Honey – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview An angel of death gets too close to one “patient” and it leads to her rethinking the path she set herself on. Trigger Warning(s): Suicide (Discussion) Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Movies
Discover our top picks and latest reviews spanning from blockbuster hits to indie films, shorts, and festival premieres across various platforms.
Home – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Home is a cute movie, with tear jerker moments but unfortunately, the music used throughout the film seems very misplaced. Director: Tim Johnson Writer: Tom J. Astle & Matt Ember (screenplay) | Adam Rex (Source Material “The True Meaning of Smekday”) Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Hit The Road: India – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Two men venture through India and give us stunning views, but sadly no culture. Review (with Spoilers) I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to see this film by the film studio handling distribution, Manana Films and what hooked me was the trailer. Seeing the stunning landscape of India, as well as…
Hit Team – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A very campy action/comedy which requires a perverted sense of humor. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Triple 9 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
What for almost half of the film seems like an action movie which uses gun fire as an alarm clock eventually evolves into a decent, if not sometimes mindless, action film.
It Had To Be You – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview It Had To Be You reminds you of Cristin Milioti’s charm and makes you hope she’ll eventually have a starring role in a television series. Review (with Spoilers) Noted Actor(s) Sonia (Cristin Milioti) | Chris (Dan Sofer) | Lara (Rachel York)
A Girl Like Grace – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While probably written with good intentions, the execution of A Girl Like Grace is a bit off.
Love – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Love presents unfiltered passion, sex, intimacy, affection, and all that encompasses being in love with someone and f—ing it all up.
Mad Max: Fury Road – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Mad Max: Fury Road seems more about providing quality action, and a foundation for sequels, than a standalone movie which can stand the tests of time. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Lucy – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A young woman is forced to become a drug mule, but when the drugs leak she is given the capability of using 100% of her brain function. Review (with Spoilers) When it comes to actresses, Scarlett Johansson is probably one the most consistent. For whether she is in the Marvel blockbusters, films like Her,…
Maggie – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Maggie is the type of film which reminds you that despite how many movies, TV series and video games focus on zombies, there are still ways to make stories involving them remain fresh enough to be enjoyable. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Mandela: Long Road to Freedom presents the story of a man’s journey and how his pursuit of freedom changed over a lifetime. Trigger Warning(s): Violence against women and children; racial triggers; Review (with Spoilers) After seeing Winnie, it was hard to not look forward to this take on Nelson Mandela. With Idris Elba championing…
Magic in the Moonlight – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A man, who is a magician for a living, falls under the spell of a young girl while trying to debunk her claims of being a psychic medium. Review (with Spoilers) Though not a huge fan of Woody Allen’s classic films, such as Annie Hall, I do find myself interested in his more modern…
Maps to the Stars – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview The lives of one seriously messed up family, and one washed up actress, are explored as mental illness, and a bad attitude, ruins their careers. Review (with Spoilers) I cannot fully remember how I found out about this movie, so I can only assume I saw the name of it on IndieWire. With that…
Manhattan Night – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Finding a girl even great detectives couldn’t find creates a lot of notoriety, one which Porter Wren strays from since he feels he only got lucky. But being that there is a video circulating that his employer and a girl he just met wants, he finds himself dragged into their madness and struggles to unravel…
Low Down – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A rather slow film which explores the relationship between a man and daughter. The man being an accomplished jazz musician with a drug addiction, and the daughter seemingly aimless. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Marfa Girl – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview At worse, Marfa Girl is just another Larry Clark film featuring actors who look like teenagers, maybe are teenagers, having sex and odd conversations. Though, at best, it captures the peculiarities of living in a small town in which there is nothing to do so everyone is either having sex, getting high, or taking…
White Girl – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
A Midwestern girl comes to New York for college and finds herself experiencing far more than she probably originally planned.
The Best Man Holiday – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview The Best Man Holiday delivers a dramedy which reminds you why the 90s/ early 00s was a renaissance for Black films. Review (with Spoilers) I have probably watched the first movie, The Best Man, at least 5 to 6 times since it came out. It was funny, presented new angles for Black actors, and…
The Age of Adaline – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview While another example of how rape culture is infused in the romance genre, through stalking in this case, it is hard to deny that a piece of you wants to forget the beginning of the film’s romance to focus on its present and future. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
The Benefactor – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview What begins as something interesting in which you expect an old man seeking redemption slowly spirals into the tale of a guilt-ridden drug addict with possible arrested development. Trigger Warning(s): Drug Addiction and Self-Harm (Cutting)
The Blue Hour – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Plot Overview What starts as just a hookup becomes so much more, especially as dead bodies begin to be discovered. Rating: Skip It Trigger Warning(s): Dead Animals and Gunshots Review Summary My expectations for this film changed multiple times from finding out it existed to the discovery, mostly due to me not watching the trailer….
