Red Sparrow, 2018. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Bill Camp, Joely Richardson, Kristof Konrad, Douglas Hodge, Sergei Polunin, Sakina Jaffrey, Nicole O’Neill, David Z. Miller, Makar Zaporozhskiy, Sasha Frolova, Joel de la Fuente, Thekla Reuten, Sergej Onopko, and Jeremy Irons SYNOPSIS: Ballerina Dominika […]
Movie Review – Lady Bird (2017)
Lady Bird, 2017. Written and Directed by Greta Gerwig. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Odeya Rush, Kathryn Newton, Andy Buckley, Daniel Zovatto, Jordan Rodrigues, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith. SYNOPSIS: In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California. There’s a dirtied, […]
Second Opinion – Black Panther (2018)
Black Panther, 2018. Directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K. Brown, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, and Andy Serkis. SYNOPSIS: T’Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the […]
Movie Review – Like Me (2017)
Like Me, 2017. Directed by Robert Mockler. Starring Addison Timlin, Ian Nelson, Larry Fessenden, Jeremy Gardener, and Nicolette Pierini. SYNOPSIS: A loner embarks upon a crime spree that she broadcasts on social media for the world to watch. Ah, social media, that great big boogeyman who we long to escape but constantly find ourselves running […]
Movie Review – Tehran Taboo (2017)
Tehran Taboo, 2017. Written and Directed by Ali Soozandah. Featuring the voice talents of Elmira Rafizadeh, Bilal Yasar, Arash Marandi, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, Alireza Bayram, Sasan Behroozian, Farhad Abadinejad, Siir Eloglu, Hasan Ali Mete, Roxana Rahnama, Morteza Tavakoli, and Thomas Nash. SYNOPSIS: In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, […]
Blu-ray Review – Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, 2018. Directed by Sam Liu. Featuring the voice talents of Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Carpenter, Anthony Head, Scott Peterson, John DiMaggio, Grey DeLisle, and Yuri Lowenthal. SYNOPSIS: Based on the graphic novel by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight envisions Batman in the Victorian Age as he chases down famed serial killer […]
Movie Review – Black Panther (2018)
Black Panther, 2018. Directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K. Brown, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, and Andy Serkis. SYNOPSIS: T’Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, […]
Movie Review – Detective Chinatown 2 (2018)
Detective Chinatown 2, 2018. Written and Directed by Chen Sicheng. Starring Wang Baoqiang, Liu Haoran, Xiao Yang, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Michael Pitt, and Tsumabuki Satoshi. SYNOPSIS: When the case of New York Chinatown godfather Uncle Qi’s missing son turns into a murder investigation, the detective duo Tang and Qin team up again to hunt down […]
Movie Review – Have a Nice Day (2017)
Have a Nice Day, 2017. Written and Directed by Liu Jian. Featuring the voice talents of Changlong Zhu, Siming Yang, Kai Cao, and Xiaofeng Ma. SYNOPSIS: A city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draws several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict. Money makes the […]
Movie Review – I, Tonya (2017)
I, Tonya, 2017. Directed by Craig Gillespie. Starring Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, Sebastian Stan, Paul Walter Hauser, Caitlin Carver, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson. SYNOPSIS: The true story of Tonya Harding, who was the world’s best female figure skater despite a deprived background. She found her career derailed after she was implicated in a brutal […]
