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• Movie Review: “Stalker” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on June 16, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  There can be no surprise with the movie “Stalker” that the tale is going to feature one individual stalking another. Can you possibly imagine the disappointment if there wasn’t? Why would you call it “Stalker,” what sense would it make?… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard”

  By Josh Lasser on June 15, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  To some extent, although perhaps not a very large one, “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” was grounded in reality. In my review of it, I noted that there was a moral question to the film that was intriguing – is it better… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Censor” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on June 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Taking viewers down the rabbit hole and convincing them that up is down, left is right, and back is front is not easy. Keeping folks guessing while still playing fair is no simple task. There is something to be said… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “In the Heights”

  By Josh Lasser on June 9, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the awful trends we’re getting these days in the media are the lazy “most ‘x’ since the pandemic” or “we finally have a reason to return to ‘y’ after the pandemic” articles. You’ve likely heard a lot of… Read More ›

• Getting to Know “Biomutant”

  By Josh Lasser on June 8, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Up today on the podcast we have the first of two planned installments on the video game, “Biomutant.”  A post-apocalyptic role-playing game, “Biomutant” allows you to wander about a destroyed version of our world as a… well, a kind of… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Super Frenchie”

  By Josh Lasser on June 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  What do you do with a movie whose outward appearance seems at odds with everything else it’s saying? You can admire its beauty or the characters it offers. You can be intrigued about any number of aspects, but you always… Read More ›

• “Super 8” and Super J.J.

  By Josh Lasser on June 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the arguments you may have heard against hte work of J.J. Abrams is that he’s always borrowing from something else, he’s always taking something that’s already been done, rejiggering it slightly, tossing in lens flare, and sending it… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Blue Miracle”

  By Josh Lasser on May 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  It would be easy, albeit cynical, to write a negative review of “Blue Miracle.” A family film, the movie is out on Netflix today and features Jimmy Gonzales as the operator of an orphanage for boys in Mexico as well… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “A Quiet Place Part II”

  By Josh Lasser on May 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In the first “A Quiet Place,” our intrepid protagonist family, the Abbotts, trod on paths of sand that had been carefully laid out on top of roads and other trails. The sand was there to muffle the sound of their… Read More ›

• “My Fair Lady” and the Last Minute Change

  By Josh Lasser on May 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  There is no doubt that “My Fair Lady” is a classic.  It is a great movie.  There is also no doubt that the ending… well, the ending may be its downfall.  Henry Higgins is a bad person throughout the film… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Dream Horse”

  By Josh Lasser on May 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Dream-horse-00197.tif From the very moment it starts, there can be no doubt how “Dream Horse” is going to end. I don’t mean the story itself—although that, too, is in no doubt—I mean the movie itself. It is an absolute certainty… Read More ›

• “Spiral,” “Army of the Dead,” and Movie Webs

  By Josh Lasser on May 18, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Although I regularly think of moviegoing as a near religious experience, another thought came into my mind recently — what if we looked at movies as akin to a spider’s web?  Surely you’ve had this happen to you before.  You… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Spiral: From the Book of Saw”

  By Josh Lasser on May 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The longer they continue, the less so many movie franchises have to offer. Filmmakers simply cannot keep doing the same things over and over again expecting the same amount of success – the law of diminishing returns sets in. The… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Army of the Dead” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on May 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  If nothing else, Zack Snyder’s multi-year campaign to get “his version” of “Justice League” released has pushed the auteur theory in concept if not in name. Although filmmaking is a collaborative process, at this moment in time it feels difficult… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Get Together” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on May 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  We have all heard certain phrases before and know exactly how to read between their lines – it’s not you, it’s me (it’s you); I really want to go, but I have to wash my hair (I wouldn’t be caught… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Riders of Justice”

  By Josh Lasser on May 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The desire to build order from chaos, to establish a reason why things happen and predict what will come next based on what has already occurred, is enticing to many (this reviewer certainly is counted amongst that group). Such a… Read More ›

• “Speed,” “Shrek,” and Greatness

  By Josh Lasser on May 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  We have recently seen “Speed” and “Shrek” arrive on 4K UHD.  These are both excellent films.  They were excellent when they first came out in theaters, and they’re still excellent today. One of the crucial things to note about both… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Oxygen” (2021)

  By Josh Lasser on May 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  You have, almost certainly, tried talking to a computer and the odds are pretty good that it didn’t go as smoothly as you wanted. Picture it, in making a phone call to a company, rather than getting a human being,… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Wrath of Man”

  By Josh Lasser on May 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  I have suggested before that one of the main questions that needs to be asked when a movie jumps around in time is if it would be remotely as interesting told in linear fashion; if moving around in time is… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Benny Loves You”

  By Josh Lasser on May 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Some movies answer very specific questions. One film might ask what would happen if an alien got left behind on this planet and was found by a young boy. Another film could tackle the question of why, precisely, you wouldn’t… Read More ›

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