Review – Daddy, Is That A Mermaid? (“The King’s Daughter”)

What. The. Hell. Was. That? Originally shot way back in 2014, this movie languished on the shelves until now because of. . . well, reasons. I guess it’s a really slow week at the box office with no top-drawer films to give it competition, right? Based on Vonda N. McIntyre’s 1997 novel, The Moon and…

Review – It’s A Hard Knox Life (“Stillwater”)

Co-writer & director Tom McCarthy read about Amanda Knox, her 2007 murder arrest and trial in Italy (see 2nd movie review below), and that gave him the inspiration to write this fictional movie. So, you might say this movie is “ripped from the headlines”, right? Without so much as a backstory, flashback, or newspaper clipping,…