Category: drama

  • “The Map That Leads to You” Movie Review

    “The Map That Leads to You” Movie Review

    Heather (Madelyn Cline) has a plan for her life: College, a good job, find a guy, start a family, live happily ever after. But that plan has to wait a couple of weeks as she and her two friends, Connie (Sofia Wylie) and Amy (Madison Thompson) embark on an exciting adventure touring Spain and Portugal.…

  • “The Penguin Lessons” Movie Review

    “The Penguin Lessons” Movie Review

    A divorced English teacher, Tom (Steve Coogan), is working his way around the globe in a southernly direction. This year, 1976, he has chosen to teach in politically unstable Argentina. Starting the year, and after a military coup, Tom decides to head to Uruguay for a week or so to let the situation in Argentina…

  • “My Oxford Year” Movie Review

    “My Oxford Year” Movie Review

    Anna De La Vega (Sofia Carson) is living the life she hoped she would lead (she has a list). Oxford University is the next step and Sofia is there, ready to study poetry. Hoping to study under a famous professor, she learns instead that the teacher this year will be the Teachers Assistant (TA) Jamie…

  • “The Life List” Movie Review

    “The Life List” Movie Review

    When Alex (Sofia Carson) was 13 years old, at a sleep over, she wrote a list of what she wanted in her life. That list is still intact today when, unfortunately, her mother Elizabeth (Connie Britton) passed away from cancer. Family lawyer, Brad (Kyle Allen), called the family together for the reading of the will,…

  • “Deep Cover” Movie Review

    “Deep Cover” Movie Review

    Hugh (Nick Mohammed) is an IT guy and is treated like shit at his job. Marlon (Orlando Bloom) is a wanna be serious actor now doing commercials for a frozen pizza company. They meet at the local improv comedy school where they hope to leave their fears and disappointments behind as improv comics. Kat (Bryce…

  • “Fountain of Youth” Movie Review

    “Fountain of Youth” Movie Review

    A very rich asshole is dying of liver cancer. Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson) has hired treasure hunter, Luke Purdue (John Krasinski), to find the “Fountain of Youth” thinking that one drink from those fabled waters will cure him…..forever. With reluctant help from Luke’s sister, Charlotte (Natalie Portman), a team is put together to find the…

  • “Nonnas” Movie Review

    “Nonnas” Movie Review

    Growing up in a close Italian family in New York, Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn) loved his grandmother’s (Nonnas) and mother’s cooking. Now that his mother has passed away, Joe, after caring for her for many years, has no one and, other than his boring job, nothing to do. Rather than being depressed, he decides to…

  • “The Rewrite” Movie Review

    “The Rewrite” Movie Review

    Award winning Hollywood actor and screenwriter, Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant), has fallen on hard times and is desperately looking for work. His agent finally set him up with a screenwriting teaching position at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Binghamton? Where the heck is that? Going there with the best intentions of doing…

  • “Hearts Beat Loud” Movie Review

    “Hearts Beat Loud” Movie Review

    Widower Frank Fisher (Nick Offerman) has kept his love of music alive by having weekly jam sessions with his teenage daughter, Sam (Kiersey Clemons), and, for the past 17 years, running his vinyl record store. Sam is about to leave New York City for UCLA Med School and the jam sessions mean the world to…