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 world go around, especially […]
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 assault on one […]
Movie Review – Face 2 Face (2016)
Face 2 Face, 2016.Directed by Matthew Toronto. Starring Daniela Bobadilla and Daniel Amerman.SYNOPSIS:Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.In sophomore year of high school, I took a course called […]
DVD Review – Brakes (2016)
Brakes, 2016Directed by Mercedes Grower Starring Julia Davis, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Kerry Fox, Steve Oram, Paul McGann, Kate HardieSYNOPSIS:A two-part semi-improvised film examining couples as they break-up and meet in and around London.Relationship break-ups can be messy. And so too can film-making, particularly if an improvisational freedom is allowed too much of a sway […]
DVD Review – A Caribbean Dream (2017)
A Caribbean Dream, 2017.Directed by Shakirah Bourne. Starring Adrian Green, Susannah Harker, Sam Gillett, Jherad Alleyne, Marina Bye, Patrick Michael Foster, and Aden Gillett.SYNOPSIS:A reworking of the Shakespeare fairy tale “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, set in a modern day Barbados.A Caribbean Dream offers a fresh approach to telling the Shakespeare comedic fairy tale A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The film creates a […]
Movie Review – Golden Exits (2018)
Golden Exits, 2018.Written and Directed by Alex Ross Perry. Starring Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Chloe Sevigny, Mary-Louise Parker, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Rabe, Craig Butta, Keith Poulson, and Analeigh Tipton.SYNOPSIS:An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance […]
Second Opinion – Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
Fifty Shades Freed, 2018.Directed by James Foley. Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Rita Ora, Luke Grimes, Victor Rasuk, Max Martini, Callum Keith Rennie, Bruce Altman, Arielle Kebbel, Robinne Lee, Brant Daughterty, and Marcia Gay Harden.SYNOPSIS:Anastasia and Christian get married, but Jack Hyde continues to threaten their relationship.Believe it or not, I […]
Movie Review – The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)
The Ballad of Lefty Brown, 2017.Written and Directed by Jared Moshe. Starring Bill Pullman, Diego Josef, Tommy Flanagan, Jim Caviezel, Kathy Baker, Adam O’Byrne, Joe Anderson, Michael Spears, and Peter Fonda.SYNOPSIS:A coming-of-age Western for a 65-year-old man.A24 continues to be full of surprises, as there isn’t any other well-known distributor that would scoop up a […]
Movie Review – The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
The 15:17 to Paris, 2018.Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, Jenna Fischer, Judy Greer, Bryce Ghelsar, Cole Eichenberger, William Jennings, Mark Moogalian, Isabelle Risacher Moogalian, P.J. Byrne, Jaleel White, Tony Hale, Ray Corasani, Paul-Mikel Williams, and Thomas Lennon.SYNOPSIS:Three Americans discover a terrorist plot aboard a train while in France.Depending on […]
Movie Review – The Scent of Rain and Lightning (2017)
The Scent of Rain and Lightning, 2017.Directed by Blake Robbins. Starring Maika Monroe, Maggie Grace, Bonnie Bedelia, Mark Webber, and Justin Chatwin.SYNOPSIS:When news reaches Jody Linder (Maika Monroe) that her parents’ killer is being released it causes a domino effect. Long buried secrets and family feuds are uncovered, proving fouler things than dead bodies lurk […]
