Mini Movie Reviews Archives
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ESCAPE TO THE COVE – 5 Questions for Indie Filmmaker Robert Enriquez
Based on the premise it's easy to understand how Robert came up with the idea for Escape to the Cove during COVID-19 lockdown early in 2020. And was able to shoot many of the scenes which require a desolate Los Angeles, in LA when the streets were actually empty...
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Heartless America: BLUE BAYOU
Linda Ronstadt's version of the Roy Orbison classic "Blue Bayou" is still a song I don't mind hearing despite its over familiarity. Alicia Vikander singing it at a Vietnamese picnic, however, was completely unexpected, but enjoyable, never knew she sang...
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10 Things – SHANG-CHI and the Legend of the 10 Rings
I enjoyed the Kaiju and "Fantastic Beast" aspects (except maybe the thing with no face, Morris, was pandering a little too hard to the younger demographic). What Marvel does best is simmer down a large concept into the small and personal. Remove the criminal immortality of the Mandarin and the power of the 10 Rings, and basically the crux of the plot...
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Late Night, Backyard Screening: THE NIGHT HOUSE
I watched THE NIGHT HOUSE in my backyard, after 10pm, with only the light of the firepit to accompany the glow of my laptop screen, by myself, with no one else home. This was a terrible idea for someone like me who's a horror lightweight. If you're a regular reader of T&T, you know you'll rarely find me discussing a scary movie. I can do ghostly, eerie like Guillermo del Toro produced MAMA, or Nicole Kidman's classic, THE OTHERS or ...
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What Moment Would You Choose? – NINE DAYS
I know Winston Duke from his role as M'Baku in Black Panther/Infinity War, and as the Dad, complete with dad jokes, in Jordan Peele's US, but I don't remember feeling like his lips were particularly compelling, for some reason they are in this movie. I kept feeling like I wanted to kiss him and I'm not usually attracted to very full lips on a man...
