Movie Views
Musings about movies.
An Enthralling Escape
3 stars The poster shows a young bikini-clad blonde toting a machine gun. The imdb.com description calls Escape the story of “ten sex-trafficked young women
Cheers, Applause for Dennison and Uproar
3 ½ stars I know little about rugby, the South African national rugby team called the Springboks, or their controversial visit to New Zealand in
Style, Substance in The Shot the Piano Player
4 stars Every once in a while, you get lucky enough to watch a film that takes your breath away. When I hit play to
Cena Steals Stanicky
3 star Three boys put a huge bag of dog crap (collected from seven different dogs) on the doorstep of a family that didn’t give
Very, Very Ordinary
2 stars In one particular way, Ordinary Angels is a revelation: After two seasons of watching him kick ass in the Reacher series on Amazon
The Razzies Get Respect on The Criterion Channel
Freddy Got Fingered is on The Criterion Channel. Holy crap! If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll probably have one of three reactions: If you haven’t
Terror One Frame at a Time in Stopmotion
3 ½ stars I wanted to run outside the second this movie was over. I wanted out of this weird world I’d been trapped in
Celebrate the Cinematic Achievement of Io Capitano
4 stars Sixteen-year-old cousins Seydou and Moussa (Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall) have a dream. They want to leave their homeland of Senegal and go
Bad Shepherd So Close to Being Great
2 ½ stars Four friends driving to a remote hunting lodge hit a woman who was walking on the side of the road. While checking
Sex is Boring
1 star Three 16-year-old girls go off on their own to the Greek party resort of Malia for seven days of Charles Bukowski-level debauchery. Their
Mulroney Delivers Solid Action
2 ½ stars After watching the scum who raped and murdered his daughter get sent to prison for life, charter school wrestling coach Harry (Dermot
Scrambled Leaves a Bad Taste
1 star Nellie Robinson is at a crossroads in her life: Her friends are all getting married or having babies. While that gives her plenty
Fitting In is Fierce, Funny
3 ½ stars According to dictionary.com, an auteur is “a filmmaker whose personal influence and artistic control over a movie are so great that the
Terrifying Trunk
3 ½ stars Let’s set the stage before you start watching Trunk: Locked In, which is now playing on Amazon Prime. Turn out all the
My Way is Overcomplicated, Still Exciting
3 stars Sometimes, less is more, even in otherwise awesome action movies. In his new movie, I Did It My Way, director/cinematographer Jason Kwan (Chasing
Freud’s Last a Flop
1 star “The world is on the brink of war. In his final days, Sigmund Freud, a recent escapee with his daughter from the Nazi
The Magnificent Madeleine
3 ½ stars The 1979 movie Manhattan opens with the lead character, Isaac Davis (Woody Allen), dictating notes for his latest novel. “He adored New
Funny , Twisted First Time Caller
3 stars Unless you are a devotee of the genre, shock jock radio can be tough to take, and to their credit, codirectors J.D. Brynn