Film Reviews
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Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny
BASICALLY… Indiana Jones is pulled into one final adventure, tied to an escapade in 1945 Germany, but finds that there’s an awful tension between holding on and letting go–and not much time to choose what…
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No Hard Feelings
Do you all remember going to the movie theater to see a comedy? I think I’ve said this before because there are so few comedies that I get to see in theaters, especially good ones…
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Sherin’s Takes on Tribeca 2023
Sherin covered the 2023 TRIBECA Film Festival for AWFJ. What did she think and what is her top pick?
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Elemental
I think Pixar is in a weird place right now. In a lot of ways, the pandemic has set them back, and I don’t know if Disney has done right by them lately. The rest…
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The Blackening
You know, for the longest time within horror, the only two Black people to survive were two legendary rappers, LL Cool J, and Ice Cube. Maybe their personas made those filmmakers and the viewers at…
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Flamin’ Hot
Who would’ve thought that in 2023 we’d get so many films about businesses creating successful products? Some feel these are glorified commercials, but I believe in this late-stage capitalism and ending hustle era, these stories…
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Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts
Before Sam, there was Noah–and the world is in danger unless Autobots and Maximals can work with humans against Scourge and an evil named Unicron.
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The Flash – Drew’s Review
An error in judgment sends Flash into a dark alternate world, where he must find Batman to help stop an alien invasion. But time is running out, even for the Fastest Man Alive… and NOTHING…
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The Flash – Julian’s Review
After almost so long, we have finally gotten The Flash movie in theaters. After nine seasons of television, a direct to disc Animated film, and even a Lego movie. The film starring Ezra Miller as…
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The Flash – Sherin’s Review
If you’re here, I know you’re going to see The Flash. As comic books fans, that’s what we do. We’re magnetized to this stuff. So I’ll keep my review brief.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse -Julian’s Review
So five years after changing how American Feature Animation the cinematic animated adventures of Miles Morales, Spider-Man. This film taking place almost a year and a half from the end of the last film, sees…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Sherin’s Review
Miles, Gwen, and the rest of us get sent hurtling across the Spider-Verse.
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The Little Mermaid (2023) Renee’s Review
A mermaid exchanges her fins for legs to pursue true love on dry land…but after giving up her voice to an evil Sea Witch, she finds wooing the object of her affections difficult.
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The Little Mermaid (2023) – Julian’s Review
I was pretty down on the idea of this film from the start. See, I’ve gotten significantly diminishing returns from these live-action remakes of the Disney Classics that we’ve gotten for more than a decade.…
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You Hurt My Feelings – Julian’s Review
You Hurt My Feelings was a pretty interesting observational comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed, Owen Teague, and Jeannie Berlin. This story is rather intimate, with Beth (Louis-Dreyfus) and Don (Menzies)…
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About My Father Review
Sebastian Maniscalco stars in and co-writes this film based partially on his real life and his relationship with his father. In About My Father, Sebastian plays a version of himself: a boutique hotel manager who’s…
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You Hurt My Feelings
This movie brought me back to the movies I watched growing up; where the stakes were low but the relationships meant everything (and you could laugh at trouble).
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The Little Mermaid (2023)
Following the structure of the live-action princess adaptations before it, The 2023 Little Mermaid mirrors the animated one but with updates that give the girl more agency and it adds a few new songs.
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White Men Can’t Jump (2023)
For many reasons, I questioned the idea of remaking a classic 90s film like White Men Can’t Jump. Much like the other 90s Hip Hop film remake this year, House Party, some of the issues…
