Thoroughbreds, 2017.Directed by Cory Finley. Starring Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks and Kaili Vernoff.SYNOPSIS:Unlikely friends at school, Amanda (Olivia Cooke) and Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) drifted apart, but are re-united when Amanda’s mother pays Lily to give her daughter tuition. Lily lives with her mother and dominant stepfather Mark (Paul Sparks) who she […]
Movie Review – Finding Your Feet (2017)
Finding Your Feet, 2017.Directed by Richard Loncraine. Starring Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Joanna Lumley, Phoebe Nicholls, David Heyman, Josie Lawrence, Sian Thomas, and John Sessions. SYNOPSIS:On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her […]
Movie Review – Beirut (2018)
Beirut, 2018.Directed by Brad Anderson. Starring Jon Hamm, Rosamond Pike, Dean Norris, Mark Pellegrino, Idir Chender, Shea Whigham, Douglas Hodge, Jonny Coyne, Alon Aboutboul, and Larry Pine.SYNOPSIS:Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.Beirut is a competently […]
Movie Review – Blockers (2018)
Blockers, 2018.Directed by Kay Cannon. Starring John Cena, Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon, Ramona Young, Gina Gershon, Miles Robbins, Gary Cole, Graham Phillips, Jimmy Bellinger, T.C. Carter, and Hannibal Buress.SYNOPSIS:Three parents try to stop their daughters from having sex on Prom night.Preparing young adults for their first sexual encounter is […]
Movie Review – Sanctuary (2016)
Sanctuary, 2016.Directed by Len Collin. Starring Kieran Coppinger, Charlene Kelly, Robert Doherty, and Amy-Joyce Hastings.SYNOPSIS:Two people engage in a romantic tryst, despite the watchful and disapproving eyes of society and the legal system.Sophie (Charlene Kelly) and Larry (Kieran Coppinger) are two people in love in this funny and moving Irish comedy drama. Based on a stage play […]
Blu-ray Review – Amazon Women On The Moon (1987)
Amazon Women on the Moon, 1987.Directed by John Landis/Joe Dante/Carl Gottlieb/Robert K. Weiss/Peter Horton. Starring Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer, Arsenio Hall, Peter Horton, Griffin Dunne, Joe Pantoliano, Forrest J. Ackerman, Sybil Danning, Henry Silva, Carrie Fisher, Steve Guttenberg, Jenny Agutter, Dick Miller, Paul Bartel, and Russ Meyer.SYNOPSIS:An anthology of comedy shorts and sketches based around […]
Movie Review – A Quiet Place (2018)
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 known as beings that […]
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 resulting in preaching to […]
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, Kara […]
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 a singular piece. The […]
