Category: indie

  • 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: “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: “To the Stars”

    Movie Review: “To the Stars”

    It’s the early 1960’s (actually you would think it was 2023 by the way the hateful people are behaving), and Iris Deerborne (Kara Hayward) is an outcast in her small town. Because she is abused by the mean girls in high school and harassed by the dumb-ass boys, Iris is content to be alone. To…

  • Movie Review: “Always Woodstock”

    Movie Review: “Always Woodstock”

    Catherine Brown (Allison Miller) works at a music studio. She aspires to be a singer / songwriter, but, is only wrangling a spoiled superstar. She is not happy. In addition to her work, Catherine found her boyfriend of 10 years in the shower with someone else! Yikes! Remembering what her late father said to her:…

  • Movie Review: “A Chance Encounter”

    Movie Review: “A Chance Encounter”

    After the death of his mother, emerging poet, Hal Flynn (Paul Peterson), travels to Taormina, Italy for inspiration and time to honor his mother who left him some money to pursue his passion. Arriving in Taormina he happens upon a woman singing and playing guitar in a plaza by the ocean, and recognizes her as…

  • Movie Review: “The Sunlit Night”

    Movie Review: “The Sunlit Night”

    Frances (Jenny Slate) is an artist, and her world just came unraveled. Her latest art work was dissed by a panel of judges, she just broke up with her boyfriend, her sister announced her engagement, and her parents announced their separation. Frances needs to get away! Luckily, she found work for the summer, painting a…

  • Movie Review: “Love Sarah”

    Movie Review: “Love Sarah”

    Sarah (Candice Brown) and her best friend Isabella (Shelley Conn) have both signed the lease of an empty space in London and about to open the bakery of their dreams. Unfortunately, Sarah never made it to the space, and Isabella is left alone to pay the bills, or find a renter for the space. Sarah’s…