MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
Family Business
For a first film with a huge shadow looming over it The Watchers isn’t bad. It’s just not great.
Up and Away
Fan fiction? An Il Mare riff? Suicide jokes? A Balloon’s Landing is just weird and ballsy enough to be enjoyable.
Clicks and Giggles
Would you like Nicolas Cage invading your dreams? If so the cancel culture satire Dream Scenario is for you.
Burial at Sea
Why is 3D back? If you want to see anything in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, see it in 2D.
The Long Good-bye
If Hayao Miyazaki is going out after The Boy and the Heron, it’s not quite with a whimper, but it certainly isn’t a bang.
Pure Sugar
Holy crap, Wonka is actually a delight and that monster at WB didn’t hide it from us.
Good ‘Gods’
Finally. Not the Monkey King! Creation of the Gods kicks off with Kingdom of Storms.
An Acquired Taste
Mirror is just so 2022. Here’s comes Error with YUM Investigation, a little 1982.
We Got the Pink
It’s chirpy. It’s pink. It’s less miserable than Oppenheimer. It’s Barbie, and it’s every bit as hyper as you think it is.
Cheesy ‘Rider’
Shin Kamen Rider, Shin Masked Rider, whatever the title, it’s the least of Hideaki Anno’s Shin Trilogy.
Monster Mash
Yokaipedia is like a Japanese Stranger Things, including the girl, the Black kid and the upside down.
‘Mirror’ Mirror
Lonely Castle in the Mirror is the Toyota of anime. Solid, dependable, easily serviced. Not too flashy.