Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11, 2021.Directed by David Belton and Bjørn Johnson. Featuring Donald Byrd, Daisy Khan, Rik Parker.SYNOPSIS:A feature documentary collecting accounts of 9/11 submitted via a video booth in the months after the attack. The same witnesses are revisited 20 years later.How we cope with traumatic memories is the focus of this emotionally […]
Movie Review – Zola (2021)
Zola, 2021.Directed by Janicza Bravo. Starring Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Colman Domingo, Nicholas Braun, Ari’el Stachel, Ts Madison, and Jason Mitchell.SYNOPSIS:Zola, a Detroit waitress, strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani, who seduces her to join a weekend of dancing and partying in Florida. What at first seems like a glamorous trip full […]
Movie Review – Wendy (2020)
Wendy, 2020.Directed by Benh Zeitlin. Starring Devin France, Yashua Mack, Gage Naquin, Gavin Naquin, Ahmad Cage, Krzysztof Meyn, Shay Walker, Tommie Lynn Milazzo, and Stephanie Lynn Wilson.SYNOPSIS:Lost on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued, Wendy must fight to save her family, her freedom, and the joyous spirit of youth from the […]
Movie Review – The Song of Sway Lake (2017)
The Song of Sway Lake, 2017.Director: Ari Gold. Starring: Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan, Isabelle McNally, Mary Beth Peil, and Elizabeth Peña.SYNOPSIS :A young jazz obsessive enlists his only friend, a Russian drifter, to help steal a rare vinyl record from his family’s holiday lake house.The Song of Sway Lake is certainly a curious film. Ambitious in […]
Movie Review – Train to Busan (2016)
Train to Busan, 2016.Directed by Sang-ho Yeon Starring Yoo Gong, Soo-an Kim, Ma Dong-seok, Yu-mi Jeong, Woo-sik Choi, Sohee, Eui-sung KimSYNOPSIS:In a viral outbreak afflicted South Korea, a group of passengers attempt to stay alive on the train from Seoul to Busan…Long distance train journeys are pretty frustrating at the best of times. Crap wi-fi coverage, uncomfortable […]
Movie Review – The Wailing (2016)
The Wailing, 2016.Directed and written by Hong-jin Na Starring Do Wan Kwak, Kim Hwan-hee, Jung-min Hwang, Jun Kunimura, Woo-hee Chun.SYNOPSIS :A stranger arrives at a rural village in Korea and immediately unsettling events begin to take place. A policeman is drawn in to the mystery and must confront all sorts of demons in order to save […]
Comic Book Review – Atomic Robo and the Ring of Fire #1
Robert W Monk review Atomic Robo and the Ring of Fire #1…Atomic Robo disappeared two years ago when Tesladyne was invaded by Majestic 12 and transformed into ULTRA, a task force leveraging the U.S. surveillance and military industries against scientific pursuits deemed to be hazardous. Now, the few remaining Action Scientists finally have a plan […]
DVD Review – Experimenter (2015)
Experimenter, 2015.Written and directed by Michael Almereyda. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Anthony Edwards, John Palladino, Jim Gaffigan, Harley Ware, John Leguizamo and Anton Yelchin.SYNOPSIS:In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority.Michael Almereyda’s biopic about Stanley Milgram’s controversial psychological experiments is […]
DVD Review – My Nazi Legacy (2015)
My Nazi Legacy, 2015.Directed by David Evans. Featuring Philippe Sands, Horst von Wachter and Niklas Frank.SYNOPSIS:A human-rights lawyer conducts conversations with two men whose fathers were indicted as war criminals for their roles in WWII as Nazi Governors and consultants to Adolf Hitler himself. This captivating documentary film traces the personal histories of two men whose […]
Blu-ray Review – The Killing (1956)
The Killing, 1956.Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C.Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr, Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia and Timothy Carey.SYNOPSIS:Seven men are intent on executing the perfect robbery and taking a racetrack for two million dollars. But nothing goes quite as planned…Kubrick’s third feature was something of a make […]
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