“Lift” is incredibly generic, very boring and quite forgettable too, just like any other film titled ‘Lift, the kind of glossy action film that moves really fast the way Netflix movies do, even if there is no requirement for it. It is not crassly silly like ‘Red Notice’, for example, but rather more on par […]
There is no beating around the bush here; writer/director Caroline Lindy exposes her accidentally yet therapeutically happy metatextual aspects in her film “Your Monster” – her first feature. It is a witty little film that has enough sharpness to it, certainly made long before it reversed its star, Melissa Barrera from her non-scream screen center.
Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer N/A) is deeply troubled and needs help. Suddenly widow and artistic partner of Ben Sarah (Reina Hardesty N/A), caused a sudden shock in Ben. He skips meals and overrides sleep mode. He is trapped in a neverending stupor, forgetting to attend to practical matters like hygiene. When his concerned sister Gloria (Lucy
There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and there’s “Lumina,” a stunningly pitiful effort at every single level that makes one think that the writers are going for a deliberate model of The Room or Birdemic and playing for the audience only. What’s with some of the awful shot selection, the hair-brained plotting,
Ricky Stanicky: Quite some time ago, and before Judd Apatow pretty much monopolized on infantile male-centered films, there still existed someone like Peter Farrelly, who with Bobby could make seine films that would, well, have a funny, if a little extreme and rude, film ‘Dumb and Dumber’ or ‘There, am Mary, but What am I?’,
Self Reliance, which marks the directorial debut of Jake Johnson from ‘New Girl’ and ‘Minx’, was not born because of COVID – well, perhaps. It’s a concept he has been throwing about for several years. But the virus and lock down that followed gave him all the time he needed to execute it. Luckily, it
“Hundreds of Beavers” is an extremely erratic nearly a silent picture of a ‘slap spark’ and a non-comic book adaptation of a rare type in which a 19th-century frontier trapper shows defiance toward nature. The expectations raised up by the title are properly fulfilled by the film. As far as I know, this is one
Between the Temples: Nathan Silver begins his “Between the Temples” with a loud, keening blast of a shofar. If you have not heard the sound before, simply picture a rather low seclusion, with the head slumped forward over the vanity deck, face down on the wheel, and you will be in the ballpark. It is
The overwhelming urge to resist a beautiful romantic comedy is sometimes hard to fathom when it comes to that particular genre. Such films can hardly be criticized as those almost belong to a different class of cinemas. Which Brings Me To You casts familiar actors in this sub-genre; movie fans, the pair’s bemoans a genre
Mother of the Bride: In recent times, there have been a surge of rather extravagant destination wedding themed rom-coms. Fashions seem to change quickly, and two years ago it was all about “Ticket to Paradise” with Clooney/Roberts and also “Shotgun Wedding” with J.Lo and Duhamel. More recently “Anyone But You” with Sweeney and Powell came
