Film Reviews
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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…
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Suzume – Sherin’s Take
From Makoto Shinkai (writer/director of Your Name), the new anime feature Suzume questions the weight of memory, how it reshapes us, and the ways it stagnates.
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Super Mario Bros.
This movie is great—for everyone—the kids are going to love the cute story, the funny jokes, and the action, and the adults are going to love everything else.
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Chevalier
Applause to director Stephen Williams and writer Stefani Robinson for a painterly historical biopic, that presents the Chevalier with the drama, romantic entanglements, and rebellious swagger of the popstar he might have been.
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Praise This
This latest Will Packer comedy, directed by Tina Gordon, gives Chloe Bailey the chance to take lead as the sassy Sam, a LA singer-songwriter who doesn’t know when to pump her brakes.
