From The Rental Queue

Short reviews of content rented or streamed from Netflix, mostly formatted for 140 characters.

Thursday, December 14, 2017

The Marine 5: Battleground

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The Miz is back again as Jake Carter, the poor beleaguered ex-Marine who can't seem to find a job where people aren't shooting at hi...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

A Serbian Film

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I couldn't find this very controversial film at Netflix, or on any mainstream platform, but I was able to finally seek it out and watch ...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

Gerald's Game

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I don't remember this book well, but I do remember thinking it was certainly one of King's weaker offerings. When I saw Netflix had ...
Friday, December 8, 2017

The Attack

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This Arabic drama manages to tell a very nuanced story about a incendiary topic, which is not an easy thing to do these days. We the viewers...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Dark Was the Night

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So here's the big problem with this movie. It's set in a northern town that sits at the southern end of a great big huge forest. Nea...

Woodshock

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This first film from Kate and  Laura Mulleavy is one of the most ambitious directorial debuts I've even seen. These women held nothing b...
Monday, November 20, 2017

The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear

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First thing - this is NOT a movie for children. It's very very dark for the most part with a lot of death in it. However, it's also ...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Shrek 2

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I saw the first "Shrek" a couple of months ago but didn't write it up at the time due to a massive migraine. I had liked it, f...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Mouchette

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I have heard it said about the films of Robert Bresson that you'll either love them or hate them. I'd didn't hate this, but I re...

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

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I don't know how I've never seen or heard of this film before. I'm frankly not even sure how it got on my queue, but boy, was th...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

The Glass Castle

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I remember reading this memoir when it came out and being incredibly moved by it. When I saw they were making it into a film I was leery, bu...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Beatriz at Dinner

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I'm not sure what to make of this film. I have to say at the outset that Salma Hayek was just phenomenal in this, and the rest of the ca...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Sing

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Okay, I straight up loved this. There was nothing about this feel-good film I didn't love. I cannot say anything bad about it, honestly....
Friday, October 27, 2017

The Collection

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I only recent saw "The Collector" and was impressed by it quite a bit. I was interested to see if the sequel would live up to the ...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

The Collector

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If I'm being very honest, this is pure torture-porn with a premise I've seen before. However, this is some of the best high-violence...
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