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
The turtles are back and while they remain comical as ever, they take being ninjas more seriously and are a bit more violent than past iterations.
Tar – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
What maybe perhaps one of the most boring movies I’ve ever seen.
Tangerine – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
When a young woman, fresh from prison, learns her boyfriend cheated on her, she goes all around town to find the woman he cheated on her with, and then him, and all the while her best friend watches the drama unfold.
Tale of Tales – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Plot Overview Three separate stories, featuring two different kings and one queen, exhibit the extent of their madness and their attempts to either rule over their offspring or those who would dare deny their libido. Rating: Skip It Trigger Warning(s): Jump Scares, Blood, and Rape Review Summary Films like Tale of Tales are the main…
Syrup – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Image, marketing and sex(ism). That pretty much that sums up Syrup. Review (with Spoilers) What drew me to this film was a .gif set I’ve been seeing on Tumblr for months dealing with the Amber Heard’s character giving advice to women on honing the various labels given to them and combining them to be…
Project Almanac (Welcome to Yesterday) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While Project Almanac begins weak, but once the romance between David and Jessie picks up, you get some quality entertainment.
Princess – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A troubling relationship between a child and her stepfather goes ignored and we watch her means of coping. Trigger Warning(s): Pedophilia & Rape Characters Worth Noting Adar (Shira Haas) | Michael (Ori Pfeffer) | Alma (Keren Mor) | Alan (Adar Zohar-Hanetz)
My Other Mother – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview With a young woman knowing for decades she was adopted, she decides to finally take the time to meet her parents. Review (with Spoilers) To be quite honest, I was a bit hesitant to watch this since the movie premiered on a religious station and, to put it softly, I don’t find programs or…
Nebraska – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Picture a less dramatic August Osage County and you pretty much have Nebraska. Review (with Spoilers) The sole reason I looked into this movie was so that I could claim I saw all the movies nominated for best performance by an actor, and actress, in either a lead or supporting role. With that said,…
Night Has Settled – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A privileged child learns his maternal figure may possibly leave him, leading to a shift in his character. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Night Moves – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Three wannabe eco-activist decide to blow up a damn without thinking of the possible human consequences. Review (with Spoilers) In Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard’s second outing together this year, the first being Very Good Girls, the two of them are some form of eco-terrorists. Not on the level of Ellen Page and Alexander…
My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview While I won’t claim to be familiar with French cinema’s tropes, clichés, and what have you, based off what I have watched and perhaps reviewed here, I can definitely say that those familiar with French tragic romances will find little new here. Rating: TV Viewing Trigger Warning(s): Blackface Characters Worth Noting Paul (Quentin Dolmaire…
Newlyweeds – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Newlyweeds is a quick love story which finds an outsider, namely weed, being what brings two people together and what pushes them apart. Review (with Spoilers) This is one of those films which pop up on your radar and because it isn’t coming out anywhere close, or is too expensive where available in theaters,…
Nerve – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
If there were ever a movie to make a case for virtual reality being part of your big-screen experience, this would be it. In fact, I would say this movie has the potential to be a sleeper hit if marketed right.
Wish I Was Here – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
A man trying to turn his fantasies into reality is forced to face he may be on the wrong path to happiness.
X-Men: Apocalypse – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Once again a mutant with a superiority complex shall rise, and Magneto will be a part of it because he is forbidden from having a truly happy ending. Rating: TV Viewing Trigger Warning(s): Blood (gore) & Body Horror Characters Worth Noting Charles Xavier/ Professor X (James McAvoy) | Magneto/Erik (Michael Fassbender) | Jean Grey…
When The Bough Breaks – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Since 2014, maybe even before that, there has been a movie starring familiar Black actors dealing with someone crazy every September. No Good Deed started the trend and now When The Bough Breaks continues it. And just like the rest of those movies, unless you see it in a theater with folks giving commentary it…