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MASTER GARDENER MOVIE REVIEW Joel Edgerton plays Narvel Roth, the titular gardener of this new Paul Schrader directed film. He tends to the palatial estate of wealthy widow Mrs. Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver). But his very structured life is upended when she orders him to take her great-niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell) on as an apprentice. Narvel […]

FOOL’S PARADISE MOVIE REVIEW Charlie Day, from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fame, has finally made his directorial debut with Fool’s Paradise. We follow the mute Latte Pronto, also played by Day, who finds himself a part of the Hollywood machine as a dead ringer for a blowhard actor in the next big picture. He’s […]

SUZUME MOVIE REVIEW Following up the international success of his 2019 films Weathering with You and the 2018 anime classic Your Name, writer/director Makoto Shinkai is bringing back the magic and beauty of Japan’s ancient culture with Suzume. The title is the name of an adventurous teenage girl brought up by her reserved and cautious […]

KIDS VS ALIENS MOVIE REVIEW With a title like this, you’d make assumptions. You’d assume there are kids in this movie. Correct. You’d guess there are aliens. Well, eventually. And by the look of it, you might assume an 80’s vibe. Yeah, that stylistic choice is certainly there, though it’s set in 2023. What you […]

RYE LANE MOVIE REVIEW Raine Allen-Miller’s directorial debut, Rye Lane, tells the story of Dom and Yas. Brought together by an emotional breakdown of Dom’s design, in a gender neutral, bathroom, Dom is having a terrible time getting over his ex, and Yas wants to let him know that it will be okay. Rom-coms tend […]

MAFIA MAMMA MOVIE REVIEW If someone offered me a viewing of a new film by a director who is a part of a billion dollar global phenomenon with Toni Collette as the lead, they’d be making an offer I couldn’t refuse! Mafia Mamma, directed by Catherine Hardwicke follows Kristin (Toni Collette), an empty nester with […]

MALUM MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Anthony DiBlasi has been making horror movies for a while now. One of them is called Last Shift, released in 2014. Well apparently he liked the idea so much, he essentially re-(made/booted) his own film. Which brings us to today’s film, Malum. It tells the story of a rookie cop’s first […]

CHAMPIONS MOVIE REVIEW Champions (a Bobby Farrelly joint) tells the story of Marcus (Woody Harrelson). After a tiff on the court and a drunk driving charge, Marcus is sentenced to 90 days coaching a local community center’s intellectually challenged basketball team. It’s a very formulaic situation for a sports/underdog movie, but that doesn’t take away […]

PALM TREES AND POWER LINES MOVIE REVIEW Although this film was a massive darling at Sundance, receiving glowing reviews and honors, it took several months for the film to find distribution. The reason, according to director Jamie Dack, is that no company wanted to touch a movie that tackles such a controversial subject. Seventeen-year-old Lea […]

A LITTLE WHITE LIE MOVIE REVIEW Toni Morrison once said the ability of the writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Michael Shannon plays a handyman living in New York city who’s mistaken for a very famous, private, and reclusive […]