Airplane! Release Date: July 2, 1980 Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen. Tag Lines: You’ve read the ad, now see the movie!” “The IN-FLIGHT comedy that airlines won’t show!!{“ “What’s slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?” “Thank […]
“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!
Theaters/HBO Max: Jan 29 Theaters are scheduled reopen in Washington State effective January 4, 2021. If that happens, we’ll attempt to watch all wide release movies listed below in theaters. If not, we’ll have to do what we did throughout too much of 2020, watch them on streaming or VOD, whenever they are made available. […]
6 Movies COMING TO THEATERS in January 2021
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.
Truth Seekers has all the ingredients to quickly become a cult favorite among fans, but can Nick Frost and Simon Pegg pull off this mystery while maintaining their dry sarcastic humor? Let’s find out…
Spoiler-Free Review of “Truth Seekers” on Prime Video: The Paranormal can be fun
In season 11, episode 3, “Frances Francis Franny Frank,” Frank attempts to take Franny to school, which ends up being more difficult than he anticipated. Meanwhile, Carl gets a new partner, Tami gets some heartbreaking news, and Kev shows off with pride. My top 5 moments from Shameless season 11 episode 3 are:
Ranking the top 5 moments from “Shameless” season 11 episode 3: “Frances Francis Franny Frank”
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 […]
A new Frida Kahlo film will be appearing in cinemas from 20th October courtesy of Exhibition On Screen, the art documentary experts, who use their unique connections with galleries, museums and artists around the world to deliver onto the big screen outstanding biographical accounts of the world’s leading artists, this time providing a newly detailed story […]
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) […]
Silent Night is showing in UK cinemas from 11th December, on digital download from 18th December and DVD from 28th December. It’s a violent Christmas gangster film about a South London hitman Mark (Bradley Taylor – Surge) recently out of prison and trying to get his life straight in order to take care of his daughter. He’s doing […]
Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera’s recent film The Infiltrators uses a bold mix of film forms to tell the true story of a group of young undocumented activists who intentionally detain themselves in a South Florida immigration detention facility. Styled as a heist film, Ibarra and Rivera weave together verité footage, testimony, and reenactment to produce a compelling argument against immigration detention. In Diana Ruiz’s interview, Ibarra and Rivera discuss the ways in which The Infiltrators problematizes extractive modes of documentary film and how the project’s requisite reenactment brought about unexpected results. They also discuss the creative and political dimensions of “undocumented storytelling,” which relates to the filmmakers’ enduring commitment to depicting fully dimensional representations of immigrants and Latinx experiences.
From the Archives: The Infiltrators
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 […]
Dethklok is a metal band that started as an adult animated TV series on Adult Swim. Such a great name for a metal band show: Metalocalypse. Part of the show’s appeal has always been its intersection with the metal scene IRL — a subculture that has never lacked for self-awareness. From the outside, the world […]
FIRST LOOK: Metalocalypse (TV Series) – HBO Max
Filmed on location at the 2018 Winter Games, Olympic Dreams tells the story of two lost souls. Penelope (Alexi Pappas) is a skier who competes early and doesn’t win a medal. Ignored by the media and unsure of how to talk to her fellow athletes (or, for that matter, anyone else that she meets), Penelope […]
The Films of 2020: Olympic Dreams (dir by Jeremy Teicher)
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
