Ghost Killer
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2024 | From the same director, fight choreographer, and one star of the Baby Assassins franchise, which I love. An absurd setup that leads to…
The Rule of Jenny Pen
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2024 | The acting was excellent. As you would expect from Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow. And the director’s style was interesting—good composition in many…
The Hidden Web
| B | Austin Film Festival 2023 | An engaging mystery. It seemed slow at times, but paid off with the twists and the gruesome depiction of the crimes underneath…
Don’t Tell Larry
| B | Austin Film Festival 2023 | A funny farce that keeps throwing obstacle after obstacle at the protagonists. Several times I was thinking, “Whew, they solved that prob—wait,…
Bolt From The Blue
| C | Austin Film Festival 2023 | During their brief introduction, the writer/director and the producer told us this was a family friendly movie. Unfortunately that seems to mean…
Sunlight
| B | Austin Film Festival 2023 | I enjoyed this interesting examination of friendship and preparing for death. The premise comes with conflict built in—one friend is ill and…
Grapefruit
| B | Austin Film Festival | Honestly, I was very tired and falling asleep during part of this movie. Not the movie's fault at all—just film festival exhaustion setting…
The Secret Art Of Human Flight
| B | Austin Film Festival 2023 | A funny meditation on grief and working through it. It reminded me of Safety Not Guaranteed (which the star/producer referenced in the…
Christmess
| B- | Austin Film Festival 2023 | A “slice of an alcoholic’s life” movie. Showed me a side of life I (hope I) will never see. Nice script with…
Last Straw
| D | Austin Film Festival | I’m not sure why this film was made. I don’t go to a lot of movies in this “lone woman against psychos” genre,…