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MERCHANT IVORY (2023 – Documentary Feature)
STORYLINE: Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the company. (IMDb) When making a documentary about a subject you admire, I imagine it is difficult to remove your fandom, to create an unbiased motion picture. …
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SUPERMAN (2025)
STORYLINE: Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned. (IMDb) Superhero fatigue has set in at the cinemas, for me. Between the Marvel and…
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FAMILIAR TOUCH (2025)
STORYLINE: An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires. (IMDb) Familiar Touch is the latest film to take up the mantle about aging. It’s a touchy subject to tackle. Films such as Driving…
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ABRAHAM’S BOYS: A DRACULA STORY (2025)
STORYLINE: Abraham van Helsing moves his two sons to the United States in an attempt to escape their past. (IMDb) Movies inspired by vampires, Draculain particular, are all over the radar. It’s hard to top the 1931 Universal Monster Movie Dracula or the 1992 Gary Oldman Dracula adaption. Of course I have to…
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WHAT MAKES A MOVIES GOOD OR BAD?
What makes a movie a good or a bad one? That answer is different from person to person. I personally have two different answers to that question. I’m going to start with telling you my favorite movies. I often say it’s James Bond, and I do throughly love the 007 franchise.…
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JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH (2025)
STORYLINE: Five years post-Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough. (IMDb) I remember the summer of 1993, when all the rage was dinoeaurs roaring their out of extinction and on to the big screen. That younger, but still…
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PAVEMENTS (2025)
STORYLINE: A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, is an examination of the iconic 90s indie band Pavement. The film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic…
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MEFAN 2.0 (2025)
STORYLINE: Two years after M3GAN’s rampage, her creator, Gemma, resorts to resurrecting her infamous creation in order to take down Amelia, the military-grade weapon who was built by a defense contractor who stole M3GAN’s underlying tech. (IMDb) Its basic Hollywood mathematics, when a film is popular, it makes money, the idea of a…
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F1 – THE MOVIE (2025)
STORYLINE: A Formula One driver comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver. (IMDb) Do you remember that feeling when you hear Rocky called out triumphantly for Adrian? How about when Kevin Costner took us across the Field of Dreams? Did you stand up and cheer with Kristen Dunst? …
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BRIDE HARD (2025)
STORYLINE: When a mercenary group takes a lavish wedding hostage, they have no idea what they are in for as the maid of honor is actually a secret agent ready to rain hellfire upon anyone who would ruin her best friend’s wedding. (IMDb) Comedies are untended to make the viewer laugh. They come…