Why the new version is better than the old one. Three years ago, I viewed David Lynch’s 1984 take on Frank Herbert’s book “Dune,” which had Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Patrick Stewart, […]
Dune, Where’s My Car?
Bleeding Love
A father daughter drama that moves and annoys you. Ewan McGregor and his daughter Clara play a father and daughter destroyed by the pathos within their lives in “Bleeding Love.” The old […]
Lover, Stalker, Killer
A love triangle that begins online and has dark angles. “Lover, Stalker, Killer” is a haunting and thought-provoking Netflix documentary about a love triangle gone horribly wrong. I don’t mean it in […]
Orion and the Dark, Greatest Night in Pop, Suncoast, Scrambled, and Promised Land Podcast Review
CJ reviews movies about nighttime, famine relief, young women, and land developers on the air. I’ve joined a radio station known as NewHD, which will not only hire people on the Autism […]
Lisa Frankenstein, Out of Darkness, Perfect Days, Promised Land, and Taste of Things Video Review
CJ’s video reviews resurrect, hunt, clean, develop, and cook. This week’s video reviews consist of the horror romcom “Lisa Frankenstein” with Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse, the supernatural Stone Age horror film […]
Drift
Cynthia Erivo leads a drama that’s missing essence. As “Drift” begins, we meet Jacqueline (Cynthia Erivo), a Liberian refugee from a war-torn West Africa, who wanders around the Greek Islands, penniless and […]
Lisa Frankenstein
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 […]
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 […]
