Category: Music

  • Movie Review: “Song One”

    Movie Review: “Song One”

    Franny (Anne Hathaway) was working on her PhD thesis in Morocco when her mother, Karen (Mary Steenburgen), called to tell her that her brother, Henry (Ben Rosenfield), was in a coma in the hospital. She needs to come home. Sitting with the comatose Henry, Franny regretted their last argument 6 months ago about him pursuing…

  • Movie Review: “Wonka”

    Movie Review: “Wonka”

    After spending 7 years at sea, and having developed a line of chocolates that are “exquisite”, Willy Wonka (Timothee Chalamet) is ready to settle down and make money selling his chocolates. He even has a place staked out for his factory. Unfortunately, that location is surrounded by other chocolate manufacturers….and they are not happy about…

  • Movie Review: “Spirited”

    Movie Review: “Spirited”

    Fresh off their success redeeming their latest mean person the three ghosts: Present (Will Ferrell), Past (Sunita Mani), and Yet-To-Come (Tracy Morgan & Loren G. Woods) set out to find the next humbug asshole to redeem next Christmas. They find Clint Briggs (Ryan Reynolds) but the ghost’s boss, Marley (Patrick Page), quickly turns him down…

  • 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: “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: “I Used To Be Famous”

    Movie Review: “I Used To Be Famous”

    20 years ago Vince (Ed Skrein) was in a boy band and was super famous. Unfortunately, Vince had to choose between his brother and the band. He chose his brother. Now Vince is still struggling to make money trying to get noticed in bars, or on the street. Things are not going well, but, Vince…

  • Movie Review: “CODA”

    Movie Review: “CODA”

    Click the link to Wikipedia for more information: CODA = Child of Deaf Adults Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones) is the youngest child of Jackie (Marlee Matlin) and Frank (Troy Kotsur) and the sister of Leo (Daniel Durant). Ruby is the only member of the family that can hear. As such, she is critically important to…

  • Movie Review: “Lyle Lyle Crocodile”

    Movie Review: “Lyle Lyle Crocodile”

    Hector P. Valenti (Javier Barden) has dreams of becoming a star. Unfortunately, his act is passe and after he was booted from his latest audition, he was told he needed something they have never seen before. Walking home to his family’s brownstone in New York City, Hector goes into an exotic animal store to look…

  • Movie Review: “Disenchanted”

    Movie Review: “Disenchanted”

    15 years after finding her happily ever after, Giselle (Amy Adams), is finding that she is not happily ever after. The New York apartment, and life, she shares with Robert (Patrick Dempsey), suddenly sullen teenage daughter, Morgan (Gabriella Baldacchino), and baby Sofia (Mila and Lara Jackson) is now smaller and a whole lot more hectic…