Tag: movie
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“I Saw the TV Glow”: A Journey Through the Static
MOVIE INFO: Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack. REVIEW: In Jane Schoenbrun’s latest…
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The Boy and the Heron: Miyazaki’s Poetic Farewell
MOVIE INFO: From the legendary Studio Ghibli and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) comes a new critically-acclaimed fantasy adventure. After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family’s estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a…
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Handling the Undead: A Hauntingly Beautiful Exploration of Life, Death, and Everything In Between”
MOVIE INFO: On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother’s reawakening before they have even mourned her death after a car…
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In a Violent Nature: A Slasher Movie Looking for a Soul
MOVIE INFO: When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 60-year old crime, his body is resurrected and becomes hellbent on retrieving it. The undead golem hones in on the group of vacationing teens responsible…
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Boy Kills World: A Frenzied Ballet of Blood and Vengeance
MOVIE INFO: Bill Skarsgård stars as “Boy” who vows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deaf and voiceless. Driven by his inner voice, one which he co-opted from his favorite childhood video game, Boy trains…
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: A Riotous Return to the Macabre
MOVIE INFO: Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally…
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Rebel Ridge: Homaging Billy Jack the Right Way
MOVIE INFO: REVIEW: In “Rebel Ridge,” director Jeremy Saulnier delivers a gripping and exhilarating thriller that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats from start to finish. The film stars Aaron Pierre as Terry Richmond, a man on a mission to rescue his cousin from the clutches of a corrupt small-town police force. What…
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I Used to Be Funny: Getting to the PTSD behind the Punchline
MOVIE INFO: I Used To Be Funny is a dark dramedy that follows Sam Cowell (Rachel Sennott), an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, as she decides whether or not to join the search for Brooke (Olga Petsa), a missing teenage girl she used to nanny. The story exists between the present,…
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Kinds of Kindness: More 50 Shades of Unkindness
MOVIE INFO: KINDS OF KINDNESS is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who…
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Afraid: A.I. Horror That Fulfills its Coding.
MOVIE INFO: In AFRAID, Curtis (John Cho) and his family are selected to test a revolutionary new home device: a digital family assistant called AIA. Taking smart home to the next level, once the unit and all its sensors and cameras are installed in their home, AIA seems able to do it all. She learns…
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Wildcat: Not Seeing the True Reflection of Flannery O’Connor through her Work
MOVIE INFO: Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In…
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The Supremes at Earls All You Can Eat: A Good Buffet of Black Period Drama Cliches
MOVIE INFO: THE SUPREMES AT EARL’S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT follows a trio of best friends (Uzo Aduba, Aunjanue Ellis, Sanaa Lathan) known as “The Supremes” who, for decades, has weathered life’s storms together through marriage and children, happiness and blues. Now, as heartbreak and illness stir up the past and threaten to destroy their friendship, Odette, Barbara…
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The Bikeriders: From Rebel Without Causes to Hell Angels
MOVIE INFO: THE BIKERIDERS captures a rebellious time in America when the culture and people were changing. After a chance encounter at a local bar, strong-willed Kathy (Jodie Comer) is inextricably drawn to Benny (Austin Butler), the newest member of Midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals led by the enigmatic Johnny (Tom Hardy). Much like the…
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Jackpot: Awkwafina and John Cena Fun Ku You.
MOVIE INFO: In the near future, a ‘Grand Lottery’ has been newly established in California — the catch: kill the winner before sundown to legally claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot. When Katie Kim (Awkwafina) moves to Los Angeles, she mistakenly finds herself with the winning ticket. Desperate to survive the hordes of jackpot hunters, she…
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Alien: Romulus: A Greatest Hits Version That Won’t Make You Scream
MOVIE INFO: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. REVIEW: Alien: Romulus doesn’t really try to recreate the series. It’s content to recycle the greatest hits. It’s filler. The original 1979 masterpiece has…
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It Ends With Us: It Never Should Have Started With Them.
