Movie Review: Disney MULAN Starring Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Li Gong
MULAN is the latest live-action remake from Disney, available on Disney Plus today for $29.99 as a part of their new “Premium Access” offerings. Directed by Niki Caro (WHALE RIDER), the film is adapted from the 1998 animated musical and the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan – the female warrior who takes her father’s place […]
Movie Review: TENET Starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki
The wait is finally over, and Christopher Nolan’s TENET – the most discussed and anticipated film of 2020 – has officially been released in theaters. In case you are reading this from the future, times are strange for cinema. We’re in the middle of a global pandemic, and most theaters have been closed since early […]
Movie Review: THE NEW MUTANTS
After several years, a plethora of re-shoots, and multiple release dates, this weekend finally sees the final installment in the X-Men franchise from 20th Century Fox with the release of Josh Boone’s The New Mutants. Rumors and whispers have circled the film for quite some time, but after some final polishing, the last X-Men film […]
Movie Review: PHINEAS AND FERB THE MOVIE: CANDACE AGAINST THE UNIVERSE
In the Summer of 2015 we said goodbye to one of the greatest animated shows ever created. Disney’s Phineas and Ferb went well beyond the title song’s “104 days of summer vacation,” giving us four seasons packed with fun – including Marvel and Star Wars crossovers, a fantastic film, and even a spin-off about the […]
Movie Review: BILL AND TED FACE THE MUSIC Starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter
They’ve gone on an Excellent Adventure. They’ve had a Bogus Journey. Now it’s finally time for Bill and Ted to Face the Music. Nearly three decades have passed since we’ve last seen our heroes. The beloved duo of Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) have grown up – but at heart they’re the same […]
Movie Review: GET DUKED! Starring Rian Gordon, Lewis Gribben
One of the top comedies of 2020 is hitting Amazon on August 28. ‘Get Duked!’ or ‘Boyz in the Wood,’ as it was called when it won an audience award at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival is a sure-fire bet to be a future cult-classic. In what seems like an innocent camping trip for four […]
Retro Movie Review: OVER THE TOP Starring Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia
Sly Stallone made some great movies in the 80’s. From Rocky to Rambo, he was a box office machine, but along the way he also had some films that didn’t do quite as well as the Rocky films, and no, I’m not talking about ‘Stop or My Mom Will Shoot!.’ ‘Over the Top’ hit theaters […]
Movie Review: UNHINGED Starring Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Jimmi Simpson
Make no mistake about it, Russell Crowe’s latest film is a horror movie. In UNHINGED, Crowe plays a violent sociopath who thinks the world has it out for him, and decides that he wants others to understand his pain. His unsuspecting victim comes in the form of Rachel (Caren Pistorius), a struggling mother going through […]
Movie Review: WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS Starring Charlie Plummer, Taylor Russell, Walton Goggins
High school is tough enough as it is, not to mention the individual struggles that each student faces in their personal lives. For Adam, that means being diagnosed with schizophrenia during his senior year. Out today in theaters across the country, WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS deals with the extremely important topic of these invisible illnesses, […]
Movie Review: PROJECT POWER Starring Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback
Project Power, directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, dropped this weekend on Netflix. The premise seems to be a new take that pulls on a familiar thread. A drug, called Power, is being distributed throughout New Orleans, giving users a five-minute high where they will develop a special ability – such as super strength, […]