Having enjoyed the first two “Quiet Place” monster movies, with a few reservations, I was really looking forward to this origin story.  I think it succeeds pretty well, especially in terms of how the cataclysm affects a small group of […]

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Allegedly based on real events, this comedy-action-horror movie is a broad fictionalization of what actually transpired in rural Georgia back in 1985.  Reflecting the tenor of our times the filmmakers have turned an almost meaningless footnote of history into a […]

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I recorded this Canadian film on my DVR and kept it there for about a year, totally expecting a comedy about a couple trying to control their cussedness before welcoming a new baby (they can hear in the womb, you […]

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For the sake of completeness I finally capitulated and sat through Space Jam: A New Legacy, the sequel to Space Jam (1996), a film I saw once, and once was enough.  Now I can say the same for this unnecessary follow-up. Malcolm […]

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The genre of Westerns has been around for more than a century; I have seen estimates than more than half of all American movies ever made have been westerns.  I have doubts about that, but the genre has been popular […]

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