Posts Tagged ‘Featured’
Film Review – The Wedding Banquet
On paper, The Wedding Banquet (2025) has all the makings of a classic screwball comedy. You have characters engaged in a silly plot that involves deception, hijinks, and plenty of awkward situations. Things get progressively more complicated, even if it could all be resolved if everyone were…
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Film Review – Freaky Tales
Freaky Tales (2024) is the kind of movie that works almost entirely on vibes. The writing/directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have crafted an anthology of four loosely connected stories, all taking place in Oakland, CA in 1987. Each segment has its own brand of off the wall…
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Film Review – The Assessment
There are several themes running throughout The Assessment (2024). Sci-fi is at its best when it uses fantastical elements as a representation of real-world issues. In that sense, it should be commended. Director Fleur Fortune (in her feature length debut) crafts a stylish, feverish, and bizarre dystopian world. In…
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Film Review – The Electric State
Anthony and Joe Russo’s directorial output post Avengers: Endgame (2019) have been, well, uneven to say the least. Sadly, that trend continues with The Electric State (2025). This is a big sci-fi adventure loaded with special effects, well-known stars, and plenty of splashy set pieces. And yet, it lacks thrills, excitement,…
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Film Review – Opus
Opus is a word with a more significant meaning—one that reverberates with the film’s characters and somewhat cockily could describe the film itself to its writer and director, Mark Anthony Green, who also refers to himself as MAG. With his background in interviewing important people…
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Film Review – The Monkey
Some movies are just made to be viewed by large audiences. Responding to every joke, scare, thrill, or laugh simultaneously in a room full of strangers is one of life’s pure joys. In that regard, The Monkey (2025) should be viewed in the biggest theater with the…
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Film Review – Captain America: Brave New World
***Warning: This Review Contains Mild Spoilers*** Here now is an example of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s worst tendencies. Captain America: Brave New World (2025) is a film so blatantly dependent on previous entries that it lacks its own identity. Granted, the very essence of “The…
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Film Review – You’re Cordially Invited
You’re Cordially Invited (2025) is the kind of rom com that would’ve seen a big theatrical release twenty years ago. Two big stars, a screwball plot, and just the right amount of earnestness was once the key ingredients for drawing an audience. Sadly, in recent years…
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