MOVIE INFO: IT ENDS WITH US, the first Colleen Hoover novel adapted for the big screen, tells the story of Lily Bloom, a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life in Boston and chase a lifelong dream of opening her own business. A chance meeting with charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid…
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Exhuma: Exhuming All the Layers of Korean Horror
MOVIE INFO: When a renowned shaman (KIM Go-Eun) and her protégé (Lee Do-hyun) are hired by a wealthy, enigmatic family, they begin investigating the cause of a disturbing supernatural illness that affects only the first-born children of each generation. With the help of a knowledgeable mortician (YOO Hai-jin) and the country’s most revered geomancer (CHOI…
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Trap: Watch Out, It’s a Parent Trap!
MOVIE INFO: A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event REVIEW: I suspect every kid has suspected, at one point, their dad might be a serial killer. The more he loved you, the more you thought he wanted to kill you. …
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Lousy Carter: Blackboard Bungle
MOVIE INFO: In LOUSY CARTER, David Krumholtz (OPPENHEIMER) stars as a ne’er-do-well literature professor adrift on a soulless college campus who learns he only has six months to live. With the clock ticking, will he change his ways? Probably not. REVIEW: Lousy Carter is a comedy with a cruel hum- a feel bad satire. It…
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Femme: Bad Boy, Good-Bad Boy-Girl
MOVIE INFO: With his performances as Aphrodite Banks, Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Candyman) has a place among London’s celebrated drag artists. One night after a show, he steps out to get some cigarettes and is brutally attacked by a man (George MacKay, 1917), out with a gang of his friends. Although Jules is able to recover…
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Wicked Little Letters: Primly, Properly, Profane
MOVIE INFO: A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbors: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents…
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Deadpool and Wolverine: Fighting Against and To the Metaverse
MOVIE INFO: Deadpool’s peaceful existence comes crashing down when the Time Variance Authority recruits him to help safeguard the multiverse. He soon unites with his would-be pal, Wolverine, to complete the mission and save his world from an existential threat. REVIEW: Deadpool and Wolverine works nicely when the Merch with the Mouth (Ryan Reynolds as…
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Land of Bad: A Russell Crowe Almost Worth Droning on About
MOVIE INFO: Starring Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth, a covert Special Forces operation in the South Philippines spirals into a brutal 48-hour battle for survival. When an elite extraction team is ambushed deep in enemy territory, rookie officer Kinney (Hemsworth) is left outnumbered but determined to leave no man behind. With an air strike closing…
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Young Woman and the Sea: Swimming through Rough and Familiar Waters
MOVIE INFO: Daisy Ridley stars as the accomplished swimmer who was born to immigrant parents in New York City in 1905. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the…
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Love Lies Bleeding: K Stew Finds Crazy Love
MOVIE INFO: Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family. REVIEW: I like it when Kristen Stewart’s acting…
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Twisters: Getting Past the Past
MOVIE INFO: Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the…
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The Long Game : Raising the Game for Minority Equality
MOVIE INFO: In 1956, JB Peña and his wife moved to the small town of Del Rio, TX, partly for a job as a school superintendent, but mostly to fulfill JB’s dream of joining the prestigious, all-white Del Rio Country Club. So when JB is rejected on the basis of his skin color, he is…
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Etheria Film Night 2024 on Shudder: 9 Horror Shorts by Women Directors
MOVIE INFO: The 2024 edition of world’s best showcase of new horror, sci-fi, and fantasy directed by women is here! Enjoy these joyously bizarre tales of terror, comedy, and surreal pizza gods. Films directed by Jillian Corsie, Sarah Wisner, Sean Temple, Annie Girard, Diana Wright, Faye Jackson, Sofie Somoroff, Talia Shea Levin, Grace Rex, Kelsey…
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Scrambled: A Sharp Tongue, Soft Belly Fertility Comedy
MOVIE INFO: Quintessential eternal bridesmaid Nellie Robinson (Leah McKendrick) constantly finds herself between weddings, baby showers, and bad dates. When she begins to feel like the clock is ticking and is faced with bleak romantic prospects, Nellie decides to freeze her eggs — setting her on an empowering journey to a brave new world where…
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The Neon Highway: Traveling the Road of Broken Dreams on the Old Country Road
MOVIE INFO: When singer-songwriter Wayne meets washed-up country music legend Claude, the two head back to Nashville for a second chance. REVIEW: Beau Bridges wants to upstage the success of old brother Jeff’s Oscar winning success from Crazy Heart, where he played a fading country music star trying to make a comeback. Beau plays the…
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Arcadian: The Kids Get All the Breaks
MOVIE INFO: In a near future, life on Earth has been decimated. Paul (Nicolas Cage) and his twin teenage sons, Thomas (Jaeden Martell) and Joseph (Maxwell Jenkins), have been living a half-life — tranquility by day and torment by night. When the sun sets, ferocious creatures of the night awaken and consume all living souls…
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Fly Me to the Moon: Faking It Until You Make It.
