Fast Film Reviews

Rating 6/10 The Allied invasion of Normandy is one of the most famous military operations ever undertaken.  June 6, 1944, is a date etched into history.  The Allies land on the beaches. The war’s turning point arrives. The challenge for this narrative is persuading us that any of it was ever in doubt. That is […]

Rating 7/10 Long before it became a movie, Backrooms originated from the internet’s preoccupation with “liminal spaces.” Users began sharing photographs of normally crowded areas, like malls, school hallways, and office buildings, that became strangely anxiety-inducing when deserted.  These pictures weren’t traditionally frightening, but they evoked a pec...

Rating 7/10 There is something comical about an anti-capitalist critique being sold as entertainment that demands you purchase a ticket within the very system it wants to indict.  But that contradiction is also part of the surreality.  Director Boots Riley has given us a work too gleefully ridiculous to be received as a solemn manifesto. […]

Rating 5/10 I’m old school.  When I see The Mandalorian and Grogu, my brain translates that as “Boba Fett and Baby Yoda.” Not the same, but adjacent to those characters.  For the uninitiated, Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal), aka the Mandalorian, comes from the same armored bounty-hunter tradition that made Boba Fett one of the coolest-looking […]

Rating 7/10 Obsession is a remarkably self-assured little horror picture, made on a shoestring, but it never looks cheap.  Yet one element kept me from fully accepting the premise: its lead protagonist does not behave like a normal person.  That may sound like a small complaint in a movie involving supernatural forces. Still, it becomes […]