Category: quirky

  • Movie Review: “Fingernails”

    Movie Review: “Fingernails”

    Couples who want to know if their love is true (and two sided) can go to the Love Institute, have a fingernail ripped off a finger (with all the pain that goes with that process), and have those fingernails tested to see if they are indeed in love. The results of the test are in…

  • Movie Review: “The Layover”

    Movie Review: “The Layover”

    It’s been a tough day! High School English teacher, Kate (Alexandra Daddario), lets one of her students read from a manga book with the principal watching. The book is sexual in nature and Kate is asked to resign. Ooops. Meg (Kate Upton) is on a sales call trying to get her new line of cosmetics…

  • Movie Review: “Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose”

    Movie Review: “Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose”

    Nandor Fodor (Simon Pegg) was a paranormal psychologist back in the 1930’s. He was quite famous and, although he was a true believer at the start of his career, he became a skeptic later on. This movie is based in his skeptic years, or is the start of his skeptic years. Eventually, Nandor believed that…

  • Movie Review: “No Hard Feelings”

    Movie Review: “No Hard Feelings”

    Caution this review and video are R rated. Maddie Barker (Jennifer Lawrence) inherited the house she grew up in when her mother passed away. The house is free and clear, but, Maddie needs to work extra hard during the summer rush (as an Uber driver and bartender) to pay the taxes…..which she is currently behind…

  • Movie Review: “The Storied Life of AJ Fikry”

    Movie Review: “The Storied Life of AJ Fikry”

    A.J. Fikry’s (Kunal Nayyar) wife passed away a year ago. Since then, AJ has been drowning his sorrows in booze and letting his beautiful little bookstore go to crap. The new sales representative for a book publisher, Amelia (Lucy Hale), has to travel 5 hours to get to AJ’s Alice Island bookstore. On her first…

  • Movie Review: “Rams”

    Movie Review: “Rams”

    In Australian sheep country, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton) are brothers living next to each other, but…..have not spoken to each other in 40 years. They are both sheep ranchers and each has a prize winning ram to show at the county fair. After the winner is chosen, Colin notices some symptoms of…

  • Movie Review: “Easy A”

    Movie Review: “Easy A”

    Olive (Emma Stone) is a quiet student that hardly anyone knows and virtually no one sees. One day Brandon (Dan Byrd), who is being harrassed in school for being gay, asks her if he could pay her to fake hookup with her. After a quick negotiation, Olive and Brandon do their fake hookup at a…

  • Movie Review: “The Portable Door”

    Movie Review: “The Portable Door”

    Paul Carpenter (Patrick Gibson) is out of work and looking for a job. On his way to an interview, he meets a stranger who claims to know him….he does not, but, that meeting is sufficient to make Paul lose his place in line. Now at the end of a very long line, a stray dog…

  • Movie Review: “Always Woodstock”

    Movie Review: “Always Woodstock”

    Catherine Brown (Allison Miller) works at a music studio. She aspires to be a singer / songwriter, but, is only wrangling a spoiled superstar. She is not happy. In addition to her work, Catherine found her boyfriend of 10 years in the shower with someone else! Yikes! Remembering what her late father said to her:…