American Ultra – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview American Ultra may appear like a simple Stoner Action/ Comedy film, but it does progressively get complex as time wears on.
Movies
Discover our top picks and latest reviews spanning from blockbuster hits to indie films, shorts, and festival premieres across various platforms.
America Sniper – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A film in which we see how far patriotism, and military culture, can take one man seemingly willing to risk it all at the cost of quite a few lives. Trigger Warning(s): Shooting of Children, 9/11 Imagery, and Dismembered Bodies Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
If you want something a little different in comparison to most romantic movies out there, but isn’t so different it is weird or off-putting, you may want to check Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong.
The Divergent Series: Allegiant – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview If you have seen the recent Maze Runner films, then The Divergent Series: Allegiant may seem a bit too familiar and certainly not the standout amongst the young adult novel adaptations of recent memory. Trigger Warning(s): Blood and guns
American Hustle – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A con is played featuring politicians, mobsters, the FBI and two people with a complicated relationship. Review (with Spoilers) After Silver Linings Playbook, it is hard to not be curious about David O. Russell’s new production featuring the stars of his last movie. Mind you, Jennifer Lawrence is in a smaller role, and Robert…
All The Wilderness – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A young man, dealing with the death of his father, finds himself many misfits to bond and spend time with. Leading to him uncovering what has led him down this path we see him on. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Avengers: Age of Ultron – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Age of Ultron maybe one of the first of Marvel’s films to show why making each film part of one long arcing story may not be the best ideas. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Afternoon Delight – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview When a woman tries to reinvigorate her life by temporarily adopting a stripper, she gets more than she bargained for.
After The Dark (The Philosophers) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Within a Philosophy classroom, containing exemplary students, a game of “what if” is played to test the students beyond the subject of Philosophy.
Complete Unknown – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A woman from a man’s past, long since a memory but not forgotten, returns after 15 years and so begins the questioning of why she left and where she went? Trigger Warning(s): Animal Carcass
Adult World – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Adult World I won’t necessarily call a coming of age film, but more so a wake-up call. Review (with Spoilers) Adult World is one of the many films I wanted to see at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival that I was unable to. But, in Adult World’s case, it wasn’t a timing issue, but…
Addicted – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview When a woman finds her husband unable to please her like she wants, she ventures out to find some men who can. Trigger Warning: Rape scene Review (with Spoilers) Before 50 Shades of Grey was synonymous with mainstream erotica, there was the author Zane. Someone who wrote erotic books featuring Black characters and even…
About Time – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Despite being advertised as a romantic movie, the real focus is on the relationship between brother and sister, as well as son and dad. Review (with Spoilers) For me, the main draw was seeing “From the creator of Love Actually” on the poster, as well as seeing Bill Nighy and Rachel McAdams’ name attached….
About Last Night – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A movie where two couples are trying to figure out when friends with benefits, become a full-fledged relationship. Review (with Spoilers) In Kevin Hart’s 2nd feature of the year, he reunited with Michael Ealy and Regina Hall to bring us a remake of a film that I honestly never saw. But, with Kevin Hart…
About Elly – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview With one woman’s lie, one’s disappearance, and tensions high, you are presented a Muslim version of what seems like a familiar story. Director: Asghar Farhadi Writer: Asghar Farhadi (screenplay), Azad Jafarian, and Asghar Farhadi (story) Review (with Spoilers) – Below
About Alex – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A group of college friends congregates after one of their own attempt suicide. Trigger Warning(s): Suicide
Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Aaliyah’s rise to stardom is chronicled but without the essential things needed for a decent biopic. Review (with Spoilers) With all the negative press about the movie, I was certainly not expecting a film like CrazySexyCool. However, I was hoping it would perhaps at least be like Jimi: All Is By My Side and…
A Thousand Times Good Night – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview When your career deals with being an observer, it makes the moments in which you are expected to be a participant difficult. Review (with Spoilers) Thanks to watching The Graham Norton Show, in which star Juliette Binoche was amongst the guest, I found out about this movie. It should be noted, though, another big…
A Birder’s Guide to Everything – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A year and a half after a boy’s mother dies, his father remarries and with his dad partly moving on, the son decides to go off and connect with his mom through the career she loved.
A Perfect Day – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview It’s 1995 and somewhere in the Balkans a group of aid workers are looking for a rope to get a body out of a well. Pretty much, outside of some bickering between two people who used to mess around with each other, that’s the movie.
