S warned me about
The Lighthouse, but there are a lot of movies that I enjoy which he does not. I thought this might be the case for this film, but it turns out that it was not. This is a slow, plodding, dull, overly indulgent film in which absolutely nothing happens. At least not as far as I watched it; I didn't finish it.
Sightseers was not my bag. The plot: a boyfriend and girlfriend head off on a road trip. In a fit of anger, the girlfriend kills the woman she caught kissing the boyfriend. It gets worse from there. It's best redeeming quality is the cute dog.
I like
Danny Glover, and
Waffle Street was okay. After the 2008 market crash, a former hedge fund manager, disgraced and looking for redemption, gets a job working the overnight shift at a chicken-and-waffles joint. It's on this list because S and I started watching it; we got about halfway in, looked at each other, and said, "I think I've seen this before." I think this is one of the curses of watching so many streaming movies. When movies were in theaters and you made a point to go see them, there were advertising posters and trailers on TV, they were harder to forget. This one, unfortunately, was sufficiently forgettable the first time that we had to start it again to know we had seen it already.
The Girl With All the Gifts started out promising, but it just turned into a weird zombie movie. Unless you're a zombie-genre completist, skip it.
Loads of smart TVs these days have some number of free channels, and when we were traveling recently we spent some time perusing the free channels at one of our hotels. We picked a rom-com called
No Postage Necessary, but it was so terrible and predictable that we abandoned the effort shortly after it began.
I'm perpetually looking for a good murder mystery, but
The Alpines wasn't one. That's all I've got for you there.
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