THE IRON CLAW MOVIE REVIEW Are you ready to rumble? Well, you can get it on with A24’s new biopic about the doomed Von Erich family, The Iron Claw. Fritz (Holt McCallany) was a major wrestler in his day, but that time has passed and the mantle has been handed off to his multiple sons […]

AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM MOVIE REVIEW Jason Momoa takes one last turn as the King of Atlantis in this follow-up to 2018’s Aquaman. This time around, he and Mera (Amber Heard) have had a child and rearing them takes about as much out of Aquaman as does being the King of the undersea empire. […]

AMERICAN FICTION MOVIE REVIEW Jeffrey Wright plays author and teacher Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a man with a rather pretentious name and the attitude to back it up. Frustrated that he has trouble getting his books noticed by anyone other than critics or even published at all, he jokingly writes a ‘black’ book. That is to […]

LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND MOVIE REVIEW So no one told you the world was gonna end today CLAPPING! Netflix presents an adaptation of the day before the technological collapse dystopia Leave the World Behind, co-written by the author Rumaan Alam with Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot) who also directs. Amanda Sanford (Julia Roberts) has rented a […]

MAESTRO MOVIE REVIEW Bradley Cooper is back behind and in front of the lens with his 2nd feature film with Maestro. Maestro tells the story of conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein’s rise as one of the most prominent conductors in the world while it chronicles his lifelong relationship with actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. The film beautifully […]

LORD OF MISRULE MOVIE REVIEW William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside and The Boy) has a new film out called Lord of Misrule. The plot follows Rebecca Holland, Henry Holland, and their daughter Grace. They’re transplants in a small town where everything seems to be going fine… That is until Grace is abducted during a […]

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 […]