Film Reviews
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Candy Cane Lane
It’s the Christmas season, so now we’re in the wave of holiday movies, especially on all the many streaming services and basic cable channels. Amazon MGM has one entry themselves, Candy Cane Lane partnering Eddie…
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The Boy and the Heron
Miyizaki returns to the markers of his style. A young person (a boy this time but traditionally a girl) dealing with the repercussions of war and the portal fantasy through which they escape—but only for…
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Napoleon
We have two octogenarians out here in the modern cinema landscape. With Scorsese taking up a lot of the mind space because of superhero movie fans’ issues with his feelings about the MCU and Superhero…
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Wish
So Disney is celebrating 100 years this year. What’s funny is that it might be in the most tumultuous years in its history, between the writers’ and actors’ strikes happening simultaneously and the CEO becoming…
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
While the huge phase of the YA novel series adaptations dominating the movie theater has moved on to the possible falling times of the Superhero era, we get a new Hunger Games film out of…
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Interviews with Colman Domingo and George C. Wolfe for Rustin + The Marvels, Scott Pilgrim, Saltburn, Poor Things, May December
It’s the SHERIN & MAE CAFE featuring Colman Domingo, George C. Wolfe, and a cameo from Julian. Along with the wildest movies we’ve seen in a while.
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MAY DECEMBER (FOR AWFJ)
In a review for AWFJ, Sherin explores the unsettling nature and ultimate effectiveness of May December
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The Killer
David Fincher returns with a killer flick about, well, a killer for hire who goes on the run when a job goes south.
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The Marvels – Sherin’s Review
With those opposing portrayals at war in our minds, we went to see the latest MCU team-up with cautious hope
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The Marvels – Julian’s Review
Well, it’s almost been five years since Captain Marvel hit theaters, and since then, she has made some appearances, most notably Avengers: Endgame. The first film made over 1 billion dollars at the global box…
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Priscilla
Writer/Director Sofia Coppola returns to her love of gilded cages with Priscilla, a biopic focused on the famed Priscilla Presley.
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Quiz Lady
Quiz Lady is a buddy comedy starring Awkwafina and Sandra Oh as two estranged sisters who must come together to help deal with their mother’s gambling debts. Sounds simple enough, right? The twist in this…
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Five Nights at Freddy’s
Five Nights at Freddy’s is the newest horror movie from Blumhouse and the latest video game adaptation in a year full of them. Based on a point-and-click survival horror game that built a huge following…
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The Holdovers
I really didn’t expect to get a holiday film in October. I guess I could complain about the extension of the holiday season into the warm parts of autumn and hating on pumpkin spice, but…
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The Burial
I must say it’s wild for me just how much streaming has changed the movie business and how we see what we see. While there is so much noise about concert films making a big…
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese is thinking about death. Speaking with GQ’s Zach Baron, the octogenarian director plainly stated, “Once you know that you gotta let go and you’re going to die, everything changes.” It’s a sobering thought…
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FOE
I didn’t know what I would be walking into when I sat down in my theater seat to see this new film from Amazon/MGM called FOE. See, after all these years reviewing films, I often…
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The Exorcist: Believer
It’s hard to try and make a new movie in a long-standing and beloved franchise. Especially when the first movie is a classic, and especially in the horror genre. Then you have something like The…
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Fair Play
Fair Play is a new film by Chloe Domont starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich. Fair Play is a throwback, a return to the erotic thriller genre, something that used to have films out all…
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar & Other Tales from Wes Anderson
Starting today, with The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Netflix will roll out a series of four shorts based on Dahl’s work, written, directed, and produced by Anderson. The others are The Swan, The Rat…