Category Archives: Movies T-V

Movies I’ve Seen during the Pandemic, part iii

Posted on March 26, 2020 by frothy

Creepy (NR, 2016, ***). This Japanese thriller is about a retired detective who looks into a case involving a family that completely disappeared – but left their youngest child. Huh. Little does Det. Takakura know how close to home this … Continue reading →

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Movies I’ve Seen During the Pandemic, Part 2

Posted on March 25, 2020 by frothy

Crawl (R, 2019, ***). Are you afraid of alligators? Stay away from this one. Haley, a collegiate swimmer, travels to southern Florida to check on her dad during a Category 5 hurricane (rather nonchalantly, I might add). Floods from the … Continue reading →

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Toy Story 4 (***, 2019)

Posted on August 7, 2019 by frothy

I enjoyed Toy Story 4, which is sort of like saying I like to breathe. It’s nigh impossible to dislike Pixar’s flagship series after 24 (!) years of laughs and heartstring-pulling. Now, along with most people I figured that Toy … Continue reading →

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Three…Extremes (**1/2, 2004)

Posted on July 26, 2019 by frothy

This anthology of three horror stories is a bit of a mixed bag. The first one concerns a middle-aged woman who buys special dumplings from a youthful (but aged) mystic, played by Bai Ling. The woman wants to look and … Continue reading →

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The Visitor (1979)

Posted on June 17, 2019 by frothy

The Visitor is like a dollar-store version of The Bad Seed or The Omen. A little girl has telekinetic powers, being a descendant of an evil guy named Zateen, and wishes to wreak havoc and get her mom knocked up … Continue reading →

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