Noelle (2019)
“I would like to do what you do.” Noelle, for better and more so for worse, unintentionally captures what it’s like to open gifts from slightly distant relatives during the […]
Playing with Fire (2019)
“Nothing here is for children.” There’s pretty much nothing to like about Playing With Fire, an absolutely bizarre PG rated romp that feels the need to try to sneak in […]
Doctor Sleep (2019)
“They come back.” At its core, Doctor Sleep takes Stephen King’s novel (which I admittedly have not read) and flips the pages into a supernatural horror story built for the […]
Let It Snow (2019)
“You have terrible instincts.” The odd thing about Let It Snow is that the film wants to be both a romantic fantasy for young adults and a straight comedic farce, […]
Love, Antosha (2019)
“Anton was like a sponge.” For those familiar with the truly astonishing work of the late Anton Yelchin, it should come as no surprise that – from a hopeful hello, […]
Harriet (2019)
“Fear is your enemy. Trust in God.” Not much about Harriet was first-time news for me. She was the subject of a grade school report I wrote as a pre-teen, and my […]
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
“You don’t fight it. You run from it.” There’s almost nothing that I liked or was able to take away from the bloated, boggled, and bungled mess that is Terminator: […]
Black and Blue (2019)
“Either you’re one of us or you’re one of them.” Most movies of this type – seedy, procedural, B-movie movie crime dramas – tend to start strong and continue to […]
Hocus Pocus (1993)
“So the legends are true.” It’s baffling to think that Hocus Pocus, possibly one of the most definitive cult classics of all-time, didn’t make much of a splash during its initial […]
Sweetheart (2019)
“I’ve never seen it during the day.” Conceptually speaking, Sweetheart is an intriguing and easy sell for curious audiences to buy into. The first predatory shot lifts the camera from underwater […]
