Obi-Wan Kenobi, the first step into a . . . larger world?
I do not step into a new Star [...]
Comedy
Emergency (2022)
It would not surprise me if Carey Williams’ Emergency somehow found itself among the year’s Best Picture nominees next January. I know, I know. That’s a bold statement, but I want to make sure that I’m not misunderstood. It’s not that I think that Emergency is a grand achievement or anything. I think its a very good film […]
Senior Year (2022)
Netflix’s Senior Year is an annoying hi-concept comedy that takes a potentially interesting premise and waterlogs it with bad sitcom-style writing. An overcaffeinated 12-year-old could have written this. The subject in question is what happens when a high school senior gets into an accident, slips into a coma and wakes up 20 years later suddenly […]
Stanleyville (2022)
What are the limits of your human instinct for greed? How far would you go for a nuclear-orange compact sport utility vehicle? Would you be willing to write an entire national anthem in just 2 hours? Create a bit of technology? Could you blow up a lot of balloons in under a minute? How about […]
Marvelous and the Black Hole (2022)
Marvelous and the Black Hole is the most harmless movie that I’ve seen in a while. I was in a good mood watching it, and maybe that helped. Were I in a sour mood, it’s cuteness might have been galling. Given the right mood, it is one of those little movies that you just want to […]
Chariot (2022)
There is a line in Chariot that I think pretty much sums up the entirety of the film: “Surely, it had to mean something.” When the movie was over, this is what was on my mind. Chariot is a strange comedy blending science fiction and reincarnation with a lot of really fun and unique things strewn about, but […]
Win a Trip to Browntown (2022)
My dear reader, I come before you with a confession. I watched comedy Win a Trip to Browntown! . . . but I never finished it. I couldn’t. Life is short. I’ve got things to do. I stopped at about a buck-five with still 28 minutes left on the running time but there was a […]
7 Days (2022)
7 Days is a lovely romantic comedy that values its subject matter and pulls the blinders off of a tradition that most of us westerners are hard-wired to consider somewhat prehistoric. The subject: Arranged marriages, a phrase that, with a knee-jerk reaction, makes you think of child brides, patriarchal tyranny and mandated unions based on […]
8-Bit Christmas (2021)
Beyond my old standards, I guess I’ve reached the point at which I’ve stopped looking for the next big Christmas classic – that movie that will couch itself among my annual perennials like It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street and Elf and A Christmas Story and even Die Hard. You can’t force […]
