Some stories work better on the page than the screen and that’s what we get with Stronghold. A movie that’s far more suited to a […]
Tag: Drama
Mermaids’ Lament- Review
Mermaids’ Lament commits the cardinal sin of movies. It’s boring. Lacking any story and characters with a purpose. The movie gently swims along with random […]
Artists In Agony
Artists in Agony is a movie that’s better than it should be. Directed by a guy that’s more well known for his visual effects than […]
Call Her King- Review
At first glance, Call Her King looks like a fun, cheesy action movie. But as we get further and further into the movie, we move […]
South of Sanity- Review
South of Sanity cheated me. Not only was everything memorable from the trailer in the first thirty minutes of the movie. But the overall feel […]
Under His Control- Review
Under His Control is inspired by true events, a saying I take with a grain of salt. As movies that start with the phrase ‘based […]
Aged- Review
I saw the trailer for Aged and was a little confused about the story. And after watching the entire movie, I’m still not sure what […]
First Contact- Review
I enjoy a movie that moves unpredictably. Instead of following its genre expectations, giving us something different. And First Contact gives us just that. (You […]
Esme, My Love Review
I have a general rule of thumb. After the first thirty minutes, the audience should have a general idea of what the movie is about. […]
Aged- trailer
A woman takes a job as a caregiver and begins seeing things that aren’t there in AGED on VOD June 15.
Country Of Hotels- Review
When I think of anthology horror movies, titles like The Twilight Zone, Tales From the Darkside and Creep Show come to mind. When done right, […]
Esme, My Love- Trailer
Cory Choy gives us a new supernatural thriller, ESME, MY LOVE out June 2, from Terror Films.
One Of These Days
I’ve heard a lot of great things about One Of These Days. Which made me excited to watch the movie. And after I saw it […]
Why ‘The Fifth Element’ Is A Possible Watch
The last time I saw The Fifth Element would have been in the late nineties. Which, geez, has been over twenty years ago. I expected […]
‘The Infiltrator’ Is An Interesting Cop Movie
The infiltrator is by far one of the more interesting undercover cop movies I have seen in a long time. It’s based on a book […]
‘The Next Three Days’ Is A Movie To Watch
The trailer for The Next Three Days made the movie look like it’s going to be a hard-hitting action thriller. The movie itself is great. […]
‘Power Rangers’ -Not Bad, But Couldn’t Find It’s Voice
I remember waaaayyyy back in the last century when Power Rangers first premiered on TV. Who knew the show would spawn such a franchise? The […]
‘Roman J Israel Esq’- Good, Not Great. Worth Watching Once
I feel conflicted by Roman J Israel Esq. It’s not an awful movie. But not a great movie either. I wouldn’t want to watch this […]
‘The Killing Of A Sacred Deer’- An Attractive Bizarre (Bad) Movie
The only reason I watched The Killing Of A Sacred Deer was that Alicia Silverstone is in this movie. And to my disappointment, she’s only […]
Why ‘Pearl Harbor’ Is Not A Movie To Watch
I don’t get all the hate over Michael Bay films. He makes decent movies most of the time. He’s not great at telling a story, […]
Why ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans’ Is A Movie Not To Watch
I started watching Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans once several years ago when it was on Netflix or something. I fell asleep and […]
Why ‘Changeland’ Is A Movie Not To Watch
I’ve been a big fan of Seth Green since the 90s and love his work. Recently I was searching through JustWatch and came across a […]
Why ‘The Ramen Girl’ Is A Movie To Watch
The promo poster for The Ramen Girl does not do the movie justice. It looks like this is going to be a cheap rom-com movie, […]
Why ‘Heat’ is a must watch movie
Heat is one of those classic movies that seem to pop up regularly on anything that discusses movies. And for some reason, I never saw […]
Why ‘The Virgin Suicides’ is a movie not to watch
I’m not sure who decided 1999 was the greatest year for movies, but somehow The Virgin Suicides falls into this “greatest movie” category. Which I […]
Why ‘Warning Shot’ Is A Movie Not To Watch
Warning Shot is someone’s artsy fartsy attempt at making a crime thriller. Only they forgot the art part and squeezed out a wet fart of […]
Why ‘Legally Blonde’ Is A Movie To Watch
Legally Blonde is like Northern Exposure crossed with Cosmo magazine. It’s a fun fish-out-of-water story about a California Barbie girl going to Harvard Law School. […]
‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ is a good movie
It’s A Wonderful Life is a beautiful film with a setup that is far too long. From the beginning, we know that poor George Bailey […]
‘The Pledge’ is confusing and lacks direction.
The Pledge begins as an intense, almost gruesome, crime movie. Moving from gritty detective story to lonely old man starting a new life and seeing […]
‘Vampire’s Kiss’ – an awful movie. Not worth watching.
