Category: Reviews

Alex Garland has quickly become one of my favorite directors. Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018) were both phenomenal movies that kept you on the edge of your seat. I expected Men to be the same style of psychological thriller that touched on important and intricate themes and ideologies. Men begins when Harper (Jessie Buckley)…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the wildest and most ridiculous movies of 2022. But it is also one of the best. The movie is divided into three parts. ‘Part 1: Everything’ begins by introducing us to the main players of this tumultuous story. Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) runs a laundromat with her…
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Turning Red is a Pixar movie that departs from the traditional trajectory of the studio, but in a good way. This movie is the first time that an all female creative leadership team has created a movie for the animation studio. You might recognize writer and director Domee Shi from her animated short film, Bao…
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Montana Story is a neo-Western that follows the story of two siblings who have lost touch with each other but reunite at their family ranch. Cal (Owen Teague) lives nearby and has built a life for himself with one foot still in his childhood and the ranch he grew up on. He is at the…
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Pixar has gone back to their roots with their latest release, Lightyear. In 1995, Pixar made a splash with Toy Story – the first film from the new animation studio. Since then, there have been 26 Pixar films covering a wide range of topics and characters. Toy Story was such a smash hit it spawned…
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Lucy and Desi is a documentary about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the legendary television couple. Ball and Arnaz’s many successes have been well documented both on screen and in print. The power couple met on the set of a movie. They quickly fell in love, got married, and were promptly separated because of work…
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I really wanted to love The 355. The concept has so much potential. The movie begins by showing a weapon that can hack into any computer system on Earth. The weapon is about to fall into the wrong hands when Columbian agent Rojas (Edgar Ramírez) and his team storm the compound and Rojas retrieves it.…
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West Side Story is an adaptation of the 1957 musical. It was made into a movie in 1961 starring Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, and Rita Moreno. The 2021 version is helmed by director Stephen Spielberg. The story is most likely familiar to folks. It takes place in New York City and pits two…
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I was sincerely excited to see The Eternals. Marvel movies are a guilty pleasure of mine and they had tapped one of my favorite directors, Chloe Zhao, to be at the helm of the newest Marvel flick. The beginning of this movie already departs from the traditional Marvel structure. We’re greeted with text, explaining the…
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Stanley Nelson is well known for his prolific documentaries highlighting moments of Black history in the United States. Nelson has covered topics like HBCU’s, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and the Freedom Riders. It seems logical that he would tackle Attica next. If you aren’t familiar with what happened at Attica, here’s a brief summary. In…
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