My Dead Friend Zoe: “I’ve lost more peacemakers here than I’ve lost in Iraq,” carefully words a particular American veteran during any of the group therapy sessions in the movie, ‘My Dead Friend Zoe,’ which Kyle Hausmann-Stokes examines in his documentary that touches on ex-servicepeople’s mental health. The filmmaker and the protagonist lost many of […]
The Fabulous Four: In Hollywood, being a senior male actor and receiving a high status comes with earning roles such as a soldier who has been shipped off to combat (Michael Caine), an angry father or God (Morgan Freeman), Indiana Jones or an inspiring doctor (Harrison Ford), a fighting Tom Cruise, a Freudian worried about
“Gracie and Pedro: Pets to the Rescue” is quite possibly the ugliest animated movie ever and it has even managed to be worse than other live action movies that were downright terrible. First of all, I apologize because it sounds as though I am bullying the movie—“Gracie and Pedro: Pets to the Rescue” is intended
Riff Raff: Dito Montiel’s family crime drama thriller, ‘Riff Raff’ is a family crime comedy that runs for only 103 minutes. Sounds a bit short lived. And one would be justified to feel as such considering most, if not all, of the film’s cast were reasonably good but the entire film lacked momentum. Although the
“Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” is a perfect remake, and within its first few minutes, director Wade Allain-Marcus has already changed the narrative. Not leaving a beat to his modern version of what is now a nine nineties classic, he prepares an innocent girl for somewhere she doesn’t want to be and for something
In Our Church Thinks We’re Dating, we meet Pastor’s daughter, Jess, who is practically the leader of all the boob friends, for some reason keeping the tub activities in a very religious circle. Although she is fond of organizing mission trips and service outings with this group of friends – particularly her hall mate Rachel
Treasure: Lily Brett, an Australian-born novelist and essayist, is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and writes about that issue and condition quite a lot. Her 2001 novel Too Many Men deals with the travels of a daughter and her father to Poland in order to uncover the father’s catastrophic history. Several themes are paramount, including
We are obsessed with Boot Camp. Gina Musa’s original novel has been excellently transformed, and it appears that this film is more than it seems. It is about the strength of the will to look for one’s way in the world whatever the odds. Are you ready? On the surface, Boot Camp appears to be
Netflix’s Thelma the Unicorn is much closer to the dark adult animation series BoJack Horseman and quite much further from Illumination’s boring Sing series. The myths of originality are however not lost due to the inclusion of acid humor and a bunch of eccentric characters. Based on the author Aaron Blabey’s popular 2015 picture book,
The film, “Sweet Dreams” offers a new take on the violent era where the conquering of Africa was reduced to a cruel game. The film has its own this black comical touch and that is what gives “Sweet Dreams” its uniqueness. This makes the film’s plot memorable even though it, unfortunately, does not seem to
