Movie Reviews(Page 9)

In Search of Tomorrow is a crowd-funded documentary that takes an in-depth look at the sci-fi movies of the eighties.  (I backed this project on Indiegogo back in 2021.) From the huge blockbusters to the low-budget camp-fests, this lengthy film takes a deep dive into the many wonderf

In the prologue of the Disney animated film Strange World, brave adventurer Jaeger Clade and his 15-year-old son Searcher are attempting to cross the seemingly uncrossable mountains that surround their home of Avalonia.  Searcher discovers an amazing plant that seems to generate elec

Not long after watching and enjoying See How They Run, I moved on to another period-piece murder mystery film with a sprawling all-star cast that was released towards the end of 2022: David O. Russell’s Amsterdam. Christian Bale and John David Washington star in the film as Burt

Sidney is a documentary on Apple TV about the great Sidney Poitier.  It’s directed by Reginald Hudlin (who has directed many films including House Party and Boomerang, and who also is a talented comic book writer) and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey. The film traces Mr. Poi

Set in London in 1953, See How They Run tells the story of a murder that rocks the production of the Agatha Christie murder mystery play The Mousetrap.  Grizzled Scotland Yard Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and the young, eager Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) are tasked with in

In the Pixar film Lightyear, Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear and his partner Alisha Hawthorne are assigned to shepherd a group of colonists to the planet that will serve as their new home.  But when their ship crash-lands on an unknown, hostile world, Buzz devotes himself to finding a wa

Blonde was written and directed by Andrew Dominik, based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates.  It’s a fictionalized retelling of the story of Marilyn Monroe.  Ana de Armas stars as Marilyn.  We follow her from her childhood with a mentally unstable mother through her meteoric