Tag: Movie Review

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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Jennifer Lawrence. You either love her or you hate her it seems. And we are firmly in the love camp at BWV. No Hard Feelings finally gives Lawrence the chance to do something we always knew she was built for: comedy. This particular comedy might not be your cup of tea. It’s raunchy. It’s unhinged.…
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Todd Haynes’ May December gives us one hour and fifty-seven minutes of squirming in our seats uncomfortably. The subject matter is dicey and loosely based on a news story featuring Mary Kay Letourneau in the 90’s, which makes watching the story unfold that much more difficult. Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) is an actor, set to star…
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The Inspection is a highly personal story for writer and director Elegance Bratton. His semi-autobiographical film details the journey of Ellis (Jeremy Pope). He’s been homeless for years after his mother found out he was gay and cast him aside. In order to find his place in life, win back his mother’s favor, and avoid…
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Fire of Love is a documentary that features the most amazing footage of volcanoes we’ve ever seen. Katia and Maurice Krafft were volcanologists (scientists who study volcanoes). The two cross paths and become inseparable, both obsessed with studying volcanoes and trying to understand how they work and how to predict when one will erupt. Katia…
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Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. originally premiered as a short film at the Atlanta Film Festival. The success of the short film, which also showed at several other film festivals, prompted a feature length film starring Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown. Not a bad cast for director (and Atlanta native) Adamma Ebo’s first…
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If you haven’t heard of Nan Goldin before, then All the Beauty and the Bloodshed will not be as interesting or as affecting. If you’ve been privileged enough to learn about her or see her photography at an exhibit in person, then this documentary will be of particular interest. It’s no surprise that a good…
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Saint Omer is a two hour and two minute courtroom drama. But if you’re expecting a heated and rapid paced drama like Argentina, 1985 or The Trial of the Chicago 7 you’ll be disappointed. This is an incredibly slow moving movie. Rama (Kayije Kagame) is a writer and professor who is working on a book…
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In The Banshees of Inisherin, Padraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson) are best friends living on an island off the coast of Ireland in the early 1900’s. One day Colm announces he no longer wants to be friends with Padraic and can’t give any good reason for ending their friendship. Padraic is baffled by…
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Writer and director Damien Chazelle has had a string of hits with Whiplash (2014), La La Land (2016), and First Man (2018). He adds another to his roster with his latest feature film Babylon. For this film, Chazelle returns to his deep love of movies and Hollywood, exploring the silent movie era and the advent…
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