She’s Just a Shadow, 2019. Directed by Adam Sherman. Starring Tao Okamoto, Haruka Abe, Kihiro, Kentez Asaka, Mercedes Maxwell, and Marcus Johnson. SYNOPSIS: A Tokyo crime ring addicted to gun fights, kinky sex, and drug-filled parties is targeted by a vicious, sexist serial killer. Adam Sherman has crafted an energetic if derivative neo-noir set in […]
Movie Review – Ophelia (2019)
Ophelia, 2019. Directed by Claire McCarthy. Starring Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, George MacKay, Clive Owen, Tom Felton, Sebastian de Souza, Devon Terrell, Daisy Head, Dominic Mafham, Anna Rust, Mia Quiney, and Martin Angerbauer. SYNOPSIS: A female-friendly adaptation of Hamlet imagining what would happen if Ophelia lived and was more actively involved in the story – […]
Is Inclusion Enough? What the MCU can learn from Joss Whedon’s Angel
Christian Jimenez on what Marvel can learn from Joss Whedon’s Angel… Spider-Man: Far From Home represents the official end of Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It also coincides on a curious beginning and end. In Avengers: Endgame, Marvel finally introduced an openly gay character onscreen, and Marvel President Kevin Feige and film producer […]
Movie Review – Shaft (2019)
Shaft, 2019. Directed by Tim Story. Staring Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Richard Roundtree, Alexandra Shipp, Regina Hall, Matt Lauria, Avan Jogia, Lauren Vélez, Method Man, Almeera Jiwa, Ian Casselberry, Aaron Dominguez, and Isaach De Bankolé. SYNOPSIS: Detective John Shaft, estranged from his son, an FBI agent, joins him as he tries to solve […]
Movie Review – Triple Frontier (2019)
Triple Frontier, 2019. Directed by J.C. Chandor Starring Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Pedro Pascal, Garrett Hedlund, Adria Arjona, Sheila Vand and Reynaldo Gallegos. SYNOPSIS: A group of ex-soldiers team-up to take down a Latin drug lord and plan to take his money but numerous complications soon arise. Director J.C. Chandor and actor Oscar […]
Movie Review – The Drug King (2018)
The Drug King, 2018. Directed and written by Min-ho Woo. Starring Kang-ho Song, Jung-suk Jo, and Doona Bae. SYNOPSIS: A Korean drug smuggler is initiated into the drug trade and experiences a spectacular rise and fall set against the backdrop of Korea in 1970s. Set in 1970s Korea, Kang-ho Song plays real-life drug smuggler Lee […]
Second Opinion – Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
Velvet Buzzsaw, 2019. Written and directed by Dan Gilroy. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, Billy Magnussen and John Malkovich. SYNOPSIS: A previously unknown painter is discovered by greedy, shallow art entrepreneurs and takes revenge in a satire/horror thriller of the art world. Jake Gyllenhaal is […]
Movie Review – Serenity (2019)
Serenity, 2019. Directed by Steven Knight. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, and Djimon Hounsou. SYNOPSIS: A down-on-his-luck war veteran is offered a tempting offer to solve his money troubles by his ex-wife to kill her husband but not everything is at it appears in this slick mystery film. Serenity for the […]
Movie Review – The Pinch (2018)
The Pinch, 2018. Directed by Ashley Scott Meyers. Starring Gunner Wright, James Aston Lake, and Candice Bolek. SYNOPSIS: A courier of a California crime boss is caught and becomes embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with him. Director Ashley Scott Meyers’s The Pinch is an average crime drama with notable highlights and lows. A local […]
Movie Review – Perdida (2018)
Perdida, 2018. Directed by Alejandro Montiel. Starring Luisana Lopilato, Mara Alberto, Carlos Alcantára, Juan Ignacio Cane, Pedro Casablanc, and Nicolás Furtado. SYNOPSIS: A police officer, obsessed over an old case, decides to resume the search for a childhood friend who disappeared years ago. Perdida starts out with an ominous scene as befits its dark subject […]
