Joe Humphrey

Backrooms: Round Two

A review of the movie Backrooms

Disclosure Day

I never thought I'd be saying this, but the new Spielberg alien movie kinda sucks. I'm a Spielberg guy. I'm usually on board with whatever he's doing, most of the time. Less so recently, but still, I always want to know what

Dead Man's Bones and Alice

Hello again, I needed something delightful today so I pulled up this classic. If you're not familiar with Ryan Gosling's sweet ass band Dead Man's Bones, then I hope you're ready to feel absolutely tickled. I recommend the whole album. It'

Masters of the Universe and Gut Feeling

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Okay, listen, full disclosure, I am 100% in the crosshairs of this target audience. I'm a neurodivergent kid of the 80s who's now in my 40s and still buys toys and shit. I'm the guy this movie was made for.

Pressure, The Life I Lead

So a guy I've never heard of named Anthony Maras directed a movie about Dwight D. Eisenhower and the meteorological preparations for D-Day. In it, Brendan Fraser plays Eisenhower and Andrew Scott plays James Stagg, a Scottish meteorologist, who is apparently the best damned weatherman on that

BACKROOMS

wtf

The Mandalorian and Grogu, More Apocalypstick, and The Life I Lead

THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU Okay, so I was a Star Wars kid. I liked both Star Trek, and Star Wars, but honestly, Star Wars was more exciting. Trek was a soap opera and kind of procedural to me. Star Wars was adventure. It was unpredictable, and it felt like the

Obsession Round 2, Vonnegut, and Apocalypstick

Went and saw Obsession again today and it was even better the second time around. I picked up on a lot more little crumbs and nuanced details. It's the best movie of the year, with The Bone Temple coming in a close second. I'm not even