The story is simple: a very grumpy older man called Otto is fed up with life and wants to end his own, but he is constantly interrupted, mainly by new neighbors who are not scared away by his rudeness. Gradually […]
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Dead for a Dollar (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
Forty to fifty years ago a bunch of new, young directors got their starts and made names for themselves, some of whom are still making acclaimed movies today. You know, names like Spielberg, Scorsese, Lucas, Friedkin, De Palma, Malick, etc. […]
Continue reading »Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
As much as I dislike the immense popularity and acclaim afforded to modern superhero movies (superheroes are not real!), I also have to admit that some of them are pretty good. Black Panther was pretty good. So is its sequel, […]
Continue reading »R. I. P. D. 2: Rise of the Damned (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
Sometimes movies surprise me. Remembering that I didn’t care at all for R. I. P. D., a supposedly comedic sci-fi / horror mashup from 2013, I was reluctant to see its belated sequel. But that’s what I was in the mood […]
Continue reading »The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
This documentary chronicles the eruption and aftermath on New Zealand’s Whakaari (White Island) in 2019, which resulted in the deaths of 22 tourists and guides who happened to be on the site at the wrong time. It is tightly edited […]
Continue reading »Empire of Light (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
At one point during this film the lead character is described as schizophrenic. Unfortunately, that’s the problem with this movie. It has a great deal of merit as a love letter to cinema and the business of movie exhibition, yet […]
Continue reading »The Fabelmans (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
As Steven Spielberg is my all-time favorite film director, it would seem natural that his newest movie, The Fabelmans, which is a thinly-veiled autobiographical account of his childhood and teenage years, would almost automatically become one of my favorite films. But […]
Continue reading »Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
The title for this sequel is unwieldy, and I dislike onions no matter what form. That said, I feel that this sequel is better than the original and a wickedly amusing good time. Rain Johnson’s story finds detective Benoit Blanc […]
Continue reading »Warriors of Future (2022) ☆ ☆
I’m open to watching science fiction from other countries and this is an ambitious futuristic monster movie made in Hong Kong which is making the rounds. It’s an action movie made in the grunge style of a lot of post-apocalyptic […]
Continue reading »The King’s Man (2021) ☆ ☆ 1/2
It’s been a year since the origin story for Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman features was released, but I finally watched it just yesterday. It has the same formula of highly-orchestrated action sequences and ribald profanity that made the other two so startling, […]
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