A Tim Burton wannabe you want to bury in the ground. “Lisa Frankenstein” is a teen horror romcom that feels like it has been stitched together from parts of “Edward Scissorhands,” “Sweeney […]
Lisa Frankenstein
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The Taste of Things
A vivid French drama with the right ingredients. Juliette Binochet and Benoit Magimel used to be romantic partners from 1998 to 2003, even having a daughter together, and co-starring in “The Children […]
Perfect Days
Win Wenders’ love letter to the wise, old, cassette loving janitor. The life of a janitor in Tokyo is simple. He gets up, freshens up, sprays his plants, puts his “Tokyo Toilet” […]
Out of Darkness
Travel back to the dawn of man, and see how they deal with this demon. “Out of Darkness,” originally titled “The Origin,” looks like the kind of horror movie that A24 would […]
Argylle, The Kitchen, Sometimes I Think About Dying, The Underdoggs, and American Star Podcast Reviews
CJ reviews movies about spy novelists, social orders, loners, potty mouthed football stars, and vacationing assassins on the air. I’ve joined a radio station known as NewHD, which will not only hire […]
Argylle, Orion and the Dark, Greatest Night in Pop, Suncoast, and Scrambled Video Reviews
CJ’s video reviews feature spies, night entities, pop stars, and struggling young women. This week’s video reviews consist of the action comedy “Argylle” with Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Rockwell, the animated […]
The Greatest Night in Pop
This doc is here to make a brighter day. “The Greater Night in Pop” is a made-for-Netflix documentary about how a variety of the greatest pop stars collaborated for a charity single […]
The Promised Land
Mads Mikkelsen fights for his land of opportunity. “The Promised Land” is a near powerful Danish film about determination overshadowing what starts off as cynicism and becomes malice. The original title is […]
Argylle
Predictable and confusing plot twists make this espionage action comedy a disappointment. Like “The Lost City” from two years ago, you see your own film version of a popular book and then […]
Scrambled
This wise fertility comedy becomes over easy. “Scrambled” is an independent comedy that dealing with fertility and womanhood. Never seeing a trailer but acknowledging the premise, I wanted something unique and complex […]
