No Exit is a surprisingly taut (and sometimes viscous) little thriller that came out of nowhere (or, you know, Hulu) and surprised me. I was really all set to give it an even more surprisingly high score until the final … Continue reading
Blacklight is a lesser one of Neeson’s gray-in-the-temple Dad action flicks. It’s not as bad as his worse ones though… but only barely manages to bob around beneath the more almost-there mediocre ones. It certainly tries for more story, at … Continue reading
Here we have Steven Soderbergh playing in a conventional genre that he sometimes like to dabble in. There’s nothing particularly unique about the story on a bullet point list level, but the energy and the acting is pretty great. It’s … Continue reading
I hate to tell an ambitious movie to pick a lane… but, seriously, this movie needs to pick a lane. The movie starts with one set of disturbing behavior and ends with a whole new bunch of freaky weirdness. Is … Continue reading
In the Forest is a bizarrely no budget film with weird edits, terrible dialog, and actors who might be decent if they weren’t saddled with such terrible dialog. I also am not sure what genre it falls into. It has … Continue reading
I’m familiar with this infamous director’s past “true crime” efforts but I’ve never seen them. Never had enough interest to track them down. But Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman was on Netflix. I was on Netflix. Might as well be on … Continue reading
I didn’t know much more than “there’s crime involved among friends” when I started watching so I won’t say a lot more than that. I gather the trailers give it all away but I avoided those. The film is set … Continue reading
Borrego snuck up on me and surprised me. It’s a dusty, dry, dehydrated crime thriller that has pacing that should have bored me, but didn’t. I was engaged with the story and the characters enough that the slow spots were … Continue reading
This film starts strong with beautiful on-location nature footage of (presumably) Svalbard, Norway in the Arctic Circle. Set on a small tourist boat taking a multinational group of people on a tour of the landscape. It has the setup, it … Continue reading
The biggest sin Brazen commits is being no more scandalous than an awkward teenage boy noticing the lingerie while walking through Target. It <i>thinks</i> it’s being naughty or <clutches pearls> sleazy, but it’s really just a Halloween costume. It’s an … Continue reading