Wentworth (series)
Australian for "OITNB". Womens' prison drama plays it fairly straight and gritty, doesn't have OITNB's perverse humor. Decent, though, with good acting. Maybe it's Australian for "Oz".
Please Don’t Eat The Children
Not terribly thrilling captivity thriller. Weird high-concept background that doesn't really come into play, as children are being put into camps for carrying a zombie cannibal virus, and a group…
Bad Boy Bubby
I've never been more torn as to whether I liked or hated a film. This plays like the evil twin of "Being There"—a cheaply-made film in which a deranged man-child,…
Barbie
Barbie and Ken travel back and forth between Barbie land and the real world, with fairly predictable results, in a feminist spoof on the toy dolls and their immense world…
The Pond (2021)
A slow-to-get-going, very quiet but beautifully shot rural folk horror that I'm sure most people will hate but I found very satisfying, once it got going, to the extent that…
News Readers
Goofy, mildly amusing Cartoon Network Adult Swim news parody segment repackaged as a series on Tubi. Fairly funny, although more in a "chuckle" kind of way than a "laugh out…
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Funny enough, if you like Sacha Baron-Cohen's type of humor. It's not nonstop hilarity but definitely has some laugh-out-loud moments. A big plus is that they added the character of…
The Dark Divide
David Cross in a dramedy biopic of a lepidopterist who gets lost on a hiking trip in the woods near Mr. Ranier. A little saccharine and not really funny but…
Borderline
Resonably amusing comedy about a deranged fan stalking a pop star. Samara Weaving. Soundtrack is faintly interesting.
The Fifth Shadow
An artist and his wife scream at each other through an endless montage of artsy-fartsy special effects, choppy editing, and frequent changes of film stock. IMDB says it's a story…
All Alone Together
Some sort of BS attempt at weak horror about a filmmaker. As amateurish as it gets. High-school-play-level acting, too talky, leaden pacing. Decently lit, though, which is funny.
Bigfoot, UFOs, and Jesus
Alcoholic singer comes home to her just-slightly-quirky family in rural Michigan after her dad dies while looking for UFOs in this actually-not-bad-for-a-terrible-Christian-movie flick. Stars Donnie Most and Victoria Jackson, who…
Sator
Tediously slow, talky folk horror. People out in the woods are stalked by some sort of demonic entity or cult, I'm not sure because I kept zoning out.
Tideland
The rare snoozer from Terry Gilliam. A 10 year old girl, her odd-duck neighbors, and the corpse of Jeff Bridges inhabit an abandoned rural house. All the gorgeous cinematography you'd…
Altered Perception (2017)
Several couples take an experimental drug and argue about their relationships, and argue about their relationships, and argue about their relationships, and argue about their relationships, and argue about their…
The Seasoning House
Serious but kind of dull ostensible horror about a young girl kidnapped and put to work in a brothel in a war-torn eastern European country. Plays more like a drama…
Abruptio
Now, this is a uniquely weird movie. A bizarre and gory tale of unseen forces manipulating humans to commit acts of extreme violence is told entirely with human-sized puppets, which…
Possessor
An assassin uses mind-transfer technology to carry out assassinations with other people's bodies. Decent enough outing from Brandon Cronenberg, who's still got his dad's high-concept pretensions (in a good way)…
Anxiety (2024)
Overly amateur production about a recoving alcoholic stressing out during the pandemic, which apparently consists of seeing "artsy" video montages and effects, plus way too many real-life clips of Donald…
The Hoarder
Forgettable Hollywood B-movie pop horror flick featuring Mischa Barton. People trapped and hunted in a storage facility.
Cheap Thrills
Well-made but irredeemably, genuinely horrible "Funny Games"*-type picture consisting of nothing but brutality as entertainment. Billed as a "black comedy", without a single bit of humor, unless you think violence…
Come To Daddy
Elijah Wood, whom I always seem to like, goes to visit the father he's never known (Canadian character actor Stephen McHattie from Pontypool and a whole lot more) at his…
The Decedent
Found-footage crap about a gorgeous mortician who works on the body of serial killer and is possessed by the entity that made him kill and spends the rest of the…
Debbie Does Demons
I think this is a softcore porno that somehow wound up on Tubi. Some sort of horror-themed nonsense about a ouija board summoning a 300-year-old witch is a pretext for…
Alice and the Vampire Queen
Hokey C-grade but fun flick that plays like a forgotten vampire TV show pilot. A gorgeous ex-con, down on her luck, gets hired as a chef for private club catering…
Lillith
This is one of the best awful movies I've ever seen. A jilted college student summons a succubus to get revenge on her ex-boyfriend, and then can't stop her from…
Lifechanger
Not-as-bad-as-it-should be little indie horror with a fairly original premise: with no explanation, just a statement that it is so, a shapeshifting serial killer must repeatedly kill people and assuming…
Interlopers
High-concept British zombie film takes a talky, philosophical approach with the idea that a "zombie virus" infeecting people is actually elevating them to "second generation" life forms, with a desire…
Spider-Man — Homecoming
It's a Marvel superhero movie.That generally says it all, in my experience. Somehow these big Marvel superhero movies remind me of Michael Jackson's adult career: get a bunch of big-name…