REVIEW: “Peter Pan and Wendy” (2023)
There wasn’t anything that had me itching for a new Peter Pan movie. I’ve never been a big fan of his story and haven’t really connected with the various movie adaptations we’ve gotten over the years....
View ArticleREVIEW: “Prisoner’s Daughter” (2023)
After premiering at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, director Catherine Hardwicke’s film “Prisoner’s Daughter” is finally getting its proper release. The rather straightforwardly titled...
View ArticleREVIEW: “The Pod Generation” (2023)
Sophie Barthes returns to the director’s chair with “The Pod Generation”, her first feature film since 2014’s “Madame Bovary”. This kinda wacky, oddly alluring, and slyly funny sci-fi satire sees...
View ArticleRETRO REVIEW: “Piranha” (1978)
1978’s “Piranha” was one of many low budget B-movies that happily rode the massive success of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws”. Released only one month after “Jaws 2”, the Joe Dante directed and co-edited...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Priscilla” (2023)
It was a little over one year ago that director Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” hit theaters. The vibrant and stylish biography of music icon Elvis Presley won over both audiences and critics before eventually...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Pain Hustlers” (2023)
Taking on America’s devastating opioid crisis is a noble task for any filmmaker. The epidemic began in the late 1990s when the prescription of opioids for pain management began to spike. Since then...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines” (2023)
I’m not sure how, but the “Pet Sematary” franchise keeps rising from the dead (cheap and obvious pun intended). The latest installment is “Pet Sematary: Bloodlines”, a Paramount+ original movie...
View ArticleREVIEW: “The Promised Land” (2023)
The ever magnetic Mads Mikkelsen delivers yet another awards worthy turn in “The Promised Land”, a Danish historical drama based on Ida Jessen’s book “The Captain and Ann Barbara”. Directed and...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Poor Things” (2023)
For me Yorgos Lanthimos is something like a taste I have yet to acquire. His latest, “Poor Things” won’t do much to change that. If anything it only reinforces my feelings towards a filmmaker with...
View ArticleREVIEW: “Past Lives” (2023)
It took me a while but I finally had the chance to catch up with what has been one of the most talked about movies of the year. “Past Lives” from writer-director Celine Song (in her feature film debut)...
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