Category: drama

  • Movie Review: “Take Care”

    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…

  • Movie Review: “Flora and Son”

    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…

  • Movie Review: “Love at First Sight”

    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…

  • Movie Review: “Jerry and Marge Go Large”

    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…

  • Movie Review: “The Storied Life of AJ Fikry”

    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…

  • Movie Review: “Peace by Chocolate”

    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…

  • Movie Review: “Somewhere in Queens”

    Movie Review: “Somewhere in Queens”

    Leo Russo (Ray Romano) was born and raised in a large Italian family in Queens, New York. He has a big heart, but, is not the sharpest tack in a family of tacks. His wife, Angela (Laurie Metcalf) is a tough as nails cancer survivor. She does not put up with any shit….from anyone. Gotta…

  • Movie Review: “Rams”

    Movie Review: “Rams”

    In Australian sheep country, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton) are brothers living next to each other, but…..have not spoken to each other in 40 years. They are both sheep ranchers and each has a prize winning ram to show at the county fair. After the winner is chosen, Colin notices some symptoms of…

  • Movie Review: “Easy A”

    Movie Review: “Easy A”

    Olive (Emma Stone) is a quiet student that hardly anyone knows and virtually no one sees. One day Brandon (Dan Byrd), who is being harrassed in school for being gay, asks her if he could pay her to fake hookup with her. After a quick negotiation, Olive and Brandon do their fake hookup at a…