in which the multiverse has a say about the life of a college graduate. When checking the results of a pregnancy test, it’s positive in one ‘verse and negative in the other. … Continue reading