VOD Review – La Flamme Rouge

Director: The Maze Brothers Screenplay: The Maze Brothers Minutes: 94  Year: 2021  Score: 6.875  Release: VOD After finishing this film, and considering what to say, I felt that I needed to first decide on a proper budget for how many times I could mention David Lynch. La Flamme Rouge is the story of Rick Van […]

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4k REVIEW – NOBODY – Uphe

Director: Ilya Naishuller Screenplay: Derek Kolstad Minutes: 92 Year: 2021 Score: 7.47  Release: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 4k Much like Ilya Naishuller delightful new film NOBODY let’s just cut to the chase. This is an exciting and needlessly violent film. From UPHE.com: Hutch is a nobody. As an overlooked and underestimated father and husband, he […]

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VOD Review – Jakob’s Wife

Jakob’s Wife Director: Travis Stevens Screenplay: Kathy Charles, Mark Steensland, Travis Stevens Minutes: 98 Year: 2021 Score: 8.27 Release: Amazon Prime Video I would like to claim that the trailer for Jakob’s Wife is what sold me on the film, but that would be a lie. I saw something that said Barbara Crampt… and I […]

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Streaming Review – Lucky

Director: Natasha Kermani Screenplay: Brea Grant Year: 2020 Running time: 83 minutes Score: 7.93 Release: Shudder Listen, I know this really isn’t the same thing, so forgive me. When I was in high school and recently licensed to drive, I was tooling between destinations one beautiful Friday afternoon. The cause is irrelevant, but I crashed […]

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Top 15 Releases of 2020

Hello again. As this year of malfeasance wobbles to an end, it is time again for the Film Ruminations Top 15 Home Video Releases of 2020. As with all years, I must start with the caveat that I have not experienced every release. I have no interest in doing so. If you want to check […]

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Getting Into Knives

A few weeks ago, I mentioned The Mountain Goats were gearing up to release a new album. If I could easily see my streaming statistics, I could tell you that I have listened to the record about a hundred times. That is not to mention all the times I have dropped the stylus on sides […]

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