Category: Netflix
‘Rez Ball’ Film Review: Grief Becomes Hope
Rez Ball is a beautiful, moving, and encouraging that tells its powerful true tale with respect and dedication to the Navajo nation and to all Native American and First Nations people.
‘His Three Daughters’ Film Review: A Moving Examination of Grief
Azazel Jacobs’ quietly moving chamber piece, His Three Daughters, begins with a monologue that will set the cadence of the film. Katie (Carrie Coon) is the oldest of three sisters who have convened in their dying father’s (Jay O. Sanders)
‘Rebel Ridge’ Film Review: A Wire-Tight, Unique, Thriller
Writer-director Jeremy Saulnier knows how to craft suspense. His 2007 debut feature, Murder Party, was a fun low-budget horror comedy that was filled with film references. It was a wild picture, but tightly designed. With 2013’s Blue Ruin, 2015’s Green
‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ Film Review: The Heat Is Lukewarm
Did modern movies need another Beverly Hills Cop? Probably not, but the new Netflix release, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, is a good way to re-introduce the Eddie Murphy of the 1980s. At the height of his fame and talents,
‘Hit Man’ Film Review: Glen Powell Becomes a Real Movie Star
One of Richard Linklater’s greatest strengths is his ability to write interesting screenplays about interesting characters. The talented writer-director is one of the few modern filmmakers who can take cliches and mold them into something real and relatable. If one
‘Unfrosted’ Film Review: Jerry Seinfeld’s Breakfast War Lunacy
A comedic origin story of the Pop Tart, co-written and directed by Jerry Seinfeld? I’m all in and ready to laugh. Well, I didn’t expect it to be THIS silly. While Seinfeld’s feature directing debut is miles away from a
‘Damsel’ Film Review: A Dark Female-Driven Adventure
In an age where almost all Hollywood has to offer are fantasy pictures and comic book adaptations that drown themselves in too much CGI, it is the rare film that breaks from the norm and actually finds ways to hold
‘Spaceman’ Film Review: A Profoundly Moving Sci-Fi Journey of the Soul
Among the sentences I could never imagine uttering, “an existentialist, science fiction, mood-piece starring Adam Sandler” would rank near the top. In director Johan Renck’s “Spaceman”, Sandler is quite enthralling in an impressive performance of depth and maturity surrounded by
‘Griselda’ Miniseries Review: Sofia Vergara Earns Her Dramatic Cred
Griselda Blanco was a Colombian drug lord throughout the 1970s and up to the late 1990s. Her story was unique, as women did not have that kind of power in the drug trade of the time. Blanco cut her path
‘Rebel Moon: Part One- A Child of Fire’ Film Review
Beginning with simplistic narration (provided by a slumming Sir Anthony Hopkins, who also voices a droid that is the “C-3PO” of the piece), Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon: Part One- A Child of Fire” sets its sights on being this generation’s