MOVIE INFO: Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, Fly Me To The Moon is a sharp, stylish romantic comedy set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole…
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The Monk and the Gun: A Political Fable of Knowing Shangra-La
MOVIE INFO: An American travels into Bhutan in search of a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again. REVIEW: The Monk and the Gun is a Buddhist comedy about knowing and doing the right thing in the…
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Back to Black: Sid and Nancy Redux
MOVIE INFO: The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black. Told from Amy’s perspective and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film follows the remarkable woman behind the phenomenon and the tumultuous relationship at the center of one of the most legendary…
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The Imaginary: The Case for Child Imagination for Life
MOVIE INFO: Rudger is a boy no one can see, imagined by Amanda to share her thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger, suddenly alone, arrives at The Town of Imaginaries, where forgotten Imaginaries live and find work, he faces a mysterious threat. REVIEW: Imaginary friends are having a renaissance. If , released a few months …
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Despicable Me 4: Minions All The Way
MOVIE INFO: In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s Despicable Me 4. Following the 2022 summer blockbuster phenomenon of Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, which earned almost $1 billion worldwide, the biggest global animated…
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This Closeness: Fighting Through the Scrim of Life
MOVIE INFO: Tensions rise when a couple stays at the home of a reclusive host, with the three entering an intimate battle to gain and regain territory. REVIEW: I was expecting This Closeness, a film about a couple who rent an Airbnb apartment they have to share with the current shy and nerdy tenant for…
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Space Cadet: NASA Certified Legally Blonde
MOVIE INFO: Rex, a Florida party girl, turns out to be the only hope for the NASA space program after a fluke puts her in training with other candidates who may have better resumés, but don’t have her smarts, heart, and moxie. REVIEW: The pitch for Space Cadet must have mentioned that it was Legally…
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Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F: Getting Old With Style
MOVIE INFO: Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back on the beat in Beverly Hills. After his daughter’s life is threatened, she (Taylour Paige) and Foley team up with a new partner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and John Taggart (John Ashton) to turn up the heat and uncover a conspiracy.…
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Sometimes I Think About Dying: Getting Around to Feels
MOVIE INFO: Lost on the dreary Oregon coast, Fran finds solace in her cubicle, listening to the constant hum of officemates and occasionally daydreaming to pass the time. She is ghosting through life, unable to pop her bubble of isolation, when a friendly new coworker, Robert, persistently tries to connect with her. Though it goes…
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Marmalade: Bonnie and Clyde with a Twist
MOVIE INFO: MARMALADE is an edge-of-the-seat crime-tinged romance tale. Recently incarcerated Baron (Joe Keery) strikes up a friendship with cellmate Otis (Aldis Hodge), a man with a well-versed history of prison breaks. As the pair hatch an escape plan together, Baron recalls the story of how he met Marmalade (Camila Morrone), the love of his…
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Bleeding Love: Real Life Father and Daughter Dealing with Their Cinematic Story
MOVIE INFO: After a drastic incident in her life, a young woman (Clara McGregor) embarks on an impromptu road trip with her estranged father (Ewan McGregor). En route to their destination of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the two are forced to confront the issues of their past that have led to their frail relationship, while…
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Problemista: She’s a Real Problem.
MOVIE INFO: Alejandro (Julio Torres) is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast (Tilda Swinton) becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.…
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A Quiet Place: Day One: A Family Needs a Pet to Work
MOVIE INFO: Experience the day the world went quiet. REVIEW: Every family needs a pet to make it seem complete. In A Quiet Place Day One, a movie where silence is both golden and a survival necessity, that animal can only be a cat, the only nonhuman creature that won’t scream or move a muscle…
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Chattanooga FF: A Guide to Becoming an Elm Tree: Respecting the Grief of Folklore…..
