Reviews by Linda

• September 20, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

There is an outstanding opening sequence that has astronaut/space-antenna worker Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) tumbling ass-over-teakettle from tens of thousands of feet above the earth as the antenna explodes in a catastrophic accident. Turns out the antenna wasn’t the only thing that suddenly failed; mysterious pulses from outer space...

• August 30, 2019
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Falling somewhere between the quality of the modern Planet of the Apes trilogy (very good) and the latest King Kong film (poo), the reimagined Godzilla films are yet another reboot that we may not have asked for, but kind of enjoy anyway. It’s been five years in movie time...

• August 29, 2019
• At Home, Comedy

Brittany (Jillian Bell) is a 27-year-old party girl in New York, who sleeps half the day, has one of those jobs (ticket taker at a theater) where is in unclear to the viewer how she pays the rent. She is also the self-demeaning overweight “funny friend” that her pals...

• August 23, 2019
• At Home, Drama

I can count on single digits how many mentally or physically disabled actors I’ve seen in major film or television productions, so it is always refreshing to see a new face like Zack Gottsagen get a major role. Like his character (also named Zack), Gottsagen has Down Syndrome. And...

• July 19, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

This “true story based on an actual lie” is a lovely, very personal film written and directed by Chinese-American Lulu Wang. Based on an incident involving her own grandmother, Wang centers the story around a young woman named Billi, played by the fabulously talented Awkwafina (who absolutely stole all...

• July 9, 2019
• At Home, Horror

While watching the remake of Pet Sematary, I found myself thinking, “Was the original movie as bad as this? Or maybe the source material is terrible, and I just don’t quite remember…” After all, it pretty much has every Stephen King trope covered, from creepy woods to scary sounds...

• July 2, 2019
• Action, At Home, Fantasy

It’s hard to catch lightning in a bottle twice, and we all know that they have tried again (and again) with Spider-Man reboots. Any regular reader knows that I suffer from superhero burnout, having soldiered through all, yes, ALL of the Marvel movies to try to untangle and understand...

• July 1, 2019
• At Home, Drama

Politically, there were winners at the end of the war, but on the human level, there was so much lost on all sides. British housewife Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) is joining her officer husband Lewis (Jason Clarke) in Hamburg, Germany. It’s 1945, not too long after Germany’s surrender, and...

• June 18, 2019
• At Home, Horror

The opening scene flashes back to 1986. Young Adelaide is on a family trip to the beach, and she wanders away from the boardwalk excitement into a funhouse with a hall of mirrors. In a terrifying moment, she comes face to face with her own doppelgänger and we find...

• June 18, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

In 2008, the bustling city of Mumbai, India was attached in a coordinated effort by a group of Pakistani terrorists that hit 12 targets throughout the city, ultimately killing at least 174 people. Four of the gunmen went to the luxurious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, and Hotel Mumbai is...

• June 14, 2019
• At Home, Documentary

When “gay cancer” started spreading in the early 1980s, so little was known about it, that it was not only terrifying to the gay community that it seemed to be exclusively targeting, but it was terrifying to hospitals and care givers as well. Those on the front lines of...

• June 4, 2019
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

We all know that Julianne Moore is gorgeous. She’s strangely ageless with her flawless skin and excellent facial structure. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen her so… luminous as she is in Gloria Bell. Playing the titular character, Moore is marvelously warm and magnetic, and even if the...