Moose And The Movies

The Little Hours, 2017, directed by Jeff Baena, streamed on Prime Video, 4 stars. OK. This is the second time in a couple of weeks I stumbled across a Jeff Baena/Aubrey Plaza collaboration, and the second time I spent the better part of 90 minutes giggling like a schoolgirl. This movie was funny. Odd, because I would never have thought I would find anything at all amusing about nuns in a 14th-century convent. But I could not stop with the giggling. Here's the deal: The supervising priest (John C. Reilly), the mother superior (Molly Shannon) and the community of sisters (Plaza, Alison Brie and Kate Micucci the three central characters) at this medieval nunnery spend much of their time doing unsanctioned things to, for and with each other. And in everything they do, they act and speak as if they grew up about six centuries later. Everybody brings 20th- and 21st-century sensibilities and attitudes to the party. The whole scenario is weirdly off-balance, the source of much of the sly h...

I watched eight movies for the first time from Jan. 15-23. Here is how I rank them, from least favorite to favorite. 8. Dead End, 2003, directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa, streamed on Prime Video, 0.5 star. Mercy, did I ever dislike this one. Opening scene is a family traveling in a car bickering and attacking each other over dumb shit. I hated all five of them from the top, and it continued for several minutes. I ended up spending about 82 minutes hate-watching this 85-minute film. And I spent a good 70 minutes of that trying to figure out what this film was trying to be before I figured out where it probably was going. Absolutely nothing here worked for me. Even the predictable ending, which did sort of tie everything together, missed the mark. I'm not going to waste any more time on this one. You shouldn't, either. 7. Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, 1974, directed by John Hough, streamed on Prime Video, 1 star. This is not the worst movie I saw this month. I enjoye...