Kurt Hansen's Reviews
C'mon already and get back together.
At an hour and 45 minutes, give or take, it's taking an extraordinarily long time for Zooey and Charlie to get back together and by the end, even the dimmest of all watchers know what's about to happen. Typical romance comedy stuff with just one thing that makes the film stand out: pups.
There's a ton of doggies and pup-related stuff in this film. Maybe a little over the top on the dogs, but I must say if you don't like this movie because of the doggies, or just don't like animals in general, that's just wrong... to say the least. Is it woke for telling the viewers to flat-out adopt a pet from the shelter? If so, that makes me a woke liberal.
Fun movie. About 30 minutes too long.
Created: 12-10-2025
Important: Claire background noise for most of this film.
I'm upping the woke level for Oh. What. Fun. because it actually does kind of bash men and the mom is a bit more annoying than the original review lets on. Other reviews are correct here. I seem to remember there was kind of a silly action scene for about 15 minutes towards the end the I thought was funny, which would explain the higher rating.
Not sure what happened in Acts 1 and 2. The movie was quite unfunny, at least for me and I was expecting kind of a fun movie. Lucky for us, that all changes about a half hour before the film ends. Go ahead and use this as background noise for any time before that. The characters are translucent, of course one is a lesbian. Get to know them for a minute or so in preparation for the last half hour.
It's a bit Leave it to Beaver around moms, and it gets more life lesson preachy and especially sappy towards the very end, but yeah, from about a half hour towards the end of the film, for 15 minutes, Oh What Fun is fun. And I dig Michelle Pfeiffer. She's cool.
For a Rom-Com mom Christmas movie, I say give it a whirl. I even bumped the overall rating up a little as I made it though the movie. It's a little too mom focused to be in my Christmas rotation, but good for a watch.
Created: 12-09-2025
All you need is a terrible cast and crappy plot
To disinfect a film from any wokeness, just write yourself a terrible script and get your crap cast to run 15 minute monologs about who the hell knows what. Gemma (Alexandra Bard) is his assistant / secretary / lover / confidant, an actress who only sucks just a little less than Doctor Henry (Robert Brettenaugh).
The film starts out with Gemma's terrible acting as they fart around doing stuff from the movie The Fly, then it morphs into kind of nothing in the middle, followed by what could be a rock star heroin withdrawal as Gemma sticks patiently by the Doctor's side while he says he will rip her apart and drink her blood.
I hated this film.
Created: 12-08-2025
Traveling in a London circus bumper car isn't too funny
Time Travel is Dangerous! bills itself as a comedy and makes no excuses for it: the jokes are kind of in-your-face. I didn't find the movie funny and I don't even know why. The jokes are there and it's a quirky film, just no humor in it for me.
I was going to discount this movie as watchable, not too serious and not worth any type of re-watch, but as it went on, the film grew on me. Everything about it is pedestrian in a way, but it kept on keeping on and I kept watching. Soon, I started to like the two girl characters and even their misfit science buddies. By the end, I think it's a fun little "indie" type of film and I might want to see it again. Worth checking out. No political correctness or woke subtexts at all.
Created: 12-04-2025
It's the new deal right in the middle
This is the second film I've watched where we get bombed from the side with a gay couple injected in the middle of the film for absolutely no reason. His husband is possessed. Who's writing these scripts? Do they have to actually tick individual boxes to get the green light? I'd be offended if I were gay. The film takes like a potshot at them and includes the gays just because, for no reason aside from thinking they're such snowflakes that they can't even make it through a movie without at least ONE gay couple in it.
Anyhow, Baby Blue did not turn out as bad as I thought. Once I saw that the cast was YouTube influencer video log types, I immediately hoped they all got killed in the worst way by Baby Blue but as the movie goes on they settle down a bit and it turns mostly into a watchable horror movie. The kids still are obnoxious, brain dead goons created by social media, but they're digestible. Watch this movie if only to see for yourself the gay couple wedged right in the middle. It's kind of crazy.
