Tag: movies
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AVATAR: FIRE & ASH (2025)
STORYLINE: Jake and Neytiri’s family grapples with grief after Neteyam’s death, encountering a new, aggressive Na’vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges. (IMDb) A fantastic sequel should be able to stand on its own two legs from…
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Retro Rewind ~ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (2000)
STORYLINE: Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville, wherein live the Whos, an almost-mutated sort of Munchkin-like people who all love Christmas. Just outside of their beloved town lives the Grinch (Jim Carrey), a nasty creature that hates Christmas and plans to steal it from the Whos, which he equally abhors. Little Cindy…
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DUST BUNNY (2025, Independent Horror)
STORYLINE: An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbor for help in killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family.(IMDb) There are many sub genres to horror. Slasher films, haunted houses movies, and zombie flicks to name a few. Like all genres horror films has had independent features made within its…
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PETER HUJAR’S DAY (2025)
STORYLINE: Conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds light on New York’s vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist’s life. (IMDb) New York has been well documented during the course of cinematic history. Woody Allen has done so multiple times, with films such as Manhattan (1979). …
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Retro Rewind: SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS TGE MARTIANS (1964)
STORYLINE: Worried that their children have become obsessed with television shows from Earth which extol the virtues of Santa Claus, Martians begin an expedition to Earth to kidnap the one and only Santa Claus. While on Earth, they kidnap two lively children that lead the group of Martians to the North Pole and Santa Claus.…
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Retro Rewind ~ MIRACLE ON 34th ST (1947)!
STORYLINE: At the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the actor playing Santa Claus is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades him to take his place. He proves to be a sensation and is quickly recruited to play Santa at the main store. While he…
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FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 (2025)
STORYLINE: One year has passed since the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. The stories about what transpired there have been twisted into a campy local legend, inspiring the town’s first ever Fazfest. Former security guard Mike (Josh Hutcherson) and police officer Vanessa (Elizabeth Lail) have kept the truth from Mike’s 11-year-old sister, Abby (Piper…
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Retro Rewind ~ HOME ALONE (1990)
🏠 STORYLINE: It is Christmas time and the McCallister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But the youngest in the family, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin), got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz (Devin Ratray) and was sent to his room, which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the…
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KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR
STORYLINE: A young woman is shot and left for dead at her wedding. Her entire wedding party is massacred in cold blood. After four years in a coma she awakes and systematically sets out to wreak revenge on the people responsible, especially their leader, Bill. (IMDb) ‘Revenge is a dish best served cold’- Klingon proverb.…
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Retro Rewind CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
STORYLINE: Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country’s most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can’t even boil an egg. The…