MOVIE INFO: Padraig (James Healy-Meaney), is a lonely and grief-stricken man who seeks the help of a mysterious carpenter names John (Gerry Wade), to help him build a coffin for his already dead and buried wife. REVIEW: I don’t mind slow films that take their time to tell their story fully visually, especially ones like…
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Chattanooga FF: CANVAS: Sibling Rivalry as Revenge Art
MOVIE NFO EVE, a reclusive, wealthy and disgraced former child-prodigy artist, longs to repair the broken relationship with her sister, MARISSA, a successful yet currently insolvent painter. Largely estranged since their father’s suicide decades ago, Eve efforts to draw Marissa back in by announcing her plan to donate three highly valuable paintings to a meager…
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Chattanooga FF: The Wheel of Heaven: Getting the Circle Game
MOVIE NFO A woman caught up in predatory relationships is thrown into a multi-layered world of choices after she discovers a mystical book in a thrift store. REVIEW: The Kentucky Fried Movie, a skit movie made in 1977, was a guilty pleasure of mine when I was a bored and lonely college student. It was…
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Chattanooga FF: Sweet Relief: Getting Through It Is the Relief
MOVIE NFO A woman’s dangerous inclinations, a sadistic child killer, and a panic surrounding an online murder challenge reveal the insidious violence of a small New England town. REVIEW: Sweet Relief has a good beginning and ending but a miserable middle. It’s a horror film about the disaffection of the online generation. Yet, most of…
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Chattanooga FF: Off Ramp: Getting to True Juggalo
MOVIE INFO: A couple of lovable, degenerate Juggalos must sojourn through America’s hellish underbelly to The Gathering of the Juggalos, the one place on earth they feel accepted REVIEW: What makes Off Ramp so enjoyable to watch is its twisted take on Deliverance, the backwood revenge story that features every racist hillbilly assumption and stereotype. …
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Someone Dies!: Forgets How Weird this Can Be
MOVIE INFO: REVIEW: Someone Dies! blends dark comedy with the crime and sci-fi genre. It’s a cheap one set flick that takes place inside an apartment. Detective Jim Jenkins (Joseph Graham) has a problem: he has received a note informing him that his daughter has been kidnapped. In order to get her back, he must…
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Chattanooga FF: Quantum Suicide: The Infinite Possibilities of Going Crazy and Dying
MOVIE NFO A lone physicist builds a particle accelerator in his garage and embarks on a quest to understand the nature of reality. REVIEW: Quantum Suicide involves the possibilities of death by a gun pointed at your head gong off if rigged to a computer system, a particle accelerator and if life or death is…
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Chattanooga FF: Noclip: Being Dumbass in Liminal Spaces
MOVIE INFO: Two filmmakers set out on an adventure into a creepy old mall, only to find themselves lost in an increasingly claustrophobic maze of hallways, liminal spaces, stairwells and backrooms in this comedic found footage horror film. REVIEW: Mall corridors can be spooky places if you are getting lost in them. I have anxiety…
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Chattanooga FF: Love and Work: An Anti Slacker Comedy
MOVIE INFO: Diane and Fox love to work. Unfortunately, they live in a polarized world where having a job is illegal. REVIEW: Love and Work is an anti-slacker comedy about people who want to and love to work in a society that bans it. It’s a one note film that is spot on about its…
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Chattanooga FF: The Lonely Man with a Ghost Machine: The Imperfect Grief that Haunts Us
MOVIE INFO: The last man on Earth after a global catastrophe finds himself questioning his purpose and sanity as both his dead wife and a mysterious stranger confront him with his past, his present, and whatever future might remain in the wastes of a dead world. REVIEW: The director, Graham Skipper’s The Lonely Man with…
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Chattanooga FF: Cannibal Mukbang: Eating Human Life and Relationships
MOVIE INFO: Shy and looking for love, a man becomes smitten with an outgoing and mysterious woman, who, much to his surprise, reciprocates the attraction. As his feelings for her intensify, so does his unexpected submersion into the woman’s biggest fixation: the wild world of mukbanging. And with it, lots of bloodshed. REVIEW: The poster…
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Chattanooga FF: Daughter of the Sun: Getting to Malick
MOVIE INFO: A 12-year-old girl lives life on the run alongside her father who has Tourette Syndrome. Desperately seeking a normal family life, she befriends a group of outcasts who want to harness a volatile supernatural power her father is hiding. REVIEW: Daughter of the Sun , a fantasy drama about a daughter and her…
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Chattanooga FF:: The Buildout : A Story of Grief from a Young Director Trying to Find Himself
MOVIE INFO: friendship is tested as two women experience something strange in the desert. REVIEW: The Buildout, the first feature film debut of director and writer Zeshaan Yonnus is neither a horror film nor drama with tinges of sci-fi, but a somewhat shakey combination of the two. It tries to bridge the gap between found…
