The Blackening (2023) - Movie Review

After striking out three times in a row with the Ride Along movies, Shaft, and Tom & Jerry, I can’t say I was looking forward to what director Tim Story was going to make next. Hell, I probably would’ve just missed it entirely, as I plan on doing with his other film from this year, Dashing Through The Snow (not enough reviews left in the year to devote time to intentionally disposable Christmas fluff). Then I started hearing… good things about it? Like, not since Barbershop has the man’s work garnered this much praise and success. And considering this is the same year that got critics to turn around on Saw, I figured it was worth giving the guy another chance in this instance, and frankly, I’m glad I did.

All My Life (2020) - Movie Review

As someone who holds no qualms about giving their personal, don’t-care-what’s-affecting-it perspective about whatever movie they just happened to see, you’d think that being emotionally compromised wouldn’t be an issue. And yet, I must be honest once again and admit that I got really worked up while watching this. To the point where I think I metamorphosed into one of those rom-com clichés that I take great joy out of roasting, feeling so over-emotional in response to what I’m experiencing that I had to immediately tell my boyfriend how much I love them in my usually verbose fashion. With how often I rail against the tropes of the genre, I’m quite surprised that this managed to affect that much, especially since it’s not really anything all that nuanced or revolutionary.

Unsane (2018) - Movie Review

 

There’s a specific type of discomfort that comes out of watching a film like this. It’s the discomfort in knowing when someone is actually telling the truth but everyone else insists that they’re not. The feeling that makes you want to put your hands through the screen into the film’s reality and just start yelling that this person is right, that things are happening to them, or at the very least give assurance that they’re aren’t as crazy as everyone wants that person to believe.