The 21-Word Review: Joker: Folie a Deux (Netflix)

The reviews were not wrong. It feels like the creative team wanted to kill the Joker legend before it grew unmanageable.

The 21-Word Review: Wolfs (Apple)

There's a long history of movies where stars are just having a good time playing their stereotypes together for our enjoyment.

The 21-Word Review: Equalizer 3 (Netflix)

I've not seen the second. Maybe that's the one somewhat similar to the original series? Good enough Denzel movie, I guess.

The 21-Word Review: Swamp Story by Dave Barry

A bit darker than the usual Barry or Hiaasen romp, but still funny in that insane Florida (and not political) way.

The 21-Word Review: Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Answers a lot of questions about where trash and recycling does and doesn't go. I wish a scientist had written it.

The 21-Word Review: Wallace and Gromit : Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)

I watched it over the holidays with my kids. They are both PhD candidates. What's the point you're trying to make?

The 21-Word Review: Nosferatu

Phipps Plaza Theaters have really upped their game over the years. I'll have to return and see a better movie sometime.

The 21-Word Review: Days Like These by Brian Bilston

I diligently read a poem a day for all of 2024. (OK, I missed a few and had to catch up.)

The 21-Word Review: Lift (Netflix)

Kevin Hart's not a bad action movie star, it's just not what I expect. But ok - it's a decent heist movie.

The 21-Word Review: Subservience (Netflix)

Because of course if you make a robot to help with childcare while your wife is sick, you make Megan Fox.

The 21-Word Review: Predestination (Netflix)

Stuck in a hotel room while my son attends class in Boulder, I think the digital gods that Netflix was created.

The 21-Word Review: Slingshot (Delta)

When you fly a lot, sometimes you have to dig deep into the movie library and occasionally there are interesting nuggets buried.

The 21-Word Review: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Delta)

The producers must have seen Jenna Ortega and thought, "ok, finally we can make a sequel with a next generation Deetz."

The 21-Word Review: Gladiator II

No cinematic level of charisma will again match Russel and Juaquin, so a sequel was bound to pale somewhat in comparison.

The 21-Word Review: Fly Me to the Moon (Delta)

Scarlett is a national treasure that only gets better with age. And her character said she graduated from Georgia Tech. Perfect.

The 21-Word Review: Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

Following the disappointing movie, I needed to know more - and this massive biography fit the bill. One of history's true geniuses.

The 21-Word Review: Jumanji: The Next Level (Netflix)

In Japan, Netflix has a whole different and fascinating set of viewing options, but I watched this instead. And liked it.

The 21-Word Review: Hard Home (Delta)

I like an engineer girl boss protagonist as well as the next guy, but the revenge torture porn not so much.

The 21-Word Review: Breathe (Delta)

A movie based on the "I can't breathe" protest, but set in the future where people literally can't breathe doesn't work.

The 21-Word Review: 5 Nights at Freddie's (Delta)

Remember the old time monster movies that had misunderstood monsters, innocent children, and only mild violence? This is reminiscent of those.

The 21-Word Review: Red Rooms (Delta)

Once can more easily accept a supermodel, master hacker, professional poker playing protagonist in French, I suppose. Definitely not in English.

The 21-Word Review: Inside Out 2 (Delta)

Cute. Not as cute as the first one, but cute enough. Part 3 will add revenge, jealousy, prurience, self-loathing, and addiction.

The 21-Word Review: Longlegs (Delta)

From the hype, I expected Silence of the Lambs, not Omen vibes. And yes, I cheated by watching on a plane.

The 21-Word Review: Twisters (Delta)

Since I know very little about meteorology, this was a fun escape movie that I could mindlessly accept without scientific criticism.

The 21-Word Review: Borderlands (Delta)

Yet another video game adaptation, this time one I was not familiar with and had to ask my son to explain.