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Movie Review: “Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose”

Nandor Fodor (Simon Pegg) was a paranormal psychologist back in the 1930’s. He was quite famous and, although he was a true believer at the start of his career, he became a skeptic later on. This movie is based in his skeptic years, or is the start of his skeptic years. Eventually, Nandor believed that…
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Movie Review: “On the Rocks”

Struggling with writers block, successful author Laura (Rashida Jones) is regretting signing up for her next book without it being finished. Unofortunately, her writers block is having an effect on her marriage to Dean (Marlon Wayans). Dean is starting a new company and is travelling a lot on business with his team. Coming home from…
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Movie Review: “Haunted Mansion”

A Doctor, Gabbie (Rosario Dawson), and her son, Travis (Chase Dillon), are moving to a new home. Unfortunately, that new home is not what they expected and after a run-in with several ghosts, they leave. Smart move! Except that a few ghosts hid in their car and forced them to return. Yikes! Stuck in the…
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Movie Review: “Take Care”

Returning to her 4 story walk-up apartment after being hit by a car, Frannie (Leslie Bibb) is couch-bound for (according to her doctor) somewhere between 6 weeks and 27 years. Even though her sister and friends vowed to take care of her, they have lives of their own and Frannie, with a broken leg AND…
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Movie Review: “Flora and Son”

Single mom, Flora (Eve Hewson) is struggling to keep her 14 year old son, Max (Oren Kinlan) from committing more crimes than he already has. The advice the local garda gave her is to find something for Max to do, or it will be jail time! Passing a garbage dump near a rennovated home, Flora…
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Movie Review: “Love at First Sight”

20 year old, Hadley Sullivan (Haley Lu Richardson) is flying from JFK in New York to London to be a bridesmaid in her father’s wedding. It’s complicated. Hadley misses her fight! 22 year old Yale statistics major, Oliver Jones (Ben Hardy) is flying from JFK in New York to London for his mother’s memorial. It’s…
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Movie Review: “Jerry and Marge Go Large”

After 42 years working for the same company, Jerry Selbee (Bryan Cranston), is being forced to retire. Not sure what to do in retirement, Jerry is depressed and his wife, Marge (Annette Bening) is feeling the strain (when they were supposed to be having fun in their “golden years”). One day, Jerry was sitting is…
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Movie Review: “The Storied Life of AJ Fikry”

A.J. Fikry’s (Kunal Nayyar) wife passed away a year ago. Since then, AJ has been drowning his sorrows in booze and letting his beautiful little bookstore go to crap. The new sales representative for a book publisher, Amelia (Lucy Hale), has to travel 5 hours to get to AJ’s Alice Island bookstore. On her first…
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Movie Review: “Peace by Chocolate”

Leaving war torn Syria (where his father’s chocolate factory was just destroyed) for Canada, Tareq (Ayham Abou Ammar), is ready to start a new life…..and help his parents and sister join him. Almost finished with his medical degree, Tareq applies to numerous colleges….none of which accept him. Tareq’s mother and father, Issam (Hatem Ali), join…

