Red Stewart reviews the eighth episode of Black Lightning… “The Book of Revelations” opens up with scenes of Anissa and Jefferson training juxtaposed against news interviews with everyday people criticizing Black Lightning in the aftermath of Lady Eve’s murder. This is clearly meant to be a contrasting throwback to the third episode “LaWanda: The Book […]
Movie Review – The Square (2017)
The Square, 2017. Directed by Ruben Ostlund. Starring Claes Bang, Elizabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary, and Christopher Laesso. SYNOPSIS: A museum curator is preparing to launch a major art exhibition. He sees himself as having a social conscience, but when his wallet and phone are stolen, the other side of his character emerges and […]
Movie Review – March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step (2018)
March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step, 2018. Directed by Luc Jacquet. Narrated by Morgan Freeman. SYNOPSIS: Two penguins, a father and son, face and overcome the almost unimaginable challenges of life in the hostile land of Antarctica. It’s been over a decade since the release of Luc Jacquet’s March of the Penguins, a groundbreaking look […]
Jessica Jones Season 2 Episode 10 – ‘AKA Pork Chop’
Matt Rodgers reviews the tenth episode of Jessica Jones season 2… It’s time to reposition some relationships with ‘AKA Pork Chop’, as Jessica orders the priorities of those circling her maelstrom of life; Trish, Jeri, Alisa, Oscar and Malcolm all take their turn being realigned. We’re into the home stretch now, with the individual threads […]
Movie Review – Sweet Country (2017)
Sweet Country, 2017. Directed by Warwick Thornton. Starring Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Hamilton Morris, Matt Day, Tremayne Doolan, Trevon Doolan, and Ewen Leslie. SYNOPSIS: Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defence and goes […]
SXSW Movie Review – Hereditary (2018)
Hereditary, 2018. Directed by Ari Aster. Starring Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Ann Dowd, Milly Shapiro, and Alex Wolff. SYNOPSIS: When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun […]
Movie Review – Flower (2018)
Flower, 2018. Directed by Max Winkler. Starring Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Adam Scott, Dylan Gelula, Tim Heidecker, Eric Edelstein, Maya Eshet, Joey Morgan. SYNOPSIS: A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother. Max Winkler’s Flower is unorthodox sibling kinship from a painfully quirky perspective. Breakdowns are festively crass, attitudes unstable […]
Second Opinion – Tomb Raider (2018)
Tomb Raider, 2018. Directed by Roar Uthaug. Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hannah John-Kamen, and Nick Frost. SYNOPSIS: Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. Movies […]
Movie Review – Mary Magdalene (2018)
Mary Magdalene, 2018. Directed by Garth Davis. Starring Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chewitel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim, and Denis Menochet. SYNOPSIS: One of most controversial and misunderstood pariahs is given a cultural realignment in this gritty portrayal of Mary Magdalene (Rooney Mara). Chronicling her life B.C. and the subsequent path taken when she decides to follow […]
Movie Review – Big Fish & Begonia (2016)
Big Fish & Begonia, 2016. Directed by Xuan Liang and Chun Zhang Featuring the voice talents of Guanlin Ji, Shangqing Su, Timmy Xu, Shulan Pan, Yuanyuan Zhang, Jiu’er, Lifang Xue, and Jie Zhang. SYNOPSIS: Big Fish & Begonia unfolds in a world underneath the sea inhabited by spirits who control the time, tides, and seasons […]
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