Your Weekend Movie Guide for February 2022

 

This month, I am missing the epic Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles...a great place to see a classic movie.   Well, it's been closed since March 2020...COVID, you know.  But the good news is that Netflix purchased the building and is in the middle of restoring the place to even more grandeur.  Allegedly, it will reopen next year and Netflix promises that it will still unspool classic films on the weekends.

For the time being, we have the usual thread-bare cinemas from the likes of AMC and they are attempting to field a product that will get audiences off their couches and streaming services.   Good luck.   You know the monthly drill, gang.  I'll sift through the LA Times movie pages and give you my knee-jerk reaction to what's polluting their screens.  

Truly, the Egyptian re-opening can't happen soon enough.

Death on the Nile:   Blog review coming.  Whodunits don't necessarily work when they've been remade and you saw the original.

The Sky Is Everywhere:  A shy teenage musician copes after the death of her sister.  America's Got Grief.

The Worst Person in the World:  If this is produced by MSNBC, I would guess this is about Trump.

Licorice Pizza:   Still on my list to see.  I'm a sucker for anything 70s.

Drive My Car:   From Japan and it's on the nominee list for Best Picture and Best Foreign Film.  But it's three hours long, so beware.

West Side Story:  So Rita Moreno did not get a nomination.    Well, they tried.

Parallel Mothers:   I hear this is interesting.  But so are ant hills.

The Tragedy of Macbeth:   The tragedy is they put that shithead Denzel in this.

Moonfall:  The moon is going to collide with Earth.  My grandmother always said that landing there was going to be bad luck.

Belfast:   Got a slew of Oscar noms and it's actually one of the few movies I enjoyed this year.

Nightmare Alley:   One of the many nominated movies I did not enjoy this year.

The Power of the Dog:  And here's another one.

Flee:   What people are doing in most major cities.

King Richard:  Another acting enema from Will Smith who is dying to win an Oscar.  Having some talent might help.

Don't Look Up:  Reviewed here and you take the title of the movie literally.

Dog:  Unlike "Power of the Dog," this really has a dog in it.

Uncharted:  Mark Wahlberg and a host of others looking for treasure buried by Magellan.   The explorer, not the map.

Marry Me:   A rom com with J-Lo and without A-Rod.

Blacklight:  An action movie with Liam Neeson.   Isn't there like one of these every month?

The Cursed:  A horror movie set in 19th Century France.   Any movie set in France is a horror to me.

Finding Carlos:  The Nutcracker set to skateboarding and hip hop music.  Kill me now.

Too Cool to Kill:  A comedy from China.   Cameo appearance by Hunter Biden.

Dinner last night:  Leftover SPO.