I really enjoyed the original Book Club back in 2018, calling it the funniest comedy of the year. This one is not that one. It’s five years later and everyone is five years older and half of the men in the […]
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Renfield (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
How do you return to and make relevant a story more than a century old that is familiar to all horror fans? In this case, focus on a secondary character and make him the protagonist, allowing the audience to view […]
Continue reading »Air (2023) ☆ ☆ ☆
Good movies can be made about just about anything. Shoes, for instance. A pro athlete who has yet to play a game. Executives at a company with financial concerns and low confidence. Jerky agents. All of these elements are present […]
Continue reading »65 (2023) ☆ ☆
Some guys have the worst luck in the universe. Such a guy is Mills. He’s got a cushy job, piloting a spaceship of immigrants through the heavens. Then a rogue meteor shower impacts his ship. The damage is such that […]
Continue reading »Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) ☆ ☆
Another science fiction failure is the latest Marvel movie, a franchise that peaked fighting Thanos but has struggled to find worthwhile foes since then. Expansion into “the multi-verse” is a mistake (but will happen anyway; they have to make movies […]
Continue reading »Don’t Worry Darling (2022) ☆ ☆ 1/2
One of 2022’s most discussed films is Don’t Worry Darling, which is good because ambitious and ambiguous projects like this should be seen and discussed for years to come, and bad because most of what is being talked about is the […]
Continue reading »Knock at the Cabin (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Moral conundrum as performance art has a long history dating back to the Greeks, I believe, but that doesn’t make watching it any easier. For viewers understand quickly that in these parables everything pales to the central question the story […]
Continue reading »80 for Brady (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Evidently women love football just as much as men do; at least that is true of the four female characters who lead 80 for Brady, which is inspired by a true story. This film boasts a whole lot of girl power; […]
Continue reading »The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I find it strange when movie stars portray fictionalized versions of themselves; thankfully it doesn’t happen very often. When it does, the results can be spectacularly weird and flamboyant (Being John Malkovich for one, this for another). I can report […]
Continue reading »Plane (2023) ☆ ☆ ☆
It’s always an interesting surprise when a film takes an unexpected turn. or heads off in a different direction. Sometimes it’s a good thing (Changeling, 2008), sometimes it’s a bad thing (Changeling, 2008) — depending on your point of view. […]
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