It is safe to say that 2020 has been kind of a bummer in the cinematic world. With Covid-19 closing down all movie theaters and delaying a lot of the hotly anticipated movies to later in the year or even next year, there hasn’t been to really look forward to. Though we have gotten some gems throughout the year, the only movies that we have been able to view since March…
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The first half of 2020 is over and needless to say, this was a one weird year. Thanks to COVID-19, movie theaters have been shutdown in the U.S. since mid-March, which has caused a number of movies to change release dates, some coming out later this year (hopefully) and others pushing their release dates to 2021. Most of the new releases this year have been smaller independent films released directly to video-on-demand, which has made…
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Here are my picks for the best movies coming to Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, Criterion Channel, and HBOMax in July, all of which offer up some incredible titles. NETFLIX Full list of everything coming to Netflix in July can be found here. AIRPLANE! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, 1980) An iconic comedy that still holds up 40-years later. BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm, 1993)…
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At the end of May, HBOMax launched and really elevated the streaming services to a new level. Along with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and the Criterion Channel, HBOMax is another streaming service that is loaded with infinite content. Even with so many streaming services, the quality of content coming to streaming is possibly the best I’ve seen in a long, long time. Some true classics will be available for viewing, along with some fun…
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Throughout the 2020 Chattanooga Film Festival I saw a number of good films that were unique in their styling and what they were about. However, I had been missing that one movie that really blew me away. The kind of movie that I would remember for the rest of 2020 and the movie I would humbly brag to friends and fellow critics that I saw it. Luckily, after nearly a…
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Attack of the Demons is like The Evil Dead by way of South Park. An absurd, funny, violent animated horror film made out of what looks like stop-motion construction paper. It’s an absolute blast and one of the best films I saw at the 2020 Chattanooga Film Festival. The year is 1994 and in the small town of Barrington, Colorado it is the 10th annual Halloween Festival, a night where the entire town…
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Eat Brains Love is an absurdly silly zombie movie with a lot of cool ideas. At times it felt like the film was trying to subvert the zombie genre as a whole. At other times, the film had ideas that felt forced and underdeveloped. The result is an enjoyable mixed bag. Jake (Jake Cannavale) is an uninspired stoner barely making it through high school. Amanda (Angelique Rivera) is one of the…
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The Beach House is a horror movie that puts us right in the characters shoes. A horror movie that only reveals what is happening when the characters discover what is happening. It’s creepy, it’s eerie, and it’s constantly suspenseful as we try to figure out what is happening before our characters do. How good these kind of movies are depends on how good the finale is. Was the final reveal worth…
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The Wave is like The Hangover mixed with Crank on psychedelic drugs. A movie about trying to figure out how and why things happened and how and why things are happening. There were about a dozen times while watching this movie where I audibly asked, “what the hell is going on?” There’s never a dull moment here and I was hooked the entire time. Insurance lawyer Frank (Justin Long) is a working stiff living…
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Jumbo is based on a true story about a woman who falls in love with a tilt-a-whirl ride at the amusement park she works at. Sounds like a rather absurd concept that should belong in the same category as Quentin Dupieux’s 2010 absurd horror-comedy, Rubber, which looks at a tire that kills people through telepathy. But writer/director Zoé Wittock didn’t want to make an absurd comedy. She was focused on making an…
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