Tag: Keir O’Donnell

Coyotes was watched as part of Fantastic Fest 2025! It had its showing on Saturday, September 20th as part of the festival, and it was the World Premiere of this film!

Live is swell for people who live in the Hollywood hills! It must be, because you live in the Hollywood Hills. Big houses, big yards, fancy cars, rich people.

Now of course this has some negatives. A man (Justin Long) rarely sees his wife (Kate Bosworth) and daughter (Mila Harris) because he is working all the time. Dreams are being deferred, hours spent climbing the corporate ladder, and for what? A nice house? A dog? Shitty neighbors?

None of that backstory matters too much right, because a big storm hits the area knocking out the power, and they are going to be without it for awhile. On top of that, there are reports of coyote attacks in the area? That is really weird, because coyotes really don’t attack people. Not even if they are hungry and afraid. And yet, these ones do. And when they are stuck in their mansions and hills, with their transportation out failing, surviving a gang of coyotes who seem very pissed off might just be an impossibility.

Also starring Keir O’Donnell, Katherine McNamara, Brittany Allen, Norbert Leo Butz, Norma Nivia, and Kevin Glynn as the exterminator.

Everything I know is allergic to stabbing, so I am sure this work.

There is not much that I can do to describe this movie, its coyotes attacking rich people! Unfortunately, not the CEOs of major tech companies, no, just regular rich people. Well, one of them is kind of suspect, but he is also funny so I forgive him.

The crux of this movie is that these coyotes are out to kill, an animal that any person who knows about coyotes and hears about this plot, will be quick to tell you they don’t do this. And that is okay, it is a fake movie, could have been wolves, foxes, whatever. It is just things that are dog like and wild. Anyways, Coyotes is actually a lot of fun. Justin Long has an inherent goofiness to himself no matter his role, especially in horror films, and in here he has to play a father who definitely cares about his wife and kid, but isn’t a strong hero at the same time.

And you know, then we get comedy. We get some actual scary moments, we get off the wall moments, and we just get some pure comedy. Fun deaths, silly situations, and a little bit of fear. That is what I want in my horror comedies.

This movie doesn’t have underlying commentary, outside of hey, be good to your loved ones. Instead I’d think of it as a what if story. What if coyotes were dicks and attacked people? And what if people are silly?

Have fun, and lock your doors.

I didn’t mean to watch this movie today, but when I was halfway to work I realized I didn’t bring any of the three I had meant to watch. So I had a quick “Oh no! Boredom!” moment, but thankfully I do have access to someone’s netflix. I went randomly through my list of movies I own that I didn’t watch and Flakes was on instant stream.

Problem solved. But if I was cooler, I’d have found a movie I don’t own and haven’t seen. My bad!

But as it stands, my ability to slack is over my ability to be efficient.

Speaking of slackers, this is another movie about a slacker. I feel like that’s all I watch now. Neal (Aaron Stanford) is going no where with life. He has a hot girlfriend in Zooey Deschanel though. But he is the manager and main worker at a store called Flakes, which is like a bar, but instead of alcohol they server cereal, all day every day. Such a wide selection too, and some rare cereals. Can add fruit if you want, and change up the milk kind. Pretty rad idea. But not the biggest money maker.

But when some suit (Keir O’Donnell) opens up a shop next door, with a similar name and same concept, just MORE, it could mean trouble. Especially since thanks to fights and not hiring Zooey, she goes to work with the new store. After all, if she can shut down the origial Flakes, her boyfriend can finally stop wasting all his time, and finish his damn album.

The movie is basically the battle of the cereal shops, in New Orleans. Christopher Lloyd plays the seemingly crazy owner of the business, and Frank Wood a very dedicated customer who also can find hard to find / discontinued cereals.

MOAR CEREAL

For whatever reason, I found this movie quite enjoyable. Not the most compelling tale at all, something probably done many times before, and even a bit too slow paced, but I thought it all worked given the circumstances. My plotline sets it up for a different type of movie. Sure they battle at the beginning. Business tactics, but mostly apathy and assume their side will win. Well the wrong side wins about halfway through the movie, leaving our “heroes” jobless from their own pseudo-creation.

So we get to see them try other jobs and going to their conquerors, and seeing if a lack of Flakes really changes their outlook at all.

Sometimes you need a story that has a happy ending, even if it comes through unconventional ways.