As NOBODY opens, we see our lead Hutch (Bob Odenkirk) sitting at an interrogation table smoking a cigarette and being asked to identify himself. Hutch calls himself “a nobody”. Suddenly, we go back in time and make his acquaintance. Hutch is a guy with his work and life routine. He’s a family man working a […]
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SOME KIND OF HEAVEN Review – Retirement in Florida
Directed by Lance Oppenheim, SOME KIND OF HEAVEN begins with the sounds of a pipe organ, alluding to funerals or church services, as the title subtly suggests. The story takes place in America’s largest retirement community: The Villages in Florida. Introduced in an overview alike a promo for a tourist attraction, The Villages is a sort […]
GODZILLA VS KONG review – MONSTER SMASH!
I know it has been mentioned many times before on our site by yours truly but reader…I miss movie theatres. As much as I love my 4k TV at home, there is nothing like the cinema experience for particular movies that require not only a giant wide screen and a bombastic sound system to not […]
VANGUARD review – All The Jackie Chan!
VANGUARD is a recent Chinese action film, and the latest outing for the legendary Jackie Chan and his director Stanley Tong, one of Chan’s regular collaborators. The movie is named after the private army of its story. Vanguard employs military trained soldiers, and other uniquely talented individuals, to protect their clients. In this story, Vanguard […]
SOUND OF METAL review – Oscar Nominated Awesome
SOUND OF METAL (Darius Marder) is an affecting journey from club stages to stillness in a quiet world. The film primarily follows Ruben Stone (Riz Ahmed), a drummer for a heavy metal act called Blackgammon. Ruben and his partner Lou (Olivia Cooke) live in an Airstream motorhome that serves as a residence and travelling studio. […]
PIXIE Review – An Engrossing & Enjoyable Story from Ireland
PIXIE (Barnaby Thompson) takes place in Northern Ireland, and as implied by its title, the story revolves around a young woman named Pixie Hardy (Olivia Cooke). Her mother was killed, but nobody really trusts her story, or her. She’s portrayed very much as a free spirit, and someone that never stops standing up for themselves. […]
MONSTER HUNTER – It’s a Milla Spectacle!
MONSTER HUNTER, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson (known for the first RESIDENT EVIL movie) is a film adaptation of a long-running Capcom video game series. I have only a passing familiarity with the games, so I can’t speak to any Easter eggs, or backstory, that more experienced players might notice. The story establishes that […]
RAYA & THE LAST DRAGON Review – Get Your Tuk-Tuks Out
I have always felt that these days, Disney-Slash-Pixar titles seem to get all of the attention in the animation game. Which in a way is alright (SOUL, the latest Pixar movie, was my #1 movie of 2020) but there is another aspect to Disney that gets overlooked these days is its Walt Disney Animation Studios department […]
MINARI review – A Slice of Life Presentation
It isn’t often that a movie can be described as endearing, yet that was the feeling that permeated MINARI (Lee Isaac Chung). The film has a ‘slice of life’ presentation, as it follows a tumultuous period for a Korean family. Moving from California, we join the family in their car, as they follow a moving […]
Ten Decades of Oscars: YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938)
Hello! And welcome to the second installment of my weekly feature Ten Decades of Oscars where each week I’ll watch every Best Picture from a given decade, then choose one to discuss at length. This week, it’s Frank Capra’s YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, which won top prize in 1938. The film follows the […]
A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX review – Free Your Mind
Ask yourself “Did you want to visit this website?” If you believe that our world might not exist, then your visit might be the result of forces beyond your understanding. A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX (Rodney Ascher) explores the belief of simulation theory. This idea is not new, and has been a mainstay of recent […]
Ten Decades of Oscars: WINGS (1927)
Hello! And welcome to a weekly feature I’ll be writing in the run-up to the 2020 Oscars on April 25th. I’m one of those idiots who still buys physical media—often an annual metric tonnage of it—and I’m also one of those idiots who can’t help but be swept up in the politics and the competition […]
Black History Month review – JUST MERCY
The story of JUST MERCY, directed and co-written by Destin Daniel Cretton (SHORT TERM 12), begins in a forest. A logger looks up at a patch of sky, obscured moments ago by the tree he just fell. This becomes a significant memory. The way the branches are described as dancers in the wind. It’s the […]
JUDAS & THE BLACK MESSIAH Review – Fred Turner is Revolutionary
A movie I have been waiting to see for quite a long time (I remember seeing a trailer for this last summer when TENET made its theatrical release), JUDAS & THE BLACK MESSIAH finally arrives in release at a very important time in our bizarre, always-changing world. With so many people all over the world […]
BARB & STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR – It’s Time For A Holiday!
I can’t believe that it has been almost a decade since BRIDESMAIDS was released into theatres. A combination of both FREAKS & GEEKS creator Paul Feig’s comedic styling along with Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumulo’s wickedly funny screenplay, I still remember laughing loud and long throughout the picture and revisiting it several times over the […]