“Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn’t quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz — and he’s good. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul.” This Christmas 2020, Disney dropped another Pixar movie straight […]
Soul Movie Review | Another Great, Soulful Pixar Movie!
Welcome to Part: 21 of My Journey into Science-Fiction. If you would learn more about my journey and how it has taken me from Radar Men from the Moon to Ready Player One, click on the link below. My Journey into Science-Fiction Archives. I’m not sure I have come across anyone who has pointed out […]
Ready Player One, 2018. My Journey into Science-Fiction Part:21.
With 2021 nearly upon us, I wanted to count down my Top 10 worst films of this year. What are some of yours? Let me know! (Oliver’s Story) (1978) 1. Oliver’s Story (1978) – Two rich people meet and complain about how rich they are. Oh the inhumanity! For all of its faults, at least […]
Available on digital download from 16th November Finding Steve McQueen is based on the true events of the biggest bank robbery in US history when an organised gang broke into the United California Bank in 1972 to steel an alleged $30 million from the President’s secret funds of illegal campaign contributions. Harry Barber (Travis Fimmel) […]
Eugene “Joey” Albin and Julie A. Ward on the parallels between the imagined Viking past of “Midsommar” and the racist, nationalist myths held up by neo-Confederates in the USA.
Midsommar’s Nordic Nationalism and Neo-Confederate Nostalgia
In Wonder Woman 1984 – Diana Prince is back, navigating through the mid-80s as she tries to maintain a low profile while fighting off threats from both Maxwell Lord and Cheetah. Directed by Patty Jenkins, this sequel brings the thrills, the heart and the action, despite the story sometimes feeling like a lot. Coming off […]
WONDER WOMAN 1984 (2020) has Diana Prince kicking ass in a stylish 80s nostalgia-filled world
The Color Purple Release Date: December 18, 1985 Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Whoopie Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Oprah Winfrey. Tag Lines: “Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Story.” “It’s about life. It’s about love. It’s about us.” Relevance: ‘The Color Purple’ was released in December of 1985. Directed by […]
Ava tells story of Ava Faulkner (Jessica Chastain), who has a troubled past, a turbulent present, and an uncertain future. As we learn via a series of still frames during the film’s opening credits, Ava was the valedictorian of her high school class but her bright future was derailed by her own alcoholism. She killed […]
The Films of 2020: Ava (dir by Tate Taylor)
Poltergeist Release Date: June 4, 1982 Director: Tobe Hooper Starring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight. Tag Lines: “From a dimension beyond the living, a terror to scare you to death.” “Mommy, Daddy, where are you?” “Its form is revealed, Its focus is clear and the games are over.” “They’re here.” “It knows […]
West Side Story Release Date: October 18, 1961 Director: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins. Starring: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn. Tag Lines: “Watch this shot now. Hey. Shoot, man. Go. Hey, yeah.” “Unlike other classics, West Side Story grows younger!” “The Screen Achieves One of the Great Entertainments in the […]
Splendour. Here’s a cult classic from 2003 starring Paul Giamatti and Hope Davis. Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, it tells the tale of everyman comic book writer Harvey Pekar. American Splendor Harvey Pekar (1939-2010) became an unlikely underground comic book star. Although he wasn’t an artist, his sardonic autobiographical style appealed to […]
American Splendor: Fun Harvey Pekar Sort of Romp
Time: 99 Minutes Age Rating: Cast: Simon Pegg as Shaun Nick Frost as Ed Kate Ashfield as Liz Lucy Davis as Dianne Dylan Moran as David Penelope Wilton as Barbara Bill Nighy as Philip Director: Edgar Wright Shaun (Simon Pegg) is a salesman whose life has no direction. However, his uneventful life takes a sudden turn […]
Shaun of the Dead (2004) Review
Love (2015) Gaspar Noé, filmdeki sinema öğrencisi Murphy’nin “Kandan, spermden ve göz yaşından film yapmak istiyorum,” sözünü bu filmde tam bir başarıyla gerçekleştirmiş. böylece de gerçekten bugüne kadar hiçbir yönetmenin başaramadığı bir işi yaparak aşkın sinemada gösterilen romantik yüzünün ötesine geçerek onun acı ve karanlık yanını da çırılçıplak bir biçimde göz önüne sermiş.
What is the movie about? :: Henry Brogan (Will Smith), is a fifty one year old former Marine Sniper who had managed to go through the terrors of war in different wars in which United States of America was a part of. After finishing his assignments, he has been working as an assassin for the […]
I rarely do summaries of films. Just go to Wikipedia if you want that. But this still may contain spoilers! It’s hard to believe that the guy who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange could create something like Eyes Wide Shut. Is that a compliment or an insult? Well, depending on how […]
Another look at Eyes Wide Shut – A review of Stanley Kubrick’s last and final film
Prometheus (2012) Filmin özgün öyküsü özetle şu: Yeryüzünde yaşamı başlatan, “mühendis” dedikleri uzaylılarmış. Mühendislerin yurdunda yaşamı kim başlatmış, o konuya girilmiyor. Mühendisleri bulacaklarını umdukları yıldız sistemine araştırma yolculuğu yapmak için Peter Weyland bir bilimadamları takımı oluşturuyor. Vardıkları gezegende kafalarındaki sorulara beklemedikleri yanıtlar alıyorlar. Kendilerinden hoşnut olmayan bir mühendisle ve ayrıca öldürücü bir maddeyle yüz yüze […]
Fransa’nın kuzeyinde, dağlık alanda kasaba/köy arası merkezden oldukça uzak bir yerleşim yeri. Genç nüfusun çoğu terk etmiş, tek fabrikası da kapanmış çözümsüzlük içinde bir halk ve belediye başkanı.. Böyle bir yerin yöneticisisiniz, omuzlarınızdaki yük ağır, üstelik de doğduğunuz yere körü körüne bağlı olup; şehre yerleşme fikrine karşısınız da… Öte yandan da sorumluluklarınız var kasaba halkına, […]
We meet scientist Augustine (George Clooney) on a very bad day for humanity. The inevitability that climate change has been predicting for years is finally here, and in the end, it goes so much more quickly than we ever imagined. Augustine works at an Arctic station that is being frantically evacuated on this particular day, […]
Change can be difficult. So this is about a heavy metal drummer named Ruben (Riz Ahmed). His life is about to be thrown through a loop when he starts to lose his sense of hearing. He has no choice but to figure something out posthaste. Now I went into this movie fully expecting it to […]
High Price to Pay – Sound of Metal (2019)
