by admin | Nov 29, 2021 | Reviews, Uncategorized
Until quite recently, movies based in worlds created first in video games have been … well, iffy at best. ‘Lousy’ would be more accurate. Prior to Detective Pikachu, in fact, you’d be hard-pressed to name a movie that was even half good, and some so bad...
by admin | Nov 6, 2021 | Reviews, Uncategorized
Sometimes it’s worth looking back. I’ve been so impressed by Midnight Mass, and basically be everything Mike Flanagan has done so far, that I took a couple of hours on a quiet Friday afternoon and re-watched Absentia, his first (available) feature film...
by admin | Jul 28, 2020 | Reviews
I just waded through Winchester on Netflix and … I am at a loss. At a loss to explain how so much money and talent could be wasted on such an utterly uninvolving, derivative, boring ‘haunted house’ movie. This shambling, unfeeling, tedious thing has beautiful...
by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Reviews
Harlan Coben makes a few jillion dollars a year on his suspense novels (though ‘suspense’ seems like a pretty strong word for his stories. Maybe … “tension novels”?) Generally speaking, I find they have great premises, great hooks, but...
by admin | Mar 2, 2020 | Reviews
Seriously, who are they kidding? This moderately engaging Netflix mini-series smells so strongly of Carrie and IT that it makes your nose twitch. So why are the producers claiming complete astonishment at the parallels? Don’t get me wrong — it’s well...
by admin | Feb 19, 2020 | Reviews
I reviewed this fun, frenetic combo of Juno and Gremlins over here on SefijaOnline.com. Here’s more … The nice folks at SeFijaOnline.com let me in on some of their screenings and screeners, if I agree to write a little review. Sometimes they’re great...
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