Category: drama

  • “Nightbooks” Movie Review

    “Nightbooks” Movie Review

    Alex (Winslow Fegley) loves to write short horror stories in his nightbook. Overhearing his parents one night, Alex does not like what he hears, gets angry, and with all his writing he heads to the basement boiler room…. …to burn eveything. But he never gets there. The elevator stops a few floors down and lets…

  • “The Vault” Movie Review

    “The Vault” Movie Review

    Walter (Liam Cunningham) is an explorer. He spent the last several years hunting down a treasure that sank with a ship in the 1600’s. And now, he has the key to the location of Drake’s buried treasure worth more than anyone can imagine. Then…..the Spanish government swoops in, takes the treasure, and locks it up…

  • “Bliss” Movie Review

    “Bliss” Movie Review

    Greg Wittle (Owen Wilson) is struggling at work. He is recently divorced and estranged from his daughter and son. His life is unraveling. Greg spends his hours at work making intricate drawings of a fantastical location, with beautiful buildings and scenery, and one beautiful woman. He says these are his thoughts and he can’t seem…

  • “Adrift” Movie Review

    “Adrift” Movie Review

    Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) is seeing the world, working when she can, doing whatever with no plans for life and no destination in mind. She is living the good life as a 23 year old in 1983. Ending up in Tahiti, Tami meets Richard Sharp (Sam Claflin) and the two fall in love! A Hallmark…

  • “From the Vine” Movie Review

    “From the Vine” Movie Review

    Automotive executive, Marco Gentile (Joe Pantoliano), promised his mentor to always do the right thing…from the heart. When it came time to give a speech on the state-of-the-company, the bored (sic) of directors made changes to Marco’s presentation and Marco was at an inflection point…..do what is in his heart…..or do what the directors want.…

  • “Skater Girl” Movie Review

    “Skater Girl” Movie Review

    Prerna (Rachel Saanchita Gupta) lives in a small village in India where the old ways, although unspoken, rule the day. As such, her old fashioned dad thinks that Prerna should be married, not go to school, and should be content cooking lentils and doing housework. Prerna wants more….much more……and being a strong-willed young woman, she…

  • “The Ice Road” Movie Review

    “The Ice Road” Movie Review

    After knocking out a fellow trucker for making fun of his brother (who has a brain injury from the war) Gurty (Marcus Thomas), Mike (my hero, Liam Neeson) and his brother…..both lose their jobs. A diamond mine in Canada has a horrific methane explosion that kills 8 miners and traps 26. The trapped miners have…

  • “Ondine” Movie Review

    “Ondine” Movie Review

    Syracuse (Colin Farrell) is a hardworking fisherman recovering from addiction while helping his ex-wife support their young daughter, who happens to be wheelchair-bound with kidney failure, Annie (Alison Barry). One day while trolling with his nets, Syracuse finds a woman entangled in the nets! Yikes! Ondine (Alicja Bachleda) is barely alive but, Syracuse revives her…

  • “Fatherhood” Movie Review

    “Fatherhood” Movie Review

    Matt Logelin (Kevin Hart) lost his wife the day after Maddy (Melody Hurd) was born. A single dad with no clue on how to raise and care for an infant, Matt relied on his friends, Jordan (Lil Rel Howery) and Oscar (Anthony Carrigan) to help him, if with nothing else, moral support. His mother and…