Tag: Film Review

Director RaMell Ross crafts a really stunning documentary that has a unique style. It sort of reminded me of a more experimental style of film. There is no linear plot although there are some recurring characters. The film follows two young men, Charlie and Quincy, who are growing up in Hale County, Alabama. They pop…
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Never Look Away is a three hour movie. Not in a hyperbolic, “Oh my god this movie is like three hours long,” type of way. It is actually three hours. Three hours and nine minutes to be exact. When I got out of the theater I felt like I had just woken up from a…
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This was definitely a super heartwarming story. If you like animation at all I would highly recommend seeing this. From director and writer Mamoru Hosoda (the Digimon movies anyone?) comes a fascinating look at family dynamics from the point of view of a young boy. Kun’s life is turned upside down when his parents bring…
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I love a good rom com. And I also love Rebel Wilson. So putting them together seemed like a really good idea to me. Isn’t It Romantic? is sort of a tongue in cheek movie. It’s basically making fun of the rom com genre as a whole. Natalie (Rebel Wilson) is a somewhat cynical woman…
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A Private War is director Matthew Heineman’s first feature length film that is not a documentary. As primarily a documentary filmmaker, it makes sense that he would pick this topic. Journalist Marie Colvin was a legend. If you haven’t heard of her at all (where have you been?) then you should check out this article…
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Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff. I was a massive Winnie the Pooh fan when I was little. I was so jealous of Christopher Robin because he got to hang out with Pooh all the time. In this installment in the Pooh story, Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) is…
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Wow, wow, wow. Director Nadine Labaki has crafted a stunning film here. I was really blown away by this one. She used non-professional actors and I can’t imagine how she was able to get such amazing performances out of them. Labaki filmed mainly in Beirut and told a story that has become commonplace for the…
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Alex Garland really won me over with his last film Ex Machina in 2014. I love anything having to do with Artificial Intelligence so it was a sure bet that I was going to like it. It was one of my favorite sci-fi films ever so I was stoked to see his newest sci-fi film…
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John David Washington is everywhere. Literally everywhere. And I’m not too mad about it because I think he’s fantastic. He’s one of three main characters whose lives intersect when an unarmed African-American man is shot by the cops. So this isn’t a happy one obviously. It’s a hard look at systemic issues. Washington plays Dennis,…
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I watched this trailer and said nope. Then I had to watch the film because it was nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards and I was really glad I did. It was written and directed by Quinn Shephard who wrote much of the screenplay when she was a teenager. She also stars in the film…
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