Tag: Movie Review

You might recognize writer and director Thomas Vinterberg from the film movement he started called the Dogme 95 Collective. Another Round doesn’t follow the guidelines of the movement he started with Lars von Trier but it does provide very entertaining cinema nonetheless. Martin (Mads Mikkelsen) is a schoolteacher and works with three of his buddies,…
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Oh my gosh. I cannot tell you how long I have waited for the writers of Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, to team up again. Finally it has arrived. And it was not at all what I expected but in the best way. If Bridesmaids was too crazy or silly for you then I…
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“I’m not gonna suck up to happiness. If it comes, great. If it doesn’t, who gives a shit.” This was my favorite line from The Life Ahead. It is said in a defiant voiceover by Momo (Ibrahima Gueye), a 12-year-old street kid who hasn’t known much happiness in his life. His mother is dead and…
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Writer and director John Lee Hancock is well known for his “feel good” movies like The Rookie (2002), The Blind Side (2009), and Saving Mr. Banks (2013). With The Little Things, Hancock takes a stab at crafting a suspenseful thriller. Joe Deacon (Denzel Washington) is a Kern County Deputy Sheriff who is sent to Los…
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Promising Young Woman was perhaps the buzziest movie this year. Before it was even released critics were either raving about it or ripping it to shreds. I have a mild obsession with Carey Mulligan (I’m still salty she was snubbed for her performance in Wildlife) so I was eager to see it. It’s hard to…
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Sylvie’s Love is a refreshing movie combining love, relationships, dreams, music, and television into one story. If it sounds ambitious that’s because it is. Set in the 1950’s in Harlem, Sylvie’s Love introduces us to the two main characters right away. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) works in her father’s record shop and dreams of being in…
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The Nest is the second feature film from director Sean Durkin. You might remember his first offering, Martha Marcy May Marlene, which had an amazing cast including Julia Garner and Elizabeth Olsen. The Nest is a little more subdued and is set in the 1980’s. We are introduced to a couple, Englishman Rory (Jude Law)…
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Soul is the latest animated offering from Pixar, which consistently churns out memorable movies. Joe (Jamie Foxx) is a middle school band teacher with dreams of becoming a famous jazz musician. He happens to land a gig with a famous jazz musician named Dorothea. After rehearsing for the gig, Joe falls in a hole and…
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The opening scene of Wonder Woman 1984 sees us visiting Diana as a child. She is participating in a competition against older Amazon women but is disqualified for cheating. Here she receives a lesson on the importance of the truth and what makes a hero great. This lesson is supposed to be a thread throughout…
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Kajillionaire is the latest movie from writer and director Miranda July. It focuses on an odd family of scam artists. The parents Robert (Richard Jenkins) and Theresa (Debra Winger) don’t have jobs and steal things and run scams to survive. Their daughter Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood), and yes that truly is her actual name,…
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