Some movies, especially more modern takes on humanity, are rather mystifying to me. I struggle to understand why certain characters behave the way they do, why I am supposed to care, and sometimes even why a particular story was given […]
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You Hurt My Feelings (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
In this era of world-shaping superhero adventures, gritty and ultra-violent crime dramas and other over-the-top cinematic approaches to life on this planet it is nice to find a movie about everyday, ordinary, normal people just trying to maneuver through the […]
Continue reading »The Portable Door (2023) ☆ ☆
I knew I was in trouble with this movie when I saw the “Jim Henson Company” name in the opening credits. Six minutes in I put it on pause and wondered if I should try to finish it because I […]
Continue reading »September 5 (2024) ☆ ☆ ☆
I was eleven when the real events of this drama took place, and I don’t remember them at all. It’s ancient history. And yet — because of films like this, and Munich (2005), it isn’t ancient history at all. Movies like […]
Continue reading »Marlowe (2022) ☆ ☆
As I noted in my review of In the Land of Saints and Sinners back in November, Liam Neeson is an actor “who lends an unmistakable gravitas and believability to the characters he portrays.” He is always solid, and he comfortably […]
Continue reading »Sasquatch Sunset (2024) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Another outdoor adventure appealed to me when I saw that Sasquatch Sunset was available to watch. Being a big Abominable Snowman / Yeti / Bigfoot fan — I once did an article on Yeti movies (Volume 2, Issue 3, Winter 2001) […]
Continue reading »The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) ☆ ☆
This is a werewolf movie I had missed from a few years ago, so when I saw it was being broadcast this week I thought I should catch up with it. In theme and setting it is very much like Werewolves […]
Continue reading »Captain America: Brave New World (2025) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I’m not sure where I now stand on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After the epic concluding chapters of Infinity War and Endgame, any further superhero adventure seemed, and continues to seem, superfluous to me, especially if it involves a multiverse […]
Continue reading »Greedy People (2024) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Along with horror flicks, crime stories are all the rage, on movie screens and television screens. It seems to me that since the turn of the millennium (if not before), there has grown an unhealthy and rather perverse fascination with […]
Continue reading »Model House (2024) ☆ ☆
I was in the mood for some sleazy exploitation, and what could be more titillating than Model House, wherein five nubile young women spend time in a house together, sans chaperones? Lingerie, pillow fights, hot tub action, perhaps a catfight or […]
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