Movie Reviews

  Scream VI takes the Scream franchise to a place it’s never been before: cross country to New York City. Usually taking place in the fictional Californian city of Woodsboro (except for Scream 3, which took us to a Hollywood film set that resembled Woodsboro), going to New York seemed like the next logical step in a horror franchise that has been going on for nearly twenty-five years. We’ve seen Friday the 13th do it…

  Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre is a globe-trotting, slick spy thriller that is non-stop fun and never overly complicated. Operation Fortune gets going right from the start. Co-writer/director Guy Ritchie wastes no time in establishing the players of the film. Nathan (Cary Elwes), working for some sort of British intelligence agency, is putting together a team of the best spies he can get his hands on in order to stop the sale of deadly…

  Michael B. Jordan makes his feature directorial debut with Creed III, an exciting, emotional, and impressively-made film that solidifies that this franchise belongs to Jordan. After winning his final fight against “Pretty” Ricky Conlan (Tony Bellew), the boxer he fought at the end of the first film, Adonis (Jordan, proving once again why he is one of the best leading men working in Hollywood today) is now retired from boxing.  We find him a…

  Flora and Son is writer/director John Carney’s first film since 2016’s delightful Sing Street. Yet even with a seven-year hiatus, Carney has not missed a step as a writer, director, and songwriter. Flora and Son is a wonderful and whimsical tale about the mother-son relationship and how creativity can bring people together. Set in a small Irish town, Flora and Son follows Flora (Eve Hewson), a young, irresponsible woman living in an apartment complex full of unique characters. Flora’s…

  Sometimes I Think About Dying is the latest film from director Rachel Lambert and is adapted from the award-winning short film of the same name by Stefanie Abel Horowitz. The film follows a woman named Fran (Daisy Ridley) who likes to think about dying while working at her mundane office job. She’s good at making spreadsheets and hardly ever talks to or even acknowledges her co-workers. After work, she goes home to her lonely…

  Mami Wata is a stunning cinematic experience. Director C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi put his blood, sweat, and tears into this seven-year process of making the film and the final product was worth the effort. Mami Wata is a gorgeous movie rooted in West African folklore. Set in the remote West African village of Iyi. the villagers worship a Mermaid-diety named Mami Wata, who lives in the body of water on the island’s coast. The villagers…

  Infinity Pool was one of my most anticipated movies of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Director Brandon Cronenberg, son of the legendary David Cronenberg, has immediately established himself as an exciting voice in horror with his first two films, 2012’s Antiviral and 2020’s Possessor, one of my favorite movies from that year’s Sundance, by making visceral, grotesque horror films that run in the same vein as his father’s iconic body horror films while also…

  Pianoforte is a documentary that looks that the Chopin Piano Competition, the prestigious competition held in Warsaw, Poland that sees the world’s best young piano players come together and compete for a chance of a lifetime. It is a gripping, emotional ride filled with thrilling musical numbers as well as a fascinating analysis on competition and the pursuit of perfection. Director Jakub Piątek, whose feature film debut, Prime Time, premiered at the 2021 virtual…

  If there was a way to invest in the careers of an actor, like buying stock in a company in hopes of future gains, I would take all the money I have and invest it in the career of Jonathan Majors. From the first time I saw him in 2019’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco to last year’s war-epic Devotion, Majors has been a star on the rise, consistently giving great performances…