Of the more than twelve hundred movie reviews that I have written for this website, this is the first for which I am not providing a star rating for a movie I have seen. Why? Because I am having enormous […]
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Send Help (2026) ☆ ☆ ☆
Send Help has some of the elements that I have recently been raving that I don’t like in modern cinema; namely, characters who are much more despicable than heroic, snarky humor regarding subjects with serious consequences, plot points that defy […]
Continue reading »Wildcat (2025) ☆ 1/2
Top-tier action and fantasy movies have huge budgets, big stars and, perhaps most importantly, massive marketing pushes. Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn’t. Most producers do not have big budgets and can only afford one recognizable name or two, […]
Continue reading »Crime 101 (2026) ☆ ☆ ☆
While I tend to prefer more linear storytelling it it undeniable that editing a story where several disparate elements are interwoven into what finally becomes a recognizable and appreciable fabric is a dynamic, powerful way to create a narrative. Many, […]
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I knew next to nothing about lyricist Lorenz Hart before seeing this movie, which I did not know ahead of time is the story of Lorenz Hart’s final year or so of life. I knew that he was composer Richard […]
Continue reading »Leave the World Behind (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
If our society is eventually to collapse within itself this may be the way that collapse will begin. Doomsday scenarios like this are cautionary tales that posit what could happen if we do not prepare properly, and also serve as […]
Continue reading »The Long Game (2023) ☆ ☆ ☆
Sports movies usually their specific sport to create tension and excitement as their teams or individual performers attempt to overcome adversity to achieve a championship or a personal best or, sometimes, redemption. Occasionally there is a moral, a social statement […]
Continue reading »The Long Walk (2025) ☆ ☆ 1/2
The most cinematic writer of all time may be Stephen King. Certainly a larger percentage of his books and stories have been filmed than anyone else of which I can think (except perhaps Jane Austen, but she only wrote six […]
Continue reading »Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) ☆ ☆ ☆
I’m not the biggest fan of animated entertainment, but I have consistently enjoyed the “Wallace and Gromit” stories (and other projects) of Nick Park, the British writer, director and animator whose sense of humor is nicely aligned with my own. […]
Continue reading »Afterburn (2025) ☆ ☆
Another futuristic tale that shares its distrust of governmental authority is Afterburn, which discards its pseudo-science-fictiony premise pretty quickly to get to pure and obvious action. The content and style of this post-apocalyptic scenario is pretty similar to those which populated […]
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