I really liked Harold Ramis’ Groundhog Day (1993) though I always thought that the premise – guy realizes he’s caught in a time loop, seemingly unable to escape – was better suited to horror than comedy. Though it’s an idea that horror movies have used, such as Happy Death Day (2017) and others though none […]
I recently canceled by subscription to Hulu, mainly because between free Tubi, Netflix and Amazon it felt like a bit of an also-ran (I had the tier with commercials because even at that point the value proposition never quite worked for me). It goes without saying that literally the day I cancel my subscription I […]
I skipped Episode 2 – Three Robots and will get that up in a moment. In any case, The Witness is–for the most part–a clever play on Groundhog Day. The animation is also noteworthy in that, while CGI like the other episodes thus far, it’s more evident that it’s motion capture, which gives it this […]
I didn’t dislike Happy Death Day 2 U, though like the movie that begat it–the original Happy Death Day (2017)–it’s pretty inconsequential and fluffy. Though it’s fascinating not for what it does right, but more what it doesn’t: namely the introduction of parallel universes, an idea not present in the first (which dealt with a […]
I missed Happy Death Day because I thought it was, essentially, Groundhog Day with added violence: clever concept, weak execution. And the former was right, though the latter, apparently not so much because if reviews are anything to go by I apparently missed a pretty fun movie. So, eventually learning from my oversights, I got […]
I didn’t catch the original Happy Death Day though I thought that the idea–essentially Friday The 13th meets Groundhog Day–was pretty clever and a twist on the traditional slasher film formula. I didn’t surprise me that there would be a sequel, after all Blumhouse released the original movie and their whole modus operandi is making […]
“I thought I told you to mind your own business. You are a Busy Betty. And I don’t like Busy Betties.” –The Pale Man There’s a memorable scene in the first ‘Matrix’ film where Morpheus gives Neo the choice of taking the blue pill, which would mean that he could return to his everyday “life” […]
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