Mini-Movie Reviews...

I'm pretty sure most of you out there value your money as much as I do.
So when it's spent on a lame movie, it's frustrating.
I'm going to try an experiment here and see if it works: I will post a mini-review of the movies we see and share what I think. If you find it helps you choose a good movie, I'll feel like I've made a mini-difference. If you disagree with me, that will be educational.
Here goes:

The House With a Clock In Its Walls. This is a dud and I can't understand why Cate Blanchett agreed to be in it.
It's all over the place with the plot and the actors don't have direction. The little boy is alternately scared and worried or unafraid of anything weird.
The house apparently has a secret in the walls but the things outside the walls are pretty odd.
This movie is either a dark comedy or a parody of something like The Munsters.
It just doesn't engage even after a dead guy breaks out of his grave and threatens to make a decent movie of this.
Skip it. Skip it and don't go there.

Crazy Rich Asians. Surprisingly entertaining this one. We went because we needed a movie fix and this was what was the most easily available. It's a trip through life with truckloads of money from first-class accommodations to parties decorated to the top of many towers. It's really lots of eye candy and for those of us who live in the real world, it's somewhat obscene. There's no limit apparently to what one can spend for a wedding the potential mother-in-law doesn't want and the simple economics professor didn't expect.
Here's one for the big screen because much of glitzy effect just wouldn't be nearly as effective in the family rooom.

It's also one not to take very seriously or it would be hard to come down out of the sky to do the dishes.