Category: Reviews

Taking on a remake or even a re-imagining of the classic movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) is a tall task. But writer and director Paul King, who is most well-known for the Paddington movies, tackles it handily with this breezy and fun iteration of the classic Roald Dahl story.  We meet Willy…
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One thing we can respect about writer and director Emerald Fennell is that she swings for the fences. Her directorial debut, Promising Young Woman (2020), was a shocking look at a young woman attempting to dismantle the system of privelege and patriarchy that forced her life to go off the rails. Fennell’s sophomore effort, Saltburn,…
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Eileen is based on a novel of the same name by author Ottessa Moshfegh. Those who have read the book likely won’t have the same reaction as those of us who went into this one with no prior knowledge.  Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) lives with her alcoholic father who is an ex-cop. She works at the…
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Writer and director Jeff Rowe follows up the 2021 surprise success of The Mitchells vs. The Machines with another animated gem. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem takes the beloved ninja turtles and gives us a fresh perspective on the old story. The much-loved band of brothers, Donatello (Micah Abbey), Michelangelo (Shamon Brown Jr.), Leonardo…
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Director Michael Mann tackles the man who made Ferrari a household name. Troy Kennedy Martin and Brock Yates’ screenplay drops us into 1957, where Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is struggling in both his personal and professional life. He’s in the midst of an affair with Lina (Shailene Woodley) with whom he has a secret son.…
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is the first feature length movie for writer and director Raven Jackson. It follows the life of Mack from her childhood days to when she sports gray hair as an older lady. This isn’t a traditional linear plot. Scenes from each era of her life slide in easily next…
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How To Blow Up A Pipeline’s plot puts climate change and environmental activism at the center. A group of strangers with one common goal meet up in the middle of the desert. They have hatched a plan to blow up an oil pipeline as an act of defiance against the use of fossil fuels and…
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Five years after the last Mission Impossible movie, Tom Cruise is back reprising his role as IMF agent Ethan Hunt. This time his mission involves finding half of a key that is used to access something that is referred to as The Entity throughout the movie. The Entity is a powerful AI machine that every…
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Director Yorgos Lanthimos has a body of work that is unique to say the least. Poor Things continues his trend of telling odd but interesting stories that definitely won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. This particular project is adapted from a book of the same title by Alasdair Gray.  It’s a curious story about a…
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“Life is like a hen house ladder. Shitty and short.” That’s the mantra of Paul (Paul Giamatti), a school teacher at a boarding school in the 1970’s. He has a particular disdain for his students and a wealth of knowledge about topics that no one around him seems to appreciate. It’s Christmas break and Paul…
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