One clear winner this week, though two others are definitely worth your time. Heretic Heretic is the prototypical 2024 horror movie – a very straightforward psychological thriller with a simple premise that doesn’t overreach until the overly ambitious and inevitably unsatisfying conclusion. It doesn’t break new ground but it doesn’t fuck up the basics either.Continue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: Heretic / Juror #2 / It’s What’s Inside / Blink Twice / My Old Ass / Red Rooms”
Tag Archives: netflix
2024 Movie Reviews: Trap / Didi / Tarot / Cinnamon
A teen horror slasher, a coming-of-age dramedy, a low-budget crime drama and an M. Night Shyamalan movie. A lot of variety this week. Trap NON-SPOILERS: I’ll always give an M. Night Shyamalan joint the time of day. No matter how low the Tomato score, or how awful co-workers say it is, or even if IContinue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: Trap / Didi / Tarot / Cinnamon”
2024 Movie & TV Reviews: The Bear / MaXXXine / Beverly Hills Cop 4 / Interview with the Vampire
Chefs, vampires, serial killers and Eddie Murphy. The Bear Season 3 The Bear might be the most popular scripted series currently on the air. An instant smash hit when it debuted back in 2022, it only grew bigger and bigger with each passing episode until, by the end of Season 2, everyone declared it thisContinue reading “2024 Movie & TV Reviews: The Bear / MaXXXine / Beverly Hills Cop 4 / Interview with the Vampire”
2024 Movie Reviews: The Watchers / Hit Man / Ren Faire
The Watchers The Watchers is an exhausting watch but not in the way…let’s say an Ingmar Bergman picture would be. Nope, it’s not utterly mind-ravaging in the way a well-executed but intensely cerebral avant-garde thriller from Europe would be. The Watchers is belligerently debilitating because at no point does any supporting character stop verbal diarrhea-ingContinue reading “2024 Movie Reviews: The Watchers / Hit Man / Ren Faire”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Monkey Man / Immaculate / Road House / The Truth vs Alex Jones / The Program / You’ll Never Find Me
Nothing is particularly great this week. Monkey Man If there was ever a ‘kitchen sink’ movie, it’s Monkey Man, the debut feature of underrated young actor-turned-writer/director/producer Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, The Green Knight, Lion). While it often feels like fourteen different movies starting and stopping throughout a 113-minute runtime, it’s more or less a hyper-stylized revenge tale. When aContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: Monkey Man / Immaculate / Road House / The Truth vs Alex Jones / The Program / You’ll Never Find Me”
2024 TV & Movie Reviews: True Detective: Night Country / The Taste of Things / How to Have Sex / Suitable Flesh / The Doom Generation / Lover Stalker Killer
Just Bs and Cs this week. True Detective: Night Country I had reasonably high expectations for a series starring Jodie Foster, produced by Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins, and written and directed by talented filmmaker Issa López (Tigers Are Not Afraid). The biggest detractor for me was that Night Country was sporting the True Detective brand, which hasn’t meant much since the first and best seasonContinue reading “2024 TV & Movie Reviews: True Detective: Night Country / The Taste of Things / How to Have Sex / Suitable Flesh / The Doom Generation / Lover Stalker Killer”
Margetis Movie Reviews 