Movie Reviews

Coming-of-age stories take many forms, but one universal truth they all adhere to is that young people have to learn that the world kind of…

Happiness might be one of the most basic and elusive of human desires. Everyone wants to be happy and in turn wants their loved ones…

The writer of a play or a screenplay is typically regarded as “the man (or woman) behind the curtain” whose work, while essential, is unseen…

Photo courtesy 20th Century Studios Over the past 25 years, James Cameron hasn’t been in much of a rush to make feature films; but, when…

Photo courtesy Universal Pictures If you are going to make a movie with Santa Claus as an action hero, you have to get the tone…

Photo courtesy Universal Pictures Steven Spielberg was the reason I learned that there was a person called a director behind every movie. After cranking out…

Photo courtesy Universal Pictures When the #MeToo movement spread across social media at the end of the last decade, women all over the world shared…

Photo courtesy Netflix “Looking through the bent-backed tulipsTo see how the other half liveLooking through a glass onion.” – The Beatles In “Knives Out,” writer/director…

Photo courtesy Mavel Studios The death of actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020 was shocking not only because he was a relatively young man, but also…

“The Take Out Move” is not a movie, at least not in the conventional sense. Instead it is a series of bits filmed against the…