Moose And The Movies

I went 31-for-31 in January -- 31 movies in 31 days. Nine of them were rewatches, which I wrote about here . The rest were movies I saw for the first time, most all of them streaming on Prime Video. I bought a subscription early in the month to see Abigail, which I had heard so much about. So while I was there, I decided to pick off as many watchlist entries as possible before my subscription expires I have a few more days and movies on my Prime watchlist. I'll finish that up soon and move on, back to Paramount+ and my still-growing disc collection. In the meantime, here are my first-watches from last month, ranked bottom to top: 22. Dead End, 2003, directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa, streamed on Prime Video, 0.5 star. This is the worst movie I've watched in quite awhile. It fails as comedy, it fails as horror, it fails as mystery, it fails completely. It earns a half-star because it's the minimum rating on Letterboxd. 21. The Calendar Killer, 2025, directe...

Freeway, 1996, directed by Matthew Bright, streamed on Prime Video, 3 stars. Man, this movie started out great. Reese Witherspoon as an abandoned teen-ager on the run to avoid getting tossed back into the foster-care system, and Kiefer Sutherland as the suspected pedophile serial killer who gives her a ride. This was setting up as a banger of a road-trip movie with these two brilliant performers jumping off the screen. But that scenario abruptly played itself out about 30 minutes in, and this film went completely off the rails. It became this weird unfocused mishmash of dark comedy and satirical procedural drama for about an hour before it ran completely out of gas as it limped into the closing scene. Witherspoon is the reason to watch this movie. She was 19 years old at the time of filming, and she was brilliant. She made the first half of this movie intriguing and the second half endurable. Sutherland provided a great foil when the two were onscreen together. Unfortunately, that didn...