I knew this Amazon Prime original movie had landed when I was so unapologetically moved by a goddamn Spongebob Squarepants cake. Not that the movie hadn’t jangled my nerves and rattled my brains up to that point, but… wow… someone … Continue reading
Bullet Train is a very slick film that fell out of the Tarantino 90s Clone tree and hit all the branches on the way down. It thinks its the most clever thing to quip and all I could think of … Continue reading
Last Seen Alive is an effective-enough little mid-tier thriller that I figured would be worse than it is. So… it’s a pleasant surprise? Maybe that’s too much praise… it’s a pleasant-enough surprise? That’s more like it. Gerard Butler plays a … Continue reading
Asking For It is about a young lady who oops accidentally falls in with a crew of radical militant feminists out to take revenge on predatory masculinity, frat boys, and human traffickers. It’s a film that never really commits to … Continue reading
Alexa and Siri might be evil, ya’ll. Like, they might be planning to take over your house and run your life. So better watch out, better not pout. Sigh. Dark Cloud is a very boring, very uninspired story about a … Continue reading
The last time I saw Naomi Watts on screen, she was suffering through a blizzard on top of a mountain in Infinite Storm. Now I get to watch her jog miles on a hurt leg while emotionally suffering over the … Continue reading
The Black Phone snuck up on me and I managed to watch it without any background (other than Ethan Hawk being in it and a creepy cover). For instance, I wasn’t aware that this is from the director of Sinister … Continue reading
Watcher is a very Hitchcockian film that doesn’t quite stand up to its cinematic inspirations. Sometimes it comes close and you can feel what they are striving to be. I wish I liked the whole thing instead of just some … Continue reading
Spiderhead feels like it exists for one purpose: to give Chris Hemsworth a meaty acting gig that proves he’s more than just Thor (or a goofy comedian). And, hey, if that was the goal then they achieved it. This is … Continue reading
Netflix presents: a movie dumb as a box of rocks. A script full of hammy cheesetastic corny lines of buff studmuffin dialog. And maybe a little bit of just-go-with-it fun… at least for awhile. And then you just want them … Continue reading