A Quiet Place, 2018. Directed by John Krasinski. Starring Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe. SYNOPSIS: A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound. A Quiet Place presents one of the worst possible scenarios to conceive and bring into the world a baby (also […]
DVD Review – Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016)
Score: A Film Music Documentary, 2016. Directed by Matt Schrader. Featuring Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, James Cameron, Trent Reznor, Quincy Jones, and Howard Shore. SYNOPSIS: A documentary detailing the role of the film score and the people who create them. Reviewing a documentary can often be a futile exercise, more often than not […]
Movie Review – Isle of Dogs (2018)
Isle Of Dogs, 2018. Directed By Wes Anderson Featuring the voice talents of Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Akira Takayama, Frances McDormand, Greta Gerwig, Scarlett Johansson, Yoko Ono, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, Tilda Swinton, Akira Ito, Ken Watanabe, Liev Schreiber, Courtney B. Vance, Fisher Stevens, […]
Movie Review – Final Portrait (2017)
Final Portrait, 2017. Written and Directed by Stanley Tucci. Starring Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Sylvie Testud, Tony Shalhoub, Clémence Poésy, and James Faulkner. SYNOPSIS: The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti. The creative process for artists is a nightmare. This sentiment has been explored time and time again, but rarely so intimate to […]
Movie Review – Gemini (2018)
Gemini, 2018. Written and Directed by Aaron Katz. Starring Lola Kirke, Zoe Kravitz, John Cho, Greta Lee, Nelson Franklin, Michelle Forbes, Ricki Lake, Reeve Carney, James Ransone, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Todd Louiso, Marianne Randon, and Gabriela Flores. SYNOPSIS: A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. […]
SXSW Movie Review – Heavy Trip (2018)
Heavy Trip, 2018. Directed by Juuso Laatio and Jukka Vidgren. Starring Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Antti Heikkinen and Max Ovaska. SYNOPSIS: Turo is trying to overcome his fears by leading the most unknown heavy metal band in Finland, Impaled Rektum, to the hottest metal festival of Norway. The journey includes heavy metal, grave robbing, Viking […]
SXSW Movie Review – The Breaker Upperers (2018)
The Breaker Upperers, 2018. Directed by Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek. Starring Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek, James Rolleston, Celia Pacquola, and Ana Scotney. SYNOPSIS: Two women cynical in love, set up an agency to break couples up as a way to avoid letting go and moving on with their lives. Breaking up with someone […]
Movie Review – Ready Player One (2018)
Ready Player One, 2018. Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Mckenna Grace, Win Morisaki, Susan Lynch, and Philip Zhao SYNOPSIS: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he […]
Movie Review – Journey’s End (2018)
Journey’s End, 2018. Directed by Saul Dibb. Starring Asa Butterfield, Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge, Robert Glenister, Miles Jupp, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Jake Curran, Rupert Wickham, Oliver Dimsdale, Nicholas Agnew, Andy Gathergood, Adam Colborne, Derek Barr, and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of […]
Second Opinion – Blockers (2018)
Blockers, 2018. Directed by Kay Cannon. Starring John Cena, Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, Geraldine Viswanathan, Kathryn Newton, and Gideon Adlon. SYNOPSIS: When three inseparable best friends decide that they want to lose their virginity on Prom Night, their intrusive parents do all they can to ensure that it doesn’t happen. From the outside, Blockers appears […]
