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
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 […]
Orion and the Dark
We can all see in the dark here. There isn’t much theatrical kids movies in theaters at the moment, so it would make sense to that “Migration” and “Wonka” are what the […]
The Underdoggs
Too many F-bombs and cliches bring down Snoop Dogg’s football comedy. My favorite Snoop Dogg movie of all time is “Soul Plane,” when he played the pop Huggy Bear. In fact, as […]
Sometimes I Think About Dying
I’m dreaming of death in the workplace. In the new Indie romantic dramedy “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” Daisy Ridley plays a socially awkward officer worker named Fran, who barely says anything […]
Lift
Kevin Hart’s plane heist movie is in a no-fly zone. 20 years after doing his own “Airplane!” rip-off with “Soul Plane,” Kevin Hart is back with another plane movie, but in the […]
Role Play
These types of action comedies need couples therapy. Last month, AppleTV+ gave us “The Family Plan” with Mark Wahlberg as a family man who hasn’t told his wife he was a covert […]
Mean Girls (2024)
A breezy, show-stopping new take that needs to get out more. 20 years ago, we got “Mean Girls” with Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron (pronounced Katy), a homeschooled teenager, who spent her […]
Self Reliance
Jake Johnson’s directorial debut sells itself short. Jake Johnson is a fresh talent. I enjoyed him in “Drinking Buddies,” “Let’s Be Cops,” “Jurassic World,” “Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse,” and “Ride the Eagle.” […]