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Mother, May I?: Sons and Mothers and Fiancées, Oh My
MOVIE INFO: Emmett wants to clean and flip his recently deceased mother’s house: get in, get out, and avoid any trauma still lingering from when she abandoned him as a young child. Anya, his fiancé, see’s this as an opportunity to finally force Emmett to deal with his trauma because she believes it is preventing…
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Monster: A Multi-headed Evil
MOVIE INFO: When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges. REVIEW: There…
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Origin: Trying to Get Beyond Just Black and White
MOVIE INFO: While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one of the defining American books of our time REVIEW: Origin is Ava DuVernay’s ambitious adaptation of Caste, former New York Times…
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Ultraman: Rising: Kaiju Rearing for Estranged Families
MOVIE INFO: With Tokyo under siege from rising monster attacks, baseball star Ken Sato reluctantly returns home to take on the mantle of Ultraman. But the titanic superhero meets his match when he is forced to adopt a 35-foot-tall, fire-breathing baby kaiju. Sato must rise above his ego to balance work and parenthood while protecting…
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Housekeeping for Beginners: No Daddy Nearest
MOVIE INFO: From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski comes a story exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters, tiny troublemaker Mia and rebellious teen Vanesa. A battle…
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Dad and Step-Dad: A Comedy Where Even the Kid is Just an Overgrown Adult
MOVIE INFO: Jim and Dave, a dad and a step-dad, have trouble bonding during a 3-day weekend upstate with their son, Branson. REVIEW: Jim (Colin Burgess) and Dave (Anthony Obereck) are the titled Dad and Step-dad who are both desperate for validation with the 13-year-old child in their care. The child, Branson a lumbering bear…
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Inside Out 2: Gettng All the Feels and More
MOVIE INFO: The little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out–but next summer, everything changes when Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 introduces a new Emotion: Anxiety. REVIEW: Anxiety (Maya Hawke) crashes the picture and takes over all other feelings in Inside Out 2, perhaps the most literal, emotionally speaking, of any Pixar…
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ISS: Getting Beyond Earth’s Nuclear Reality
MOVIE INFO: Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling from this, the astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary. REVIEW: Balance is needed to reset allegories of war and peace, oxymoronic harmonious discord in…
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North of Normal: Living through Bad Parenting
MOVIE INFO: NORTH OF NORMAL follows writer Cea Sunrise Person’s unconventional childhood in the wilderness, her complicated relationship with her perpetually pot-smoking teen mom, and her incredible path to a version of normalcy. REVIEW: The Hippie movement gets an even handed judgement through both childhood and young adult eyes in Carly’s Stone film adaptation of…
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Hit Man: Richard Linklater’s Identity Crisis
MOVE INFO: Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater’s sunlit neo-noir stars Glen Powell as strait-laced professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department. Preternaturally gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally dubious territory when he…
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die: Hopefully, Their Last Ride
MOVIE INFO: This Summer, the world’s favorite Bad Boys are back with their iconic mix of edge-of-your seat action and outrageous comedy but this time with a twist: Miami’s finest are now on the run. REVIEW: The Bad Boys franchise has been pretty hit and miss for me, mostly miss. The last one, was a…
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Am I Ok?: Growing Up Not So Well in Your 30’s
MOVIE INFO: Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces that she’s moving from LA to London for a job, Lucy reveals a deeply buried, long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy sort through…
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Under Paris: A Shark Movie Worthy of Its “Jaws”
MOVIE INFO: To save Paris from a bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears in the Seine. REVIEW: Under Paris, a Jaws imitator that takes place in the Seine, comes just in time for the Paris Summer Olympics. It’s a macabre tourist ad more likely to…
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Unidentified Objects: Road Trip Encounters of the Third Kind
MOVIE INFO: Peter is a misanthropic dwarf hiding from the world in his shabby New York City apartment. But an unexpected visit from his upbeat–and possibly unhinged–neighbor Winona forces him out of his shell and onto an impromptu road trip. Their destination? What she believes to be the site of an upcoming alien visitation in…
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T.I.M.: All for the Codex of Love
MOVIE INFO: An engineer begins work on her company’s latest product, an A.I. humanoid called T.I.M. — Technologically. Integrated. Manservant. Things take a turn for the worse when T.I.M.’s servient programming leads to a dangerous obsession with her. REVIEW: A.I. and robots in movie have gone bad for a while now. T.I.M. (Technology Integrated Manservant)…
