Month: June 2021

        Writing a review for F9: The Fast Saga seems almost pointless. The Fast & Furious franchise has been around for twenty years and in that time has churned out ten movies (F9 is the tenth), made billions of dollars at the domestic and international box office, and received pretty good critical acclaim. This is a franchise that has become a staple of the cinematic experience. Much like a movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe…

My reviews of The Novice, The Phantom, and Ultrasound from the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.     THE NOVICE   How far are you willing to go to be the best? Whenever this question is brought up in a movie, I am immediately hooked. Movies like Black Swan and Whiplash showcase protagonists who push themselves to their absolute limits, both physically and mentally, in order to be what the deem to be the best. Writer/director Lauren Hadaway’s film The Novice is the latest in this…

My reviews for See For Me, Catch the Fair One, and Dating & New York from the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.     SEE FOR ME   See for Me belongs in the same horror sub-genre as Rear Window and Hush in that the film is thriller revolves around a protagonist with a handicap. In Rear Window, it was a man confined to a wheel chair due to a broken leg who suspected his neighbor of killing his wife. In Hush, it was a…

My reviews of Blind Ambition, Mark, Mary & Some Other People, and Wolfgang from the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.       BLIND AMBITION   Blind Ambition is a documentary that plays like an underdog sports movie in the vein of Cool Runnings, but there is no athleticism involved. This is a movie about a group of refugees from Zimbabwe who now reside in South Africa who try to win the global Wine Tasting Olympics. This is…

        In the Heights is a perfect movie for a post pandemic world. After over a year of staying home, social distancing, and not being able to see friends and family members, we are slowly getting back to normalcy as the world begins to open back. John M. Chu’s fantastic musical wants to celebrate everything that we’ve missed in the last year. It is a movie about community, love, life, and fun…