Reviews

I feel like my movie coverage as of late has been for movies championing work that SHOULD win the Oscar this year. From the wonder of FLOW possibly winning the Best Animated Feature Oscar and the documentary SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT (a review of this is coming shortly to the site) hoping to take […]

For the last few months all I have been talking about is FLOW, the little cat movie from Latvia that could. While I will still promote that movie to anyone who will listen, the big reason is that the animated feature is one of the most powerful art forms we have in cinema right now […]

I feel like movies like ONE OF THEM DAYS were made far more in the 1990s and 2000s, when it was a more simple time for comedies aimed at adults and would play in more screens in cinemas. It feels almost refreshing in a way to see a movie like this in which two best […]

If you have been following the movie BETTER MAN, chances are you know by now that the movie is a music biography on the life of Robbie Williams where his entire performance is a computer generated monkey. Or chimpanzee. Or ape. Or whatever you want to call it. This factoid did tend to slip past […]

2024 has been a real great year, in my eyes, for movies being made in a more classical style along with evolution in animated movies by independent filmmakers along with a better focus on indie filmmaking at film festivals. Along with finding me in downtown cinemas in my home city seeing all the new releases […]

As a long time fan of filmmaker Kevin Smith, I was eager to see yet another documentary about his work and this time about my personal favourite of his, CHASING AMY, which was somewhat of a reaction to the failure of his sophomore feature MALLRATS and a bounce-back to his indie rooms at that time. […]

A movie like GOODRICH is what I like to call a “nice” movie. There is very little in the way of characters having TOO much hardship with so much positivity around them, but sometimes we need a movie like this to come along to make us feel a little bit better. The real star here is […]

A wave of happiness flooded over me with the new TWISTERS movie, a rather unique continuation of smart people going right into the path of tornados. Jan De Bont’s flawed but deliriously entertaining 1996 picture TWISTER was a huge hit in its theatrical release in 1996, and I remember seeing it in cinemas on opening […]

I have always been fascinated by the era of the Space Race and everything around it. From THE RIGHT STUFF which told the story about breaking the sound barrier leading to the first round of Americans trying to fly around the planet to APOLLO 13 which is one of the best movies ever made about […]

The problem with THE FALL GUY is that it’s not really about the world of stunt performers, and nor does it do enough to truly recognize their contributions to cinema. The opening monologue rewrites what’s classic from the TV series, and the movie (METALSTORM) being made within this movie vaguely hints at it. But unless […]

According to US Senate Corey Booker of New Jersey, America’s food system is savagely broken. In the well-meaning documentary, FOOD, INC. 2, viewers are looking at how the industry has changed when the Covid-19 pandemic struck, what’s still wrong with it and how it’s affected the global distribution chain. It’s a loose sequel to the […]

EMMAGEDDON is a charming enough film about Emily (Bre Mueck) who dreams about being a hero. But in reality, she just wants to have a better life than the one she has now and the way she throws herself into an imagined world, where she and Emma are the same, can get confusing. Both of […]

THE IRON CLAW takes place in a different era of wrestling than what you are familiar with today. At that moment the WWE was not yet the global wrestling powerhouse. They were still known as the WWWF and it’s just a territorial promotion in most of New England and New York, and this takes place mostly […]

With the recent Apple+/theatrical release ARGYLLE, I am somewhat baffled by Matthew Vaughan’s recent actioner. This new movie does not look or have the feeling of The Official Pitch:  Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World franchise) is Elly Conway, the reclusive author of a series of best-selling espionage novels, whose idea of bliss is a night […]

I always felt like I was not the target audience for the Lindsay Lohan starring MEAN GIRLS, but I went on opening day in 2004 and remember laughing out loud constantly and was especially impressed in just how the Mark Waters-directed and Tina Fey written comedy really showcased teenager issues well at the time. Far […]