Film Reviews & Insights
A Quiet Place: Day One
John Krasinski's A Quiet Place franchise has been one of the major breakout stories in the horror genre from the past decade. While Parts 1 and 2 came with varying [...]
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
The Western is a genre almost as old as film itself. From the Golden Age of Ford, Mann, Daves, Boetticher, and others to the darker 1960s and 70s under Leone, [...]
A Family Affair
A Family Affair, directed by Richard LaGravenese, is a comedy with smiles and chuckles rather than laughs, but far more groans and cringes of embarrassment than any other response. Despite [...]
The Bikeriders
Director Jeff Nichols has not released a film in eight years. His previous film Loving, was a portrayal of Richard and Mildred Loving, whose marriage led to the historical Supreme [...]
Inside Out 2
Inside Out 2, the sequel to the brilliant 2015 feature, Inside Out, is everything a sequel should be and more. It takes the characters and situations in new directions, growing [...]
Tuesday
Daina O. Pusić sophomore feature Tuesday attempts to be a fantasy drama about death, and in that regard, it holds some endearing and equally bizarre moments, but mostly it's a [...]
Banel and Adama
Banel and Adama is a finely shot film of wonderful vistas and dreamlike images, concerning a young couple from Senegal. The man, Adama, is destined to be the chief of the [...]
Jim Henson Idea Man
Jim Henson Idea Man, is a sparkling new documentary, courtesy of director Ron Howard, who has done many feature films, but is building a reputation as a fine documentarian. His [...]
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
The third entry in the Bad Boys franchise, Bad Boys For Life, the last major blockbuster released before the Pandemic shut the world down, felt like a breath of fresh [...]
Young Woman and the Sea
Familiar but engaging, Joachim Rønning's biographical sports drama, about the taxing journey of swimmer Trudy Ederle and how she was the first swimmer to swim across the English Channel, certainly [...]
The Commandant’s Shadow
Many thoughts occurred to this reviewer while watching The Commandant’s Shadow, not the least of which was why has there not been a bigger push to market this film? This is [...]