Created: 12-02-2025
A kind-of Rom Com Christmas Jingle Bell Heist Movie
As far as Christmas films go, Jingle Bell Heist lives up to that. I like Olivia Holt as Sophia- she's kind of sexy in a Christmas sort of way and plays the part well. The plot is kind of cringe mainly, I think, to the outlandish plot in the second act. It's hard to explain. By the resolution in the third act, things come together well enough for Jingle Bell Heist to qualify as a watchable film and not one that belongs on The Hallmark Channel.
It's certainly not one of my top Rom Coms that I like to watch for the pure sappiness and predictability of the story, but I can recommend it on a Sunday afternoon if you're down for a campy, somewhat love and capers story.
Created: 12-02-2025
We are nowhere near the 1980's and will never be again
I was trying to find out if there was a gay-man plot in Killer Rental and since I wasn't paying attention too well, I missed the secret clues. The first clue was one of the kids says, "you're so gay" and I immediately thought this was kind of derogative statement from the 80's. It was not. It was, "how cool it is that you are gay". Odd how it gets worse and worse towards the end of the film until we see two bros kissing in their modern experiment of trying to be gay. Seems modern liberal kids can't come up with better things to do than experiment with their sexuality with your bros. What a load of shit.
And I bumped the overall rating down for this movies being a found footage film, although it kind of isn't, but bills itself as such. The acting, the plot, and bits of gore aren't too bad. It's hard to get invested in these kids, so when they die we kind of cheer. I find it hard to recommend this film. Maybe if you fast forward the bro gay scene, it's worth a watch. God, I miss the 70's and 80's.
Created: 12-01-2025
Can this cell phone slop be stopped?
Here's where technology really shits out. I'm so tired of these homemade, cell-phone movies with horrible acting and piss poor sound. They're a waste of everyone's time and need to be held accountable for lowering the collective IQ of the planet.
Created: 12-01-2025
Bugonia and those forgotten Academy Award winners
I did like Poor Things from Yorgos Lanthimos. Did it deserve an award? No. Nominated films today do not deserve any awards. Zero. Half the time they're forgotten in 10 seconds. Think: Captain Phillips and Barkhad Abdi. Bugonia is heading for an Academy nomination and it's not terrible, not great either.
I had to fast forward most of the second half due to disgust of the main "antagonists". Don and Teddy are far too eccentric and full of nonsense that they need to be skipped, but I do like Emma Stone and she adds a lot to the film. Holy Christ, I forgot she was in Movie 43. That film was awful. I think Yorgos and Stone's collaboration is moving her career in a fun direction.
And we all saw the twist at the end coming.
As for the not-so-subtle Hollywood leftist psychobabble in Bugonia: it's there alright, but I'm taking a pass on calling it out since it kind of fits the narrative. Kind of. Like other reviewers said on this site, just because it's there doesn't immediately woke score the entire film. You'll know it when you see it if you watch Bugonia and it's worth a watch, just not an Academy award which it will for sure receive.
Created: 11-26-2025
Not a cell phone made movie
With so many absolutely terrible movies made by anyone with a cell phone and a few spare cardboard boxes these days, I had few expectations for Dog Fugitive. But, I really like dogs and Dr. Fluffy is a cute little pup. First on the list: Dr. Fluffy's voice is grating just like Stuart Little and my wife hates that mouse, so our pup didn't win any popularity points with her. The story is kind of silly. Like, everyone talks to Dr. Fluffy like she's human and completely ignores the fact that she's a talking dog. And she wears disguises and sunglasses and even robs a convenance store for a little while.
Some of the scenes really had me laughing for no reason. Dr. Fluffy sitting at the dinner table or in a lawn chair. She's actually quite talented. I want to know how they got her to stay still in some of these scenes. Anyhow, this is absolutely not a homemade movie with high school drama club kids acting. It ain't good either, but done well enough that I'd recommend it for anyone just chilling out looking for a stupid laugh. Unless you don't like Stuart Little.
Created: 11-24-2025
