Saturday, October 3, 2020
Crawl (2019)
A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators.
Run-of-the-mill creature feature is made with competence and obvious knowledge of the genre, but there simply are no surprises here.
Friday, October 2, 2020
First Lines: Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
I was jolted by the sound of gunfire in one of the neighboring stacks.
Halloween (2018)
Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Competent and plausible continuation of the Halloween tale certainly doesn't live up to the simplicity and impact of the original, but has some nice twists and shocks.
I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
In a small Midwestern town, a troubled teen with homicidal tendencies must hunt down and destroy a supernatural killer while keeping his own inner demons at bay.
Original, dark-humored tale is well-made with a good cast and appears at first glance to be a psychological drama, before, it finally deep-ends into horror territory.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
The Movies I Watched in September
Amour fou (2014) 6
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (1979)
Away (2020) 6
Battlefield Earth (2000) 2
C'era una volta il West (1968) 10
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker (1989) 6
Challenger: The Final Flight (2020) 7
Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick (1959) 6
Emerald Cities (1983) 6
Enola Holmes (2020) 7
The Fourth Estate (2018) 7
Gemini Man (2019) 6
Germania ann zero (1948) 8
Hot Thrills and Warm Chills (1967) 4
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) 7
The Iron Giant (1999) 7
Knives Out (2019) 6
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) 6
Le Mystère Henri Pick (2019) 6
Rememory (2017) 6
Salon Kitty (1976) 5
Salt and Fire (2016) 6
Seberg (2019) 6
Die Sinfonie der Ungewissheit (2018) 6
Smooth Talk (1985) 6
The Social Dilemma (2020) 7
The Straw Man (1953) 5
Thelma (2017) 7
Wild Guitar (1962) 5
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (1979)
Away (2020) 6
Battlefield Earth (2000) 2
C'era una volta il West (1968) 10
Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker (1989) 6
Challenger: The Final Flight (2020) 7
Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick (1959) 6
Emerald Cities (1983) 6
Enola Holmes (2020) 7
The Fourth Estate (2018) 7
Gemini Man (2019) 6
Germania ann zero (1948) 8
Hot Thrills and Warm Chills (1967) 4
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) 7
The Iron Giant (1999) 7
Knives Out (2019) 6
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) 6
Le Mystère Henri Pick (2019) 6
Rememory (2017) 6
Salon Kitty (1976) 5
Salt and Fire (2016) 6
Seberg (2019) 6
Die Sinfonie der Ungewissheit (2018) 6
Smooth Talk (1985) 6
The Social Dilemma (2020) 7
The Straw Man (1953) 5
Thelma (2017) 7
Wild Guitar (1962) 5
Heart of Darkness (1993)
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Good, but somewhat too literate adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel is nevertheless visually imaginative and features competent performances by Roth and Malkovich.
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
First Lines: Nnedi Okorafor - Akata Witch
The moment Sunny walked into the school yard, people started pointing.
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