Vampire’s Kiss is one of those movies that has cemented itself in pop culture. And for the life of me, I have no idea why. […]
Why ‘Cop’ is a terrible movie- Don’t watch
About a decade ago I bought Cop on VHS. The tracking was so poor I could only play the movie once and only remembered the […]
Why ‘Memoirs of an Invisible Man’ is an underrated movie
Memoirs of an Invisible Man is one of those movies that people love to dump on. And I don’t understand why. I’ve seen this movie […]
Why ‘Made In America’ Is A Movie To Watch
With everything becoming soooo politically correct, it’s refreshing to find a movie that throws everything out the window. The filmmakers aren’t trying to be rude […]
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is the first movie released by Roku. And I can’t imagine why they thought this should be their first movie. […]
The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
The biggest downfall of The Astronaut Farmer is that it’s soooo unbelievable. I guy built a rocket in his barn using old parts and wants […]
Hackers (1995)
Hackers is one of those movies that every few years I like to revisit. And every time I watch it, I’m surprised by how well […]
Planes Trains and Automobiles (1987)
This is the second time I’ve seen Planes, Trains and Automobiles and I got up a lot and losing interest. This isn’t an awful movie. […]
6 Reasons ‘Babe’ Is An Awesome Movie
Babe is a wonderful family movie. The story is inspirational. The characters are great people. The effects are better than most new movies. And the […]
‘Permanent Midnight:’ Why It Doesn’t Work- And How To Fix It
Watching the trailer made Permanent Midnight look more like a dark comedy with an awesome 90s cast. A young Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Janeane Garofalo, […]
‘Nick Of Time’ Review: Silly and sloppy- Hard Pass
First, it’s a huge big time disappointment that the main character is not named Nick. I mean, the movie is called Nick Of Time … […]
‘Magnum Force’ Review: Boring, good action
I’m a big fan of the first Dirty Harry movie. I would rent it from the library allll the time. At some point I watched […]
‘Red Dawn’ Review: Good movie, bad ending- Must watch
It’s day two of my wife’s sickness and I’m home from work, so I watched an action movie that I hadn’t seen in a very […]
‘Fanboys’ Review: A sloppy dud
My wife is sick and we’re home early from our trip to the beach, so I decided to watch a stupid lame-o comedy and that’s […]
UHF movie review
UHF should be hilarious. Instead, we get a mishmash of humor and scenes that feel like someone was just taking random clips of old Weird […]
‘I Can Only Imagine’ movie review: Silly but touching
I Can Only Imagine is an emotional, inspirational story with a setup that lasts waaaayyyy toooo long. I mean, really, this doesn’t feel like a […]
Free Willy movie review
Free Willy is one of the best movies I have seen in several years. Just the idea of this movie makes me want to do […]
‘Philadelphia Experiment’ Review- Confusing and bland: Hard Pass
I like weird paranormal stuff and grew up watching shows like Unsolved Mysteries and Sighting. We don’t get a lot of paranormal movies based on […]
‘Need For Speed’ Review- A sloppy story but great action
When released in theaters, Need For Speed flew under my radar. And since I noticed it’s leaving Tubi soon, this weekend I made some salty, […]
Over The Top movie review
When I worked at Walmart, Over The Top was one of the few movies we had. I have a vivid memory of an older man […]
Bloodsport movie review
Wow, this is such a cool idea, and, yeah, it’s been done like a thousand times, but the idea still intrigues me. Fighters from all […]
The Arrival movie review
Wow… the effects in The Arrival are… shall we say… ambitious for 1996. Okay, let’s just go right out and say. The effects suck. All […]
The Batman movie review
Full disclosure: I love Batman. I love Batman movies. Even the horrible ones! So you know I’m a fan. And the best Batman I have […]
Hero movie review
This movie has been on my watchlist for awhile now and I’m surprised that it isn’t more popular. Hero is a fun, carefully crafted movie […]
That Thing You Do movie review
Did you know this movie was written and directed by Tom Hanks? I’m surprised that Tom Hanks hasn’t written and directed more projects. That Thing […]
Uncle Buck movie review
Believe it or not, I’ve never seen this movie growing up. I saw a few parts of it once on TV. And never watched it […]
Home Sweet Home Alone movie review
I remember watching the original Home Alone in theaters as a kid. I don’t think anyone thought at the time Home Alone would begin a […]
Blast From The Past movie review
In theory, Blast From The Past should be an awesome movie. And for the most part it is. We have a really great cast. Some […]
Ratatouille movie review
Ratatouille is a very clever story that could be a very awesome movie. Unfortunately, the movie doesn’t give our characters a big enough challenge to […]
‘Ghost In The Shell’ Review: A mess of a movie-Pass
It feels like I’ve only seen a small part of the story after watching Ghost In The Shell. Something is really missing. There was too […]
‘The Jackal’ Review: Okay, not great
The Jackal comes across as a dime store novel. Maybe because it’s based on one. The storyline is pretty out there. A Russian mobster hires […]