Review – Rabid (2019)

This started out looking like a loving tribute to the original. Though clearly a creature of the 21st century, it had some of Cronenberg’s look and feel to it. Alas, it swiftly descended into the realm of cheap, unnecessary remake. See if desperate

Review – Brahms: The Boy 2

I actually liked this one better than the first one. It’s more of a straight supernatural tale, so it spends much less time on what’s-really-going-on plot twists. To be sure, this isn’t a rewarding experience. But it isn’t a demanding one either. Mildly amusing

Review – Class Action Park

The folks who made this documentary have a truly excellent sense of how to tell an emotional story. The story of Action Park – a popular attraction in New Jersey back in the 1980s – begins by diving right into the sheer craziness of an entire amusement park designed not by safety-conscious engineers but by adults and teens possessed by a spirit of “wouldn’t it be cool if?” The sheer absurdity of this exercise in anarchy is hysterical; more than once I had to stop the movie so I could let my laughter die down and regain control of my breathing. But then toward the end we get a grim reminder of the serious and permanent damage done to many park visitors as well as the arrogant refusal of the park’s owner to take any kind of responsibility for the suffering he caused. Buy the movie