Like Me, 2017. Directed by Robert Mockler. Starring Addison Timlin, Ian Nelson, Larry Fessenden, Jeremy Gardener, and Nicolette Pierini. SYNOPSIS: A loner embarks upon a crime spree that she broadcasts on social media for the world to watch. Ah, social media, that great big boogeyman who we long to escape but constantly find ourselves running […]
Movie Review – Tehran Taboo (2017)
Tehran Taboo, 2017. Written and Directed by Ali Soozandah. Featuring the voice talents of Elmira Rafizadeh, Bilal Yasar, Arash Marandi, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Alireza Bayram, Sasan Behroozian, Farhad Abadinejad, Siir Eloglu, Hasan Ali Mete, Roxana Rahnama, Morteza Tavakoli, and Thomas Nash. SYNOPSIS: In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, […]
Blu-ray Review – Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, 2018. Directed by Sam Liu. Featuring the voice talents of Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Carpenter, Anthony Head, Scott Peterson, John DiMaggio, Grey DeLisle, and Yuri Lowenthal. SYNOPSIS: Based on the graphic novel by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight envisions Batman in the Victorian Age as he chases down famed serial killer […]
Movie Review – Black Panther (2018)
Black Panther, 2018. Directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K. Brown, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, and Andy Serkis. SYNOPSIS: T’Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, […]
Movie Review – Detective Chinatown 2 (2018)
Detective Chinatown 2, 2018. Written and Directed by Chen Sicheng. Starring Wang Baoqiang, Liu Haoran, Xiao Yang, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Michael Pitt, and Tsumabuki Satoshi. SYNOPSIS: When the case of New York Chinatown godfather Uncle Qi’s missing son turns into a murder investigation, the detective duo Tang and Qin team up again to hunt down […]
Movie Review – Have a Nice Day (2017)
Have a Nice Day, 2017. Written and Directed by Liu Jian. Featuring the voice talents of Changlong Zhu, Siming Yang, Kai Cao, and Xiaofeng Ma. SYNOPSIS: A city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draws several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict. Money makes the […]
Movie Review – I, Tonya (2017)
I, Tonya, 2017. Directed by Craig Gillespie. Starring Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, Sebastian Stan, Paul Walter Hauser, Caitlin Carver, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson. SYNOPSIS: The true story of Tonya Harding, who was the world’s best female figure skater despite a deprived background. She found her career derailed after she was implicated in a brutal […]
Movie Review – Face 2 Face (2016)
Face 2 Face, 2016. Directed by Matthew Toronto. Starring Daniela Bobadilla and Daniel Amerman. SYNOPSIS: Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret. In sophomore year of high school, I […]
DVD Review – Brakes (2016)
Brakes, 2016 Directed by Mercedes Grower Starring Julia Davis, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Kerry Fox, Steve Oram, Paul McGann, Kate Hardie SYNOPSIS: A two-part semi-improvised film examining couples as they break-up and meet in and around London. Relationship break-ups can be messy. And so too can film-making, particularly if an improvisational freedom is allowed too […]
DVD Review – A Caribbean Dream (2017)
A Caribbean Dream, 2017. Directed by Shakirah Bourne. Starring Adrian Green, Susannah Harker, Sam Gillett, Jherad Alleyne, Marina Bye, Patrick Michael Foster, and Aden Gillett. SYNOPSIS: A reworking of the Shakespeare fairy tale “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, set in a modern day Barbados. A Caribbean Dream offers a fresh approach to telling the Shakespeare comedic fairy tale A Midsummer Night’s Dream. […]
