Film Reviews
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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…
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Fast x Review by Julian Lytle
Vin Diesel can never fail me with his Family. Time and again for the last twenty-two years, with all the people coming and going, and as the stakes and feats get larger and larger, I’m…
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Fast X Review by Sherin Nicole
Once again it’s on. Fuel up for more of the ferocious fantasy and fantastical physics of The Fast and Furious franchise with Sherin’s review of Fast X
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Blackberry
So here we are in 2023 with our second business biopic essentially with Blackberry directed by Matt Johnson and starring Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton. This movie is I guess a comedy-drama but it mostly…
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Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3
In a race against the clock, The Guardians of the Galaxy come up against Rocket Raccoon’s creator after he tries to “reacquire” his creation and ends up gravely injuring Rocket instead.
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The Tuba Thieves
you get immersed in a world of visions and sounds, supported by a casual investigation of the theft of tubas from schools in California and framed around a relationship between a woman and her partner…
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Are you there God? It’s me Margaret.
A young girl traverses the pitfalls of adolescence. When Margaret returns from camp, her whole life is turned upside down.
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Beau is Afraid
Man, sometimes you see a film, and it just screams – A. R. T. and that is what we have here with Ari Aster’s new film Beau is Afraid.
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Chevalier
So the story of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, is one that I feel a lot of Black people in the United States have no clue about.
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The Covenant
Guy Ritchie’s direction genius is on full display — everything from the score (or lack thereof), to the casting, to the stunning wide shots, to the intense close-ups was a study in perfection. He deserves…
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Evil Dead Rise
If you are here for praise for the nostalgia of the Evil Dead franchise and the Necroverse—I’m really hoping that sticks—stop reading now.
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Showing Up
This intimate and quirky art world comedy won’t make you burst out laughing, but it is pretty hilarious.
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Renfield
Renfield takes the Dracula story and puts the focus on his familiar/servant Renfield as in the modern times, is no longer enjoying his servant life under the abusive Count Dracula.
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Renfield
For as long as we’ve known the legend of Dracula there has been a Renfield. The bug eating toady who serves as the blood-drinker’s familiar. Similar to the writers of Grendel and Wicked before him,…
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Suzume – Julian’s Review
Suzume is a wonderfully told story about a teenage girl named Suzume. After seeing a beautiful young man, she ends up on an adventure to save Japan by quelling restless spirits that cause disasters around the…
