Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm Written and Directed by Brian Zemrak 2019 Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Footloose was a film made for toddlers with anthropomorphized animals including an owl voiced by Lost in Space’s June Lockhart and a human king voiced by horror mainstay Julian Sands? Well, […]
Read more "VOD Review – Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm"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 […]
Read more "VOD Review – La Flamme Rouge"Director: Edgar Wright Screenplay: Edgar Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns Minutes: 116 Year: 2021 Score: 9.53 Release: Theatrical Much like Ellie Turner, played by Thomasin McKenzie, I have not been able to shake the imagery from Edgar Wright’s LAST NIGHT IN SOHO. With my complicated film rating system, it is rare for a film to score […]
Read more "Theatrical Review – Last Night in Soho"Let’s not beat around the bush, as soon as there was a mention that a new album by the Mountain Goats was due it should have been expected that something about it would be written here. Three singles have been released so far, MOBILE, THE SLOW PARTS ON DEATH METAL ALBUMS, and most recently, DARK […]
Read more "Dark In Here, or a time machine to 50s westerns."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 […]
Read more "4k REVIEW – NOBODY – Uphe"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 […]
Read more "VOD Review – Jakob’s Wife"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 […]
Read more "Streaming Review – Lucky"Honest Thief Director: Mark Williams Screenplay: Mark Williams Minutes: 99 Year: 2020 Score: 6.47 Release: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. There was something off about Honest Thief and I have been searching for what that might be for more time than I ever wanted to. There are some decent action scenes, but most of which didn’t […]
Read more "Blu-ray Review – Honest Thief – UPHe"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 […]
Read more "Top 15 Releases of 2020"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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