This is another one of those crass, rude and lewd comedies which I do not care for very much. Its strongest asset is that it is female-centric, led by believable, empathetic female characters, with a story that eventually leads to […]
Continue reading »Month: January 2020
Underwater (2020) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Claustrophobic horror films are usually fun, and you cannot get much more claustrophobic than six-and-a-half miles beneath the ocean’s surface, in the deepest area of the Pacific Ocean. This film is rather derivative, however, something along the lines of The […]
Continue reading »The Cannibal Killer: The Real Story of Jeffrey Dahmer (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
My friend Pete Jacelone has made what I consider to be his best movie yet, one which premiered last night at the Anthology Film Archive in New York City. It is his second of three planned serial killer outings; the […]
Continue reading »Cats (2019) ☆ ☆
Yes, Cats is among the strangest films of this, or any other, year. Pretty much everything you’ve read about it (if, indeed, you have been reading about this particular cat-tastrophe) is true. And yet . . . I kind of […]
Continue reading »Knives Out (2019) ☆ ☆ ☆
Whodunits with large groups of unlikable characters leave me rather cold, but writer-director Rian Johnson has found a way to sweeten the pot with some very clever plotting. The story is consistently surprising, beautifully edited and builds very strongly in […]
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