Supposedly a docu-drama about a "Bunny Man" terrorizing Fairfax, Virginia, with re-enactments and interviews with silly people who supposedly had encounters with this man, who wore a raggedy bunny suit and carried an ax. This almost plays like a parody. Especially hilarious is a woman from the historical society named Cindy, who asks "could this be the same man from 100 years ago -- it could be." Duh? Is she as dumb as a bucket of rocks? This is so bad it's embarrassing. The re-enactments aren't badly staged, but they amount to very little. All this does is prove how utterly gullible people can be -- and stupid! The people interviewed for this show are probably now embarrassed to go out in public, especially in Fairfax!
Reviews
7 Reviews
Tár
(2022)
Surprisingly homophobic
30 January 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This is an interesting but rather regressive study of a very successful female composer-conductor. The lead character is an open lesbian with a wife and daughter, but it's amazing to me that one of the few if only films with a strong lead gay character in a major Hollywood film implies, late -- very late -- in the movie that the conductor is "grooming" young women for sexual purposes. Even her wife seems to think she's guilty. The film is very well-acted, especially by Cate Blanchett, but the story meanders around and never quite comes to grips with its subject matter. What could have been a fascinating attack on cancel culture is instead turned into a homophobic and misogynous muddle.
Dated as can be
8 January 2023
This was shown on TV years before Stonewall and Gay Lib and is sort of a mini-version of TEA AND SYMPATHY. A man thinks he's homosexual because he doesn't act like his macho meathead brother. Haven't seen this in quite awhile but I don't believe the notion that there would be nothing wrong if he WAS gay is ever brought up. In that respect it's become terribly dated although probably in tune with attitudes of the time. The fifties and sixties -- this was 1963 -- were problematic times to deal even obliquely with the subject of homosexuality. The shrink assures the fellow that he's no homosexual but just a different sort of men, which isn't too helpful if the character was actually gay.
Goodnight Mommy
(2022)
Ending is simply stolen
8 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I have not seen the Austrian original and don't know if it has the same ending. This version is a perfectly good, well-acted and suspenseful, it only it doesn't steal the ending of the novel/film "The Other," which was written by Thomas Tryon and also made into a film back in the 70's. It has the exact same twist and even some similar sequences. Bah! But then it's rare that you find originality in modern-day movies or TV shows.
This is too bad because "Goodnight Mommy" is otherwise not a bad film with a fine performance by Naomi Watts and superb turns by those talented young Crovetti twins. But the big reveal at the end just made me groan!
This is too bad because "Goodnight Mommy" is otherwise not a bad film with a fine performance by Naomi Watts and superb turns by those talented young Crovetti twins. But the big reveal at the end just made me groan!
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(1999– )
Are all men monsters?
14 November 2021
Are all men monsters? You would think so from watching this show, which has deteriorated from a must-watch, suspenseful program into a predictable hour wherein you know even before you start watching that in a dispute between a man and a woman, the man is instantly guilty. Yes, in the real world, probably 8 or 9 times out of 10 the person raped or molested is telling the truth and the man IS guilty, but L&O SVU used to explore those gray areas and some of its most memorable episodes dealt with "victims" who had an agenda (the gay vocal coach accused of molesting little boys when their big sisters coached them out of revenge; the former basketball star accused of rape by women who turned out to be paid by his girlfriend's racist father). But although some of the recent episodes are well done enough, there are never any twists, and it's gotten worse since the #metoo movement. What's the point of watching when you know the outcome going in? Where are the fascinating "twisted" storylines of yesteryear? Mareska Hargitay is a fine actress and her Olivia is an interesting, often admirable character, but she acts as if she is ALWAYS RIGHT and I'm always afraid her face will get permanently stuck in that persistent smirk of hers. Hopefully 2021 - 22 will be the final year for this show and everyone can go on to something more interesting. You had a good run. Enough is enough.
Judy Justice
(2021– )
The Judge is back
8 November 2021
Judge Judy is back and there have been minor changes. Byrd, who really didn't add much to the show, is gone, and there's a new, friendlier bailiff that so far I have not seen much of. Judy has two young ladies on either side of her on the bench: her grand-daughter, a law clerk or student, who is little more than a bump on a log; and a court reporter who types away and once in a blue moon is asked to read something back that somebody said during testimony. Neither add a damn thing to the show. The program is entertaining if the case is interesting and deadly dull if it is not. Judy has more than enough money to support herself, her husband, her children, and all of her grandchildren for the rest of their lives and years beyond, so why doesn't the woman just retire?
The Kennedys on Law and Order
21 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
On previous episodes of Law and Order the famous Kennedy clan might show up in one form or another but the name was always changed to the "Flanigans" or something similarly Irish. On this episode the Kennedys are called the Kennedys and that's that. The family uses its influence to have the Feds shut down an investigation -- the head
villain insists he's the son of JFK -- and issue a gag order. One can only imagine what the real Kennedys thought of this episode, in which JFK's illegitimate son -- or is he? -- is a multiple murderer. Twisty, interesting, and very weird episode with good performances from Christopher MacDonald and Rue McClanahan, a riot as his sassy mother. NOTE: This was obviously inspired by the real-life Jack Worthington (who was NOT a murderer) who claimed in a piece in Vanity Fair that his mother told him he was the son of JFK-- and there are indications that this might well have been true. The magazine was going to do a follow-up piece but Ted Kennedy shut it down.
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