Life Itself
Decent documentary on Roger Ebert and "At The Movies", by a friend of his. I've always liked Ebert as a critic, this sheds some light on him as a person.…
ALT (2019)
A woman returns to her rural home and winds up crossing the dimensional barrier to be with her dead parents, or some nonsense. I believe this is the pilot for…
Skit
Godawful home-movie-quality "mockumentary" about a bunch of cringily inane college students in 2007 who decide to make a YouTube video, as if that's some sort of event, with not a…
Picnicface (series)
Unfunny Canadian sketch comedy show that only lasted a season, thankfully. I guess sometimes even Canada has an off day.
Belushi’s Toilet
This odd little sci-fi/not-very-funny black comedy has a certain appeal until it eventually collapses under its own weight. In the near future when all drugs have been made legal, a…
The Mist
I have an odd affection for this atrocious Stephen King adaptation about a strange mist that brings a plague of monsters to a Maine town. Sadly, King adaptations seem to…
Hag
"Fatal Attraction" lite. TV-movie-quality thriller about sexually fluid LA hipsters taken in by a psycho pretending to be an old love. Worse than it sounds.
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
Just putting here because I forgot to review it and it's a touchstone for a certain variety of film that I find so worthless I can't imagine why they were…
Visioneers
At one point there seemed to be this new school of thought where you can make a movie by taking one or two high concept self-consciously "weird" ideas which may…
Parasomnia
Wow. The ultimate "A+ for effort" horror/fantasy flick. Fails, but what an effort! In terms of plot, if it matters, a temporary resident of a mental institution falls for the…
Zeroland
James Franco leads a a broad selection of modern comedy actors on a tour up Hollywood's ass. It's extremely well-directed, with fantastic production values, and a cast with more plusses…
White Crack Bastard
Zero budget but still somewhat entertaining slice-of-life about a crack-addicted photographer just getting by in LA. Not much plot, and some of the acting is flat-out terrible, but actually kind…
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 5th 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)…