The Sweet East, 2023. Directed by Sean Price Williams. Starring Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Simon Rex, Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy O. Harris, Jacob Elordi and Rish Shah. SYNOPSIS: A picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina. She gets her […]
Movie Review – Dumb Money (2023)
Dumb Money, 2023. Directed by Craig Gillespie. Starring Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, Seth Rogen, Vincent D’Onofrio, Dane DeHaan, Myha’la Herrold, Talia Ryder, Olivia Thirlby, Kate Burton, Rushi Kota, Deniz Akdeniz, Noel Tyler Torres, Nicolas Calero, David Faber, and Clancy Brown. SYNOPSIS: Dumb Money is the […]
Movie Review – Do Revenge (2022)
Do Revenge, 2022. Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Starring Camila Mendes, Maya Hawke, Austin Abrams, Rish Shah, Talia Ryder, Ava Capri, Alisha Boe, Paris Berelc, Jonathan Daviss, Maia Reficco, Sophie Turner, Eliza Bennett, Cassady McClincy, Maia Reficco, Rachel Matthews, and Sarah Michelle Geller. SYNOPSIS: Drea and Eleanor agree to go after one another’s bullies. In […]
Maya Hawke and Camila Mendes Do Revenge in teaser for Netflix’s Hitchcockian dark comedy
Netflix has released a teaser trailer for its dark comedy Do Revenge starring Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) and Camila Mendes (Riverdale) from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Someone Great). Do Revenge is a twist on Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Strangers on a Train where two people who meet each other by chance decide to plot murder against […]
SXSW Film Festival 2022 Review – Master
Master, 2022. Written and Directed by Mariama Diallo. Starring Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Amber Gray, Talia Ryder, Talia Balsam, Ella Hunt, Noa Fisher, Kara Young, Bruce Altman, Jennifer Dundas, Joel de la Fuente, and Anna Van Patten. SYNOPSIS: Two African American women begin to share disturbing experiences at a predominantly white college in New England. […]
Regina Hall stars in trailer for horror-thriller Master
Following its premiere at Sundance earlier this year, Amazon Prime Video has released a poster and trailer for Master, a horror-thriller following three women as they strive to find their place at an elitist New England university that may be hiding a sinister secret. The film marks the feature debut for writer-director Mariama Diallo and […]
Movie Review – West Side Story (2021)
West Side Story, 2021. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Rita Moreno, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Corey Stoll, Brian d’Arcy James, Josh Andrés Rivera, Mike Faist, Ana Isabelle, Paloma Garcia-Lee, Maddie Ziegler, Andrea Burns, Kyle Allen, Curtiss Cook, Jamie Harris, Iris Menas, Sean Harrison Jones, Patrick Higgins, Julius Anthony Rubio, Ricardo Zayas, […]
2022 Sundance Film Festival Review – Master
Master, 2022. Written and directed by Mariama Diallo. Starring Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Talia Ryder, Talia Balsam, and Amber Gray. SYNOPSIS: Two Black women begin to share disturbing experiences at a predominantly white college in New England. One suspects that Mariama Diallo’s feature debut Master is going to receive its fair share of comparisons to 2019’s […]
Video Review – Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is a delight, even with its cringe story
EJ Moreno offers up his take on Spielberg’s West Side Story… This holiday season, West Side Story is back in cinemas, and legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg is tackling the iconic musical. Can his stellar direction overcome the film’s profoundly flawed story? Spielberg sure tries to razzle-dazzle you enough to forget the horrid love story at […]
Movie Review – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always, 2020. Directed by Eliza Hittman. Starring Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Kelly Chapman, Sharon Van Etten, Ryan Eggold and Drew Seltzer. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl and her cousin travel from small-town Pennsylvania to New York City in order for her to have an abortion. If there has been a winner […]
