Movie Views
Musings about movies.
Lazy Lisa Frankenstein
1 ½ stars There’s something off about Lisa Frankenstein. It could be the cotton candy colors of the sets and costumes, the way the “jokes”
Battling These Easter Bunnies is a Blast
3 stars Welcome to your new holiday tradition. Horror movie makers have been churning out holiday-themed gore fests for a long time. Some have been
Yen Digs Deep in Dramatic Polar Rescue
3 ½ stars It seems impossible, but I’ve been watching Donnie Yen movies for over 30 years, starting with Iron Monkey in 1993. Along the
Exhuma an Entertaining Exorcism Flick
3 stars In the 51 years since 14-year-old Linda Blair threw up pea soup and abused herself with a cross in The Exorcist (1973), hundreds
New Road House is a Trainwreck
0 stars Before being dumped on Amazon Prime this past week, there were a lot of stories planted in the press about director Doug Liman
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