Old Man @ The Movies

I should have seen the movie I saw today yesterday, because then I could have thought someone was playing an April Fool's Day trick on me. Maybe I'm just too old, but today's movie DEATH OF A UNICORN had me missing the boat by a couple of days. It wasn't just stupid or bizarre or weird, it was all three and then some. Picture this if you can: A man is driving to a business meeting with his young daughter (late teens to early twenties), toward some remote place, and they strike and seriously injure a unicorn, which he then proceeds to pound to death. He is a pharmaceutical consultant to some company and he is meeting the owners, a family of weirdos. And then unicorns become the center of conversation and the focal point of the movie, But this version is not how I picture these fantasy creatures--gentle members of the horse family with a single horn jutting out of the forehead.  The unicorns in this film are aggressive and ferocious, growling like lions instead of neighin...

I came out of the movie I saw yesterday not certain of what I had seen. THE WOMAN IN THE YARD is described as a horror, mystery, thriller. It was scary, there were some mysteries, but it was not thrilling in any way. The all African- American cast was more than competent in handling this film about a mother, on crutches as the result of an automobile accident that killed her husband, snd two children (teen-aged son and younger daughter) living in a comfortable house in a rural setting that her husband had been lovingly restoring. There are tensions which magnify when they discover a woman shrouded in clothes covering her head sitting in the yard. The mother, Ramona, goes out to confront the woman, who won't leave, and does not speak, and concludes that the woman is either lost or demented. They are unable to call for help because, for no reason, the electricity fails. Tensions increase, Ramona cannot go for help because their car won't start, snd the son confronts the yard woma...