Film Reviews
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DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE: Two Big Bloody Chest Muscles Pumping Pure Diesel
No matter how profane, gory, or downright nasty the Deadpool franchise gets, it has a heart.
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Deadpool and Wolverine – Julian’s Review
All right, Trill Believers, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has had some troubles lately with the fans’ feelings overall through some of the shows, some actions by an actor, and just not packing them in the…
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Twisters
An ex-storm chaser is pulled back into that chaotic world but finds a lot more than she bargained for, especially as Oklahoma suffers a disastrous outbreak of tornadoes.
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Longlegs
Longlegs – if you don’t know what this is, don’t feel bad; the marketing is very obtuse in trying to reach the public consciousness. I heard fellow critics being very excited about seeing this film…
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Fly Me to the Moon
Fly Me To The Moon is a weird film to me. It’s a film that takes what is a clear conspiracy theory and then wraps it up in a cute period romantic comedy. I find…
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MaXXXine
(This review will have spoilers for Ti West’s X.) Ti West just gave A24 its first trilogy and franchise with MaXXXine. The third film in the series is a direct sequel to the first film,…
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The Three ‘Kinds of Kindness’
Kinds of Kindness is a triptych exploring the human obsession with privilege, love, and religious fanaticism
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Space Cadet
Prime Video’s Space Cadet premieres for post-fireworks fun on July 4th, blending workplace rom-com with space travel dreams.
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Despicable Me 4
I never thought Despicable Me would be such a major animated franchise rivaling Disney and Dreamworks in the cinematic landscape. The weird-shaped man voiced by Steve Carell, who is a villain who becomes a father…
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Kinds of Kindness
So eight months after his hit and Academy Award-winning film Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos is back in the theater with what will be the wildest film of summer 2024 – Kinds of Kindness. Now, unlike…
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A Quiet Place: Day One
So A Quiet Place, the surprise survival horror film franchise that exploded onto the world in 2018, starring Emily Blunt and directed and co-written by John Krasinski, took audiences on a ride. The anticipated sequel…
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Sherin Takes on Tribeca 2024
For the second year, Sherin covered the Tribeca Film Festival for AWFJ. What did she think? So many thoughts.
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The Bikeriders
So The Bikeriders is a film that I didn’t expect to like before I saw it. The reason was the talk months ago about it, which seemed to be some road trip film with some…
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Ultraman: Rising
Ultraman – one of the most known Tokusatsu and Superhero characters from Japan known all over the globe. Created by Eiji Tsuburaya after co-creating Godzilla, Ultra Q, and later, the titular Ultraman is a hero…
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INSIDE OUT 2 – Sherin’s Review
Inside Out 2 is Giving Anxiety and the Giving is Good When the first INSIDE OUT premiered in 2015, my niece, Jasmine, asked me to see it together. As an animation girl, it was an…
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Inside Out 2 – Julian’s Review
I don’t want to start this off with sentiments like Pixar is back because Lightyear didn’t work for many when it was released. It also wasn’t their fault that four of their films were directly…
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HAIKYUU!! The Dumpster Battle
What happens when our favorite underdog team meets another team of underdogs?
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The Watchers
If folks have an issue with nepotism in the show business, this film The Watchers isn’t going to help quell those issues. The supernatural horror film is directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan, who is the…
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Family Matters in Bad Boys: Ride or Die
A few years ago, I started using the term “misery parade” to describe the books, series, and films that gear up on tragedy and press the accelerator. That term is perfect for these times. Much…
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Young Woman and the Sea
Young Woman and the Sea tells the story of Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, a real person from the early 20th century who was a champion swimmer and the first woman to swim the English Channel. This…