SILENT NIGHT MOVIE REVIEW It’s hard to believe but it’s been 20 years since Hong Kong action maestro John Woo directed a Hollywood film. While Woo retains his taste for melodrama, his latest bullet ballet trades in his usual operatic flair for a grittier, more grounded approach to violence. Shot in Mexico City on a […]

GODZILLA MINUS ONE MOVIE REVIEW Godzilla has been known to overshadow his co-stars (figuratively and literally) but Godzilla Minus One deliberately centers its story around its human characters. During the final months of WW2, a kamikaze pilot named Koichi (Ryunosuke Kamiki), abandons his suicide mission by flying back to base for bogus repairs. No sooner […]

MAY DECEMBER MOVIE REVIEW Director Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine) has finally taken the plunge into streaming services, with the silver screen replaced by the black mirror as Netflix presents May December. Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) is a famous procedural actor on a long running CSI-like show who’s just been cast in a scandalous […]

LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY SERIES REVIEW In the 1950’s there was a post-war boom full of North Korean war vets, denim jeans, form fitting skirts, and the upcoming civil rights movements that would echo into our current age. Elizabeth Zot (Brie Larson) is a single mother and celebrity chef on a famous television show “Supper at […]

POOR THINGS MOVIE REVIEW Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos brings with him a certain level of prestige, as among his many awards he has Best Director/Picture for the 2018 The Favourite. But he also brings something else…some seriously weird stories. His latest, Poor Things, returns more to the form of his earlier work in that sense, […]

THE BOY AND THE HERON MOVIE REVIEW In what seems likely to be master animator and storyteller Hayao Miyazaki’s final film (the man is 82), The Boy and the Heron returns to dark and surreal fantasy and I suspect long-time fans will be beside themselves happy about it. The story follows Mahito, a 12 year […]

SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF SERIES REVIEW What’s up subspace travelers? If you don’t know who Scott Pilgrim is, stop reading this, pick up the comics and watch Edgar Wright’s movie… Are you finished? Did you get all the plot points? Great, now forget everything you just learned because Scott Pilgrim Takes Off has nothing to […]

WHAT HAPPENS LATER MOVIE REVIEW According to Love Actually and a rant from Ben Affleck in a scene from Dogma, there is no more romantic place on earth than an airport. Directed and co-written by actress Meg Ryan, What Happens Later ponders the famous beach boys lyrics from “God Only Knows What I’d Be Without […]

THE CONTINENTAL: FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK John Wick 4 came out this year and just crushed it! It was an epic bullet ballet, worthy of being among the very best of action movies, and further cementing Keanu Reeves as one of the GOATs. So, with that movie doing what it did so damn […]

BLUE EYE SAMURAI SERIES REVIEW Welcome to Edo-era Japan where isolationism is key to survival. Anyone who is an outsider is ostracized maybe sometimes murdered. The Japanese don’t want to fuck with white folk (for good reasons). But you know what white colonizers are like… A pillage here, a bunch of rapes over there… The […]