Film Reviews
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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…
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‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ Conversation
George Miller’s return to the wasteland and to Mad Max is so big we had to double up for another RIOTUS Tag Team review.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – Drew’s Review
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA tells the story of the wasteland warrior who was a match for Mad Max–and how she got where she was.
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The Garfield Movie
Garfield was one of my favorite comic strips growing up. It was one of the first titles I read consistently, especially by going to the library and checking out the strip collections, as there were…
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I Saw the TV Glow
A24’s newest release is a hauntingly effective portrait of identity, nostaglia, and the transgender experience that’s hard to shake.
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IF
John Krasinski’s new film IF has always been quite peculiar to me as I couldn’t get a handle on what this film is and who it is for. Now, so that people don’t think I’m…
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Back to Black
It’s wild how something that used to seem so recent is actually a long time ago. Time moves very, very fast at times, even when the art and culture you love feel frozen in amber.…
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
It can be said that the feat of rebooting old franchises in a new era is quite challenging, and there have been many failures over the years for many reasons. It’s surprising that the 2011…
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The Fall Guy
I might be one of the only people under fifty years old who has been excited about The Fall Guy and knows that it’s a movie that is a reboot of the television show. The…
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Challengers
Luca Guadagnino’s newest feature is being marketed as a sexy sports thriller, but is that really the case? Here’s our review.
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BABES: For the Messy Benches Who Love Drama
Throwing back to the neurotic New York City dramedies of the 80s and 90s, BABES flips the paradigm, showing a different view of the genre, where lifelong friendship and motherhood collide.
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A Gorgeous Elegy of Childhood: We Grown Now
Sony Classics shared two quotes from our own Sherin Nicole on the film she calls crushing yet undeniably lovely, WE GROWN NOW: “a gorgeous elegy of childhood” “a poetic reminiscence on love in its many…