Movie Review: THE CROODS: A NEW AGE Starring Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds
The Croods are back in an all new feature hitting theaters just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. In A New Age – directed by Joel Crawford – Grug (Nicolas Cage), Eep (Emma Stone), Guy (Ryan Reynolds), Ugga (Catherine Keener), Gran (Cloris Leachman), and Thunk (Clark Duke) are introduced to a new way of life […]
Movie Review: HILLBILLY ELEGY Starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso
Based on the 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance, craftsman Ron Howard has delivered a Lifetime adaptation disguised as Oscar-bait. Assembling an all-star cast, the film follows J.D. (Gabriel Basso) as he recounts his childhood growing up in the south with his drug-addicted mother Bev […]
Movie Review: FREAKY Starring Kathryn Newton, Vince Vaughn, Alan Ruck
You’ve seen body-swap movies before, but never quite like this… Today, on Friday the 13th, Blumhouse is releasing their latest horror-comedy from director Christopher Landon (Death Day). Freaky follows in the footsteps of other body-swap comedies like Freaky Friday, 18 Again!, 13 Going on 30, etc. Except this one the formula on its head, when […]
Movie Review: THE CRAFT: LEGACY Starring Cailee Spaeny, Zoey Luna, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone
The highly anticipated reboot/sequel hybrid from Blumhouse Pictures, The Craft: Legacy (a follow-up to the 1996 cult classic The Craft) is available for rent or purchase through video-on-demand services everywhere. Premiering just a few days before Halloween, the film couldn’t have better timing with its release. With an audience for horror features – especially during […]
Movie Review: OVER THE MOON Starring Cathy Ang, Phillipa Soo, John Cho
Streaming now on Netflix, Over the Moon is the heartfelt tale of a young girl who experiences loss and sets out on a journey to overcome it through her beliefs in family and love. Fei Fei (Cathy Ang) is told the story of the Moon Goddess Chang’e (Phillipa Soo), who lost the love of her […]
Movie Review: BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM Out Now On Amazon Prime Video
Kazakhstan’s most infamous journalist is back at it, doing what he does best after 14 years away from the big screen (big stream?). The new film directed by Jason Woliner, succinctly titled Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, dropped early on Prime Video […]
Movie Review: REBECCA Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristen Scott Thomas
Based on the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier, the new adaptation of REBECCA directed by Ben Wheatley hits Netflix today. Lily James plays the narrator of the film, who meets Max de Winter (Armie Hammer) while she is working as the companion to socialite Mrs. Van Hopper (Ann Dowd). The two partake in a […]
Movie Review: THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 Starring Eddie Redmayne, Sasha Baron Cohen, Mark Rylance
“The whole world is watching.” Written and directed by Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is based on the true events surrounding protestors at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL. Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne), Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen), Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong), David Dellinger (John Carroll Lynch), Rennie Davis […]
Movie Review: EVIL EYE Starring Sarita Choudhury, Sunita Mani, Bernard White
As part of the back half of the release of four films that make up the Amazon Prime film series Welcome to the Blumhouse, Evil Eye, directed by Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani, accompanied by Nocturne, premiers Tuesday, October 13. My personal favorite entry in the series, the film stars Sarita Choudhury, Sunita Mani, Bernard […]
Movie Review: NOCTURNE Starring Sydney Sweeney, Jacques Colimon, Ji Eun Hwang
Nocturne, directed by Zu Quirke, is one of the final two films set to premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime as part of their Welcome to the Blumhouse collection. Streaming on October 13th, just a week after the first set of films (The Lie and Black Box), this entry proves to be quite a different kind […]