Nomadland, 2020.Directed by Chloe Zhao. Starring Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Charlene Swankie, and Bob Wells.A frontrunner at the upcoming Academy Awards, Nomadland has critics buzzing. But our host EJ Moreno doesn’t connect with the film and why dives into all the reasons why. With its mixed messages concerning capitalism and the damage it […]
Movie Review – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, 2020.Directed by George C. Wolfe. Starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, Jeremy Shamos, Taylour Paige, Jonny Coyne, Michael Potts, and Dusan Brown.SYNOPSIS:Chicago, 1927. A recording session. Tensions rise between Ma Rainey (Viola Davis), her ambitious horn player (Chadwick Boseman) and the white management determined to control the uncontrollable […]
Disney+ Review – Mulan (2020)
Mulan, 2020.Directed by Niki Caro. Starring Liu Yifei, Yoson An, Tzi Ma, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Jason Scot Lee, Gong Li, Rosalind Chao and Xana Tang.SYNOPSIS:A young woman pretends to be a man in order to take her ageing father’s place as a conscript in the Chinese Imperial Army.The recent wave of Disney’s live-action remakes […]
Movie Review – Mank (2020)
Mank, 2020.Directed by David Fincher. Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Charles Dance, Lily Collins, Tuppence Middleton, and Tom Burke.SYNOPSIS:1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish “Citizen Kane.”In attempting to reconcile alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s quest to pen Orson Welles’ Citizen […]
TV Review – Raised By Wolves
Martin Carr reviews Raised By Wolves…Several serious questions are raised in this science fiction series created by Aaron Gozikowski and overseen by Ridley Scott. Featuring colonising androids, desolate scrubland and fossilised dinosaur remains Raised By Wolves is an intriguing hybrid. Opening innocently with a spandex wearing pairing landing on an unpopulated rock known as Kepler […]
Movie Review – All My Life (2020)
All My Life, 2020.Directed by Marc Meyers. Starring Jessica Rothe, Harry Shum Jr., Michael Masini, Chrissie Fit, Greg Vrotsos, Ever Carradine, Marielle Scott, Jay Pharoah, Kyle Allen, Keala Settle, Josh Brener, and Jon Rudnitsky.SYNOPSIS:A couple’s wedding plans are thrown off course when the groom is diagnosed with liver cancer.Any time a modern-day mainstream romance bringing […]
Movie Review – Host (2020)
Host, 2020.Directed by Rob Savage. Starring Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, and Radina Drandova.SYNOPSIS:Six friends get together during lockdown for their weekly zoom call. Their normal group chat turns dark when a seance goes wrong.For anyone experiencing life in the last few months, we all know Zoom calls can feel like a horror […]
Movie Review – Sinister (2012)
Sinister, 2012.Directed by Scott Derrickson. Starring Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone, Fred Thompson, Clare Foley and Michael Hall D’Addario.SYNOPSIS: Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.It’s been quite some […]
Movie Review – RED 2 (2013)
RED 2, 2013.Directed by Dean Parisot. Starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lee Byung-hun, and Anthony Hopkins.SYNOPSIS:Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.Bruce Willis has been making British headlines in recent weeks, though […]
Movie Review – 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
10 Cloverfield Lane, 2016.Directed by Dan Trachtenberg. Starring John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr.SYNOPSIS:A woman awakes in an underground bunker after being knocked unconscious in a car accident. Two men are with her, claiming the world up above has been devastated by a chemical attack.Back in 2007, a mysterious trailer appeared before […]
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