Movie Review – The League

Movie Review – The League

  The League is an informative and excellent documentary about the Negro League, the all Black baseball league that produced some of the greatest baseball players to ever play the game, like Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, and Satchel Paige. The film looks at how the League got started in the late 1800s, the struggles it faced, and the effect it had on Black America and its communities. When most people think about the Negro League…

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Movie Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Movie Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

  Much of the advertising for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has been centered around the film’s centerpiece action scene, which finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise, doing the stunt himself, as we’ve come to expect) driving a motorcycle off of a cliff and opening a parachute on the way down. The advertisers at Paramount were right to focus on that scene because it lives up to the anticipation. It is a breathtaking sequence…

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Best Movies of 2023 (So Far)

Best Movies of 2023 (So Far)

We have reached the halfway point of 2023, which means it is time to look back at the best movies of 2023 so far. I have seen 73 new release movies so far in 2023 (102 total including film festival movies and movies that will be released later this year. Overall 2023 has been a pretty good year for movies. I will say that of all the movies I have seen, my top six or…

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Movie Review: Asteroid City

Movie Review: Asteroid City

  Writer/director Wes Anderson’s newest film, Asteroid City, finds the director firing on all cylinders in a movie that defines what a Wes Anderson movie is: visually stunning, immaculately constructed, a stellar ensemble cast, funny and bright with layers of sadness to it. The film opens in a black-and-white, nearly squared frame with a Twilight Zone-like Host (Bryan Cranston) explaining that we are about to watch a television program about the making of a play…

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Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

  Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is the fifth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise that first kicked off over forty years ago with Raiders of the Lost Arc. Though it is missing some of the magic and technical mastery of the previous Indiana Jones films, this is a rousing and entertaining send-off to one of cinema’s greatest heroes. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny takes place in 1969 shortly after the…

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Movie Review: Afire

Movie Review: Afire

  Following his films Phoenix, Transit, and Undine, director Christian Petzold has become one of my favorite filmmakers working today. His films are masterfully made, and he always gets great performances from his actors. His latest film, Afire, continues Petzold’s trend of great movies. But unlike his previous films which took us back to the World War II era or dealt with fantastical romances, Afire is a movie set in the real world that looks…

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Movie Review: The Unknown Country

Movie Review: The Unknown Country

  The Unknown Country is an outstanding movie that blurs the line between fiction and reality. Inspired by the likes of Wim Wenders and Agnes Varda, director Morrisa Maltz crafted an emotional and arresting journey through Midwest and Western America. In the film, Tana (Lily Gladstone), drives from Minnesota to Dallas searching for some catharsis following the death of her grandmother. She makes various stops, from gas stations to motels to an Indian Reservation her…

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Movie Review: BlackBerry

Movie Review: BlackBerry

  Growing up, it felt like everyone knew someone who had a BlackBerry, the iconic smartphone with a keyboard that produced that infectious clicking sound. I know my father had one and still talks to this day about how much he loved it. BlackBerry phones dominated the cell phone market for years in the early 2000s. But now, they don’t even sniff the surface of relevancy in the cell phone market. How did the most…

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Movie Review: The Flash

Movie Review: The Flash

  Andy Muschietti’s The Flash is a bad film. A soulless, ugly, dumb film that perfectly symbolizes everything that is wrong and has been wrong with the films of the DC Extended Universe. It is a movie that only exists for fanboys and Twitter.  Everything that happens in The Flash feels like a series of random events, characters, and plots that were thrown together in an attempt to make a movie. It follows Barry Allen/The…

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Movie Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Movie Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a revolutionary film. It is a film that pushes the boundaries of animation on film. A film that questions the conventions of superhero movies and their genre tropes. A comic book movie sequel that is as big, bold, and ambitious as any we have ever seen. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, is a phenomenal comic book movie sequel. Like other great comic book movie sequels like Spider-Man 2 and The Dark…

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