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Gasoline Rainbow: A Gen Z Road Movie
MOVIE INFO: Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinematic road trip with GASOLINE RAINBOW. Undoubtedly candid yet deeply loving, this is an expansive portrait of the new generation as told in their own words. With high school in the rearview, five…
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Ezra: Autism- All in the Family
MOVIE INFO: EZRA follows Max Bernal (Bobby Cannavale), a stand-up comedian living with his father (Robert De Niro), while struggling to co-parent his autistic son Ezra (introducing William Fitzgerald) with his ex-wife (Rose Byrne). When forced to confront difficult decisions about their son’s future, Max and Ezra embark on a cross-country road trip that has…
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The First Omen: A Worthy Predecessor to the Devil.
MOVIE INFO: When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate. REVIEW: I don’t remember too much of 1976’s…
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One Life: The Other Schindler’s List
MOVIE INFO: Based on the book If It’s Not Impossible…: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, ONE LIFE tells the incredible, emotional true story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton (Johnny Flynn), a young London broker who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race against time, Winton convinces Trevor Chadwick (Alex Sharp) and…
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LaRoy Texas: A Noir Comedy Where Everyone Gets It Mostly Right
MOVIE INFO: Broke and depressed, Ray (John Magaro) is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip (Steve Zahn), he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive. REVIEW: With a crime comedy set in a small Texas town, where everybody is…
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: George Miller Strives for Some Poetic Tragedy Amongst the Road Warrior Wasteland
MOVIE INFO: Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by the Immortan Joe. As the two tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa soon finds herself in a nonstop…
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Atlas: J Lo Shrugged
MOVIE INFO: A brilliant data analyst with a deep distrust of AI finds it may be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry. REVIEW: With Jennifer Lopez alone in an A.I. mech suit for most of her sci-fi flick Atlas, it’s not a big surprise that the story writers…
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Garfield: The Movie: Too Busy for this Lazy Cat
MOVIE INFO: Garfield (voiced by Chris Pratt), the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father — scruffy street cat Vic (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson) — Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining…
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Sentinel: Stealing Some Alien and Terminator Is Bound to Bite this Hack Sci-Fi Flick in the Ass
MOVIE INFO: In 2155, through a multi-dimensional portal, an alien invasion annihilates nearly the entire human race. Some of the people who manage to survive are miners hidden on the dark side of the moon. Years after the invasion, and with the use of new technology, three soldiers are sent back to Earth. Their plan…
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Blackbird, Blackbird, BlackBerry: Finding A Desperate Love in Middle Age Loneliness
MOVIE INFO: Etero, a 48-year-old woman living in a small village in Georgia, has chosen to remain unmarried. She cherishes her freedom, as much as her cakes. Her choice to live alone is often the cause of gossip among her fellow villagers. Unexpectedly, she finds herself falling into a passion with a man and is…
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The Last Stop in Yuma County: A Nihilist Lark that Homages the 30th Anniversary of the Trantino Style
MOVIE INFO: While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty–or cold, hard steel–to protect their bloodstained, ill-begotten fortune. REVIEW: Last Stop in Yuma County…
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Birth/Rebirth: The Joys and Horrors of Co-Parenting a Reanimated Child
MOVIE INFO: Rose (Marin Ireland) is a pathologist who prefers working with corpses over social interaction. She also has an obsession — the reanimation of the dead. Celie (Judy Reyes) is a maternity nurse who has built her life around her bouncy, chatterbox six-year-old daughter, Lila (A.J. Lister). When one tragic night, Lila suddenly falls…
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If: Maybe We All Need Just An Other Sixth Sense
MOVIE INFO: From writer and director John Krasinski, IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends — and what she does with that superpower — as she embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten IFs with their kids. REVIEW: IF has a lot of invisible beings being seen…
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Madame Web: Gets Stuck in Its Spidey Sense
MOVIE INFO: In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing’s most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who develops the power to see the future… and realizes she can use that insight to change it.…
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The Book of Clarence: Getting to Jesus Via Atheism and Mimicry.
MOVIE INFO: Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield) is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, and ultimately discovers that the…
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Eileen: Sudden Fire, Sudden Danger
MOVIE INFO: Eileen is a peculiar young woman — aloof and unfazed by the gloomy nature of her job at the local youth prison. But something in her changes the day that the new counsellor, Dr. Rebecca St. John arrives. She is instantly captivated by Rebecca’s glamorous, enigmatic presence. As the two women grow closer,…
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Biosphere: A Buddy Romcom for the End of the World
MOVIE INFO: In the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity. REVIEW: Biosphere is a buddy film, rom-com and an end of the world (and I’m feeling fine) flick. Billy (Mark Duplass) and Ray (Sterling K. Brown) have been black and white decade long buds. The world…
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: Noa’s Arch
MOVIE INFO: Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a…
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Mother of the Bride: Exes Confesses Their Messes
MOVIE INFO: REVIEW: The worst thing rom-coms do is bring exes back together. Mother of the Bride, starring Brooke Shields and Bejamin Bratt, is one of those exes confesses their messes disaster. The tropical destination this time around is Thailand. The misunderstandings are the same. The situations are the same. The arguing the same. The…
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Kiss the Future: Bono Gets the Compensatory Noble Peace Prize
MOVIE INFO: KISS THE FUTURE, directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain, story by Bill Carter and Cicin-Sain, screenplay by Carter, based on his memoir: “Fools Rush In,” is the story of defiance amid the 1990s siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The film focuses on a vibrant underground community who used music and art to effect…
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Mean Spirited: A Horror Comedy That Tries to Possess the Audience’s Attention Span
MOVIE INFO: SynopsisWhen two estranged friends reconnect, things buried deep down are bound to surface. Wannabe famous vlogger Andrew Castellano sets off for a weekend at the mountain cottage of his former friend-turned famous actor Bryce. Andy has decided to bury the hatchet, but he isn’t quite himself anymore. REVIEW: Co-writer/director/star Jeff Ryan goes to…
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DogLeg: Dilly Dali-ing Around
MOVIE INFO: Amateur director Alan loses his beloved’s dog the morning of an important shoot. A film critic offers some candid observations on a series of incomplete shorts that Alan has spent his own money making. Alan grows desperate for the day to be over as the pursuit of the lost dog and the chaos…
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Turtles All the Way Down: Germs and Infinite Regress Getting in the Way of Teen Love
MOVIE INFO: Turtles All the Way Down tackles anxiety through its 17-year-old protagonist, Aza Holmes. It’s not easy being Aza, but she’s trying… trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, and a good student, all while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts that she cannot control. When she reconnects with Davis,…
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Unfrosted: Pop Tarts Gets the Myth It Almost Desserts
MOVIE INFO: Michigan, 1964. Kellogg’s and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen, Unfrosted stars writer/director Jerry Seinfeld. REVIEW: Jerry Seinfeld on the big screen has only played the disembodied voice of an animated bee. In…
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The Fall Guy: Ryan Gosling Goes Splat in Full Body Glory.
MOVIE INFO: He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and…
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The Idea of You: Being Swifty
MOVIE INFO: SynopsisBased on the acclaimed, contemporary love story of the same name, The Idea of You centers on Solène (Anne Hathaway), a 40-year-old single mom who begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet. When Solène must step in…
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I Have Electric Dreams: Coming of Age in Costa Rica
MOVIE INFO: Eva is a strong-willed, restless 16-year-old girl who lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but desperately wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him as he goes through a second adolescence, she balances between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life and the ruthlessness of the…
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The Five Devils: The Scent of the Past
MOVIE INFO: Eight-year-old Vicky has a mysterious gift: she can recreate any scent she comes across, even that of her beloved mother Joanne. When her estranged aunt suddenly returns to town, the invocation of her fragrance plunges the young girl back in time to unravel a past replete with family secrets and queer romance. REVIEW:…