If you’ve ever been a part of a team in some capacity, but are now no longer close with many of those individuals, you’ll probably understand the spirit of Bao Tran’s feature debut The Paper Tigers. You’ve probably had those dinners, anniversary get togethers, reunions, where the drinks flow and so do the laughs. Just […]
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Odd Man Rush surprised me. I wasn’t keen on settling in for yet another riff on the sports movie. What the film delivers, despite some heavy handed messaging, far outweighed any misgivings I had going on. Odd Man Rush reminds us to find the balance between chasing your dreams. And realizing and recognizing what you […]
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Ten years is a long time for a lot to happen or for nothing to happen at all. That’s what Gustavo Sanchez’ I Hate New York feels like as it captures the lives of three trans women and people under the queer umbrella. All of them, by the way, worked as either hosts or musicians […]
Read MoreWe’re less than ten minutes into Benjamin Ross Hayden’s Parallel Minds. And it shows us its protagonist Margo (Tommie-Amber Pirie) having a nightmare. Audiences know from watching enough of these sci-fi thrillers that a bad dream leads to something worse. That worse thing is her boss Elise (Michelle Thrush) becoming a murder victim. A scientist […]
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Everybody knows about The New Mutants and its delayed release dates. It stayed in Fox / Disney’s shelf only for it to become one of the first films to play in theaters since the pandemic shut the industry down. It, along with Disney and the industry, got backlash because of this release, but let’s be […]
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Never being much a wrestling fan myself, I guess it’s understandable that I had totally forgotten about David Arquette’s brief foray into the WCW back at the turn of the millennium. Even so, for an actor that was such a visible part of my movie-watching adolescence, I was a little shocked of my ignorance towards […]
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The glamour of war; is being able to get out alive… All ready a massive hit overseas in China, The Eight Hundred is a top shelf war movie that allows us to get lost in the emotions of the moments rather than on any individual character which allows the collective bravery, terror and human endurance […]
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Sometimes you go out on the perfect note… Bill & Ted Face The Music actually manages to achieve a certain level of genius to it. It captures the absolute goofball energy of the original films WITHOUT losing any of the earnest emotions in these characters. It’s the antithesis of the Hollywood cash grab and EXACTLY […]
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Sundance Now is another streaming service that’s been around for the past year. However, since it’s available to me this year I might as well go check it out. I’m also doing this at a time when staying home is more of a privilege than a necessity. But if you have that privilege, please practice […]
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Those moments of divine inspiration, aren’t always easy to come by… Based on a true story, Fatima is the kind of faith based movie that we’ve seen before with one exception. It isn’t trying to be “preachy” and it stays true the power of the moment and the event that this story chronicles… In 1917, […]
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