Tag: Movie Review
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Opposing the Reviews for “Horse Girl”
One of the great achievements of this film is its ability to challenge the mind and to force you to try to process information in a different way than you’re used to.
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‘A Quiet Place’ Review: One of the Best Modern Horror Movies
Jim Halpert directing a horror movie? I did not see this coming. A few days ago, news broke that A Quiet Place Part II has been pushed back yet again, leaving millions, including myself, devastated. Paramount postponed the film a third time, and now it will be released on September 17, 2021. To ease the pain, I decided to…
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‘Outside the Wire’ Review: Netflix’s Latest Mediocre Sci-Fi Flick
Netflix’s first original film of the year is the sci-fi thriller Outside the Wire. Before any comments, let’s set the scene: The year is 2036, and a destructive civil war has broken out in the middle of Eastern Europe. Not too much is revealed, only that US forces were deployed to Russia to act as peacekeepers.…
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East Side Sushi- Movie Review
So you know when Netflix is going to take down underrated films and they warn you? East Side Sushi will only be on Netflix until March 13 and if you haven’t seen it yet you should go watch it RIGHT NOW! East Side Sushi is the story of a Mexican mother/ very talented chef named…
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Women in Classic Horror: “The Fog”
Welcome to the first in what will be a series of reviews focusing on women and women-identified actors and characters in classic horror films. To kick things off we have a movie starring, not one, not two, but three legendary scream queens: The Fog (1980, Prime Video). Jamie Lee Curtis and John Carpenter are well-known…
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‘The World to Come’ Movie Review: A Stunning Period Romance
Mona Fastvold’s nineteenth century lesbian romance is emotionally charged, restrained, and poetic without feeling forced.
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Creepy Concept, Lackluster Story: A Movie Review of “Come Play”
“Come Play” was entertaining and had some great ideas about how to scare children away from playing with facial recognition settings.
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“The Boys in the Band” Movie Review
It’s Harold’s birthday, what could go wrong?! The Boys in the Band was initially performed on stage in 1968, made into a film in 1970, then returned to stage for a Broadway revival in 2018, only to be made into a film again with the same cast. The story has just as much “oomph” and…
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Rejecting “The Prom”-posal – Movie Review
Despite everything it was capable of, all of these poor choices strung together amount to nothing more than a counter-productive film.
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s Harriet!
Harriet is a tribute to an American legend, and the reverence for Harriet Tubman is obvious in this film. As many reviews have mentioned, this is not a slavery story, it is a freedom story. The viewers only see Harriet as a slave for the first few minutes of the film. To me, it felt…