Triple Fisher: The Lethal Lolitas of Long Island
| B | Fantastic Fest 2020 | I'm the kind of guy who sometimes will find movies and their remakes and watch them all within a few days. So I…
The Boy Behind the Door
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2020 | Generally a good movie about young boys trying to outsmart adult kidnappers. Personally, I thought there were too many plot beats that conveniently…
Action USA
| C | Fantastic Fest 2020 | Context is everything. I had no context going into this movie. And came out thinking the script sucked, with cardboard characters and almost…
Teddy
| D | Fantastic Fest 2020 | And Celebration of Fantastic Fest is off to a rocky start. Yes, this was a different werewolf movie. But not in many good…
The Honeymoon Phase
| D | Other Worlds Austin 2019 | Muddled. Too much going on. Too much not quite explained. Too much unbelievable behavior from the lead female character. Too much unbelievable…
After We Leave
| B | Other Worlds Austin 2019 | This film was very much a mixed bag. Some marvelous imagery like in the trailer, followed by boring direction (close-up on each…
Dead Dicks
| B | Other Worlds Austin 2019 | I had hoped Dicks = detectives, but it meant Richards. Still, an interesting and engrossing film with weird things happening and nice…
Dementer
| D | Other Worlds Austin 2019 | Sorry, not my cup of tea. Nice that the director got to use his special needs sister in a film, but half…
Just Mercy
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2019 | Good film, well worth the time. It didn’t feel like a message film to me (though it apparently had one)—just felt like…
Ford v Ferrari
| A | Austin Film Festival 2019 | The first studio film I’ve seen at the festival this year, and it was really good! Excellent acting, of course. Interesting drama…