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Kajillionaire
KAJILLIONAIRE A Grifter family: A family that engages in petty or small-scale swindling The Breast Crawl Fear of earthquakes and flying A limping Debra Winger Unrecognizable Evan Rachel Woods Meeting Melanie (Gina Rodriquez) on a plane 5 PM weeping walls You named your daughter Old Dolio? Pretending to act like a typical family while the…
Blue Miracle
BLUE MIRACLE It is June 2021, and everyone’s talking about In the Heights. Did you see In the Heights? In the Heights is excellent; you have to watch In The Heights. I chose a different Latino movie, Blue Miracle. Blue Miracle is a wholesome drama that brings together blue marlin sports fishing in Cabo San…
The White Tiger
THE WHITE TIGER The White Tiger is a rags-to-riches story of a Low Caste Indian boy. The main protagonist Balram (Adarsh Gourav) tells the story as he writes an email to the Chinese Premier explaining his life. Balram wants to show by his example that India is full of Entrepreneurs that can help China. “India…
In the Shadow of the Moon
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON In the Shadow of the Moon, a sci-fi thriller is one of the thousands of good films hidden deep within Netflix. I only found it because I wanted to time travel and searched Google for “movies about time travel.” In the Shadow of the Moon is a detective story…
- 2019
- Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Shadow in the Cloud
SHADOW IN THE CLOUD Shadow in the Cloud, an action-horror film on Hulu, is a tremendous opportunity for Chloë Grace Moretz, and she is powerful in the role. Most of the film is a one-woman show with Chloe Grace Moretz as Officer Maude Garrett in the bottom turret (Sperry) of a B-17 bomber flying over…
Army of the Dead
ARMY OF THE DEAD Zombie movies are not going away. Zack Snyder co-wrote, directed, filmed, and produced