I'm Not There

  Julie, get your white as death-chalky ass corpse in the car- now.   We end this year's festival the same way we began, with a teenage female centric coming of age film from the late 90's.  Coincidentally, both films also star the two breakout stars of the 90's show Party of Five which I never watched because at the time, the testosterone in my body would not allow me to be interested in such things. Back in 1997, the main reason I wanted to watch   I Know What You Did Last Summer was because of Sarah Michelle Gellar who I had the biggest crush on because she was so pretty and badass on  Buffy.   I remember thinking that the movie was ok but nothing really memorable.  I did notice all the gratuitous shots of  J-Love's cleavage but I couldn't care less because Sarah. Watching this in 2021, the movie feels dated and I notice now flaws that I did not notice as much back then.  If I was asked  to describe the dialogue between the ...

  Winners Only.  Bingo Hell is a random movie I saw while browsing the Amazon Prime horror section. I wondered how Amazon Studios and Blumhouse were going to make a horror movie about bingo. Even more interesting, I saw the protagonist Lupita was played by Adriana Barraza who I have only seen in Amores Perros.   What followed was an hour and twenty-five minutes of entertaining and inclusive storytelling that is fun but doesn't clearly answer an important question: What the hell is going on here? When we think of bingo we typically think of the trope of the senior citizens who are eager to sit down and play.  This movie deliverers on that to the degree that most of the characters are senior citizens, not Cocoon  old but still AARP members.  The characters are interesting, funny, brave and most importantly a family. They live in the town of Oak Springs which has primarily Black and Brown people with a sprinkling of Caucasian.  They all live together and ...

  Evil Dies Tonight! *Unrelated Note: Before starting to write the below, I was googling pictures of the new Michael Myers mask because it is now my favorite Michael Myers look and I stumbled upon this . You're welcome.  There us no way to talk about   Halloween Kills without spoiling it and it's two Halloween prequels so take this as a SPOILER ALERT   which I wish other outlets had done instead of assuming everyone watches movies the very weekend they are released.  more and more each day I realize I hate people and if I could set Michael Myers loose on shitty online "reporting" I absolutely would. The Michael Myers in this movie would love it because the body count in this movie is very high. To think in 1978 he killed 3 people and 40 years later its almost nine times as high. This is really going to make Halloween Ends  a very intense revenge/redemption story. If I was a big geek I would tell you that I watched this movie at the drive-in and what a...

  Rest...in..Peace Escape the Undertaker  is a fun interactive story on Netflix where the viewer can decide how they want the story to progress through a series of choices with their remote.  Netflix has done these types of stories before, the last one I can remember was Bandersnatch  an episode of the popular Black Mirror   series.  They also did a   Carmen Sandiego   episode but I didn't watch that because I'm not a child.  Fine, I didn't watch it because I didn't know it was out until a couple minutes ago when I was doing research for this post.  Regardless,   Escape the Undertaker   is a fun little movie that took me about half an hour to complete based on my choices.  Try it out. The story deals with   The New Day   consisting of Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston and Big E as they try to borrow the Undertaker's urn in order to combine it's power with the power of positivity and b...