I wasn't the intended audience for The Napa Boys anyway, but this is a textbook case of dismal elder-millennial irony-poisoned comedy. It's full of inside-jokes to some podcast, I am told, and then the plot structure is just 'cute' references to generationally iconic movies. Even all the japes and gags are just references to late 90s, early 00s comedies, most of which are awful and regrettable to begin with. The joke almost every time is: "Remember this? Jeez that was…

I was going to just leave a two-word pun comment of "Indiana Tomes" since I was pleased with having come up with it while enduring this, but that would imply this was some kind of playful fun to experience where a warning-off is not called for. That's not the case. The Librarian: Quest for the Spear was instead quite unpleasant and made more annoying still by the fact that it should in principle be the kind of slop I would…

This is very run-of-the-mill defector industry pablum that will persuade only the most uncultivated and intellectually cowardly western sensibilities - it peddles the usual anti-communist tropes approved by the US State Department that you have come to expect (if you are a non-sinophobic person with any dialectical clarity at all). If you skim through the list of producers you will find that several of them have produced a number of other equally pathetic red-scare propaganda pieces which are equally ahistorical…

I Swear is more of a PSA than a feature film, and it's not as informative as it should be in that context. While not as sleazy or corny as some other examples of this unfortunately expansive category, like Sean Penn in I am Sam, Cuba Gooding Jr. in Radio, Rosie O'Donnell in Riding the Bus with My Sister, Sia's Music, or Jamie Foxx in The Soloist, it still follows the minstrel formula of awards bait where a neurotypical actor…