I rented You’re Killing Me since it gave me a Ready or Not vibe from the cover art and description… and that was pretty accurate, though at a much lower budget and far more scattered a tone and themes. The … Continue reading
Unlike the eye-rolling that I experienced when I heard they were making a Tetris movie, they didn’t wind up making a fictional story about geometric shapes who live and learn and love. No, this film is about the international licensing … Continue reading
Unseen is a low budget Blumhouse production about a woman who has been kidnapped and manages to escape but loses her much needed glasses in the process. She she winds up Facetiming a random convenience store clerk and having her … Continue reading
The Strays is about a posh suburban English woman whose comfortable life starts to unravel when people from her past show up. She’s a light-skinned black woman married to a white man, they have two children… the newcomers are darker … Continue reading
Marlowe is a new theatrical Liam Neeson gunmshoe movie where he plays the classic film noir detective Philip Marlowe. When the opening credits played, we get Diane Kruger and Jessica Lang’s names and I immediately wondered which one of those … Continue reading
Sharper is a new drama/thriller on Apple TV+. It stars Justice Smith, newcomer Brianna Middleton, Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, and John Lithgow as a variety of rich people and scammers in a complex, twisty, non-linear film about confidence men. And … Continue reading
Blood stars Michelle Monaghan as a recently divorced woman hoping to retain custody of her children. When her younger child comes down with a sickness, she discovers he’s only cured through blood. She has to make some tough calls that … Continue reading
Infinity Pool is a bit of an uneven film that I’m ultimately coming down positive on, certainly more so than I thought I was during its second act. It’s third act – and especially it’s ending – really feeds my … Continue reading
Missing is an in-universe sequel to the John Cho-starring Searching from 2018. Both are “screen life” films – both told through the use of various screens the main character uses. I thought Searching was good… I think Missing is better. … Continue reading
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