There’s a very specific target demographic in mind with director Sean McNamara’s The Miracle Season, a semi-faith-based, inspired-by-true-events underdog story about competitive girls’ volleyball. However, even they are sure to walk away from the theater unsatisfied with a movie that…
Blockers Movie Review: A film that 🐓 blocks itself
Throughout the 1980s the teen sex comedy was associated strictly with young men. Even today, movies focused on teenage girls losing their virginity – such as Maggie Carey’s The To-Do List – are rare. Director Kay Cannon’s Blockers, whose title…
Lean On Pete Movie Review: Andrew Haigh spins a beautiful and tragic coming of age tale
What tremendous lengths we go to in order to combat the impending sense of loneliness. That lingering sense of empty space along with the mechanisms of a coming of age story round out director Andrew Haigh’s latest feature film. Introspective,…
Where is Kyra Movie Review: Michelle Pfeiffer dominates quiet story of loss
The death of a parent is a final cutting of the apronstrings, a literal disassociation from the life you grew up with into the harsh world of adulthood. For some people, this is less of a shock if you exit…
Tyler Perry’s Acrimony Movie Review: Taraji P. Henson can’t save this disaster
As Taraji P. Henson’s Melinda begins to spin her web of woe while puffing on a cigarette in a therapist’s office, she insists she is not a stereotype. She practically steps into the audience with these words, intending to deflect…
Love After Love is a painfully honest look at loss and grief
Like its last rattle, death lingers. Grief prescribes no easy to follow manual in how someone deals with the loss of a loved one, especially when that someone was the glue that held so much of a family together. Without…
The China Hustle Movie Review
Imagine you’re a Chinese business and you want to enter the US market. Let’s also pretend that it’s around 2008 and the US stock market has just crashed thanks to the subprime mortgage crisis. Your country, on the other hand,…