Category: Movie Reviews

“The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir” Movie Review and Trailer

Ajatashatru Lavash Patel (Dhanush) found out when he was very young that he was poor. At that moment, he decided he did not like being poor and vowed to be rich. Many years later, Ajat is a magician, and thief, performing on the streets of Mumbai when he finally decides to live his mothers dream:…

August 28, 2020
“Ideal Home” Movie Review and Trailer

Santa Fe TV chef, Erasmus Brumble (Steve Coogan), and his lover of 10 years, Paul (Paul Rudd) are living the ideal life. A beautiful home, fame, fortune, and friends galore. One night, during a fancy dinner party, a little kid, Bill / Angel (Jack Gore), shows up with a bible and a message. Turns out,…

August 27, 2020
“The Old Guard” Movie Review and Trailer

Andy (Charlize Theron) is the leader, and oldest, of an immortal team of soldiers. Over the ages, she and her team (Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts), Joe (Marwan Kenzari), and Nicky (Luca Marinelli)) have fought for good (or sometimes evil depending on the century) and always live to fight again. Even though they do not really understand…

August 10, 2020
“The Princess and the Frog” Movie Review and Trailer

Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) grew up wanting to own her own restaurant in honor of her hardworking, loving, dad. A waitress, saving every spare penny for a down payment of a building she would fix up as the restaurant, Tiana ignored the naysayers and followed her dad’s advice that through hard work, she can do…

August 8, 2020
“Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” Movie Review and Trailer

This, Andy Serkis directed version of the jungle book, was scheduled to arrive in theaters at the very same time as Jon Favreau’s live action version of Disney’s “The Jungle Book”. “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” was pushed back a year, but, ultimately ended up on Netflix. Life is tough in the jungle…..and in Hollywood.…

August 3, 2020
Movie Review: “The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet”

T.S. (Kyle Catlett) and Layton (Jakob Davies) Spivet were twins born on a ranch in Montana, but, they could not have been more different. Layton was carefree, daring, and loved to shoot his gun. The apple of his father’s (Callum Keith Rennie) eye. T.S. was studious and brilliant, taking after his mother, Dr, Claire (Helena…

August 2, 2020
“Despicable Me 2” Movie Review and Trailer

Gru (Steve Carell) is an ex-supervillian and now, super-dad, to his three daughters: Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Agnes (Elsie Fisher), and Edith (Dana Gaier). He, his minions, and evil techy dude, Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand), now make jelly in the high tech basement of his home, but…..unfortunately……Nefario is bored and tells Gru he has another job…

July 31, 2020
“Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made” Movie Review and Trailer

After his father walked out on the family, Timmy Failure (Winslow Fegley) enters a world of make believe as a coping mechanism. He ignores his school work, he is in 5th grade and his collaborators do not want to work with him because he brings their grades down. He acts up in class, draws pictures…

July 30, 2020
“Sleeping with the Fishes” Movie Review and Trailer

Alexis Fish (Gina Rodriguez), a widowed event planner living in Los Angeles, is back home in Brooklyn for a relatives funeral. She only plans to stay a few days even though she has no jobs in LA, no family, and no friends. Alexis’s sister, Kayla (Ana Ortiz) has set Alexis up with a Bat Mitzvah…

July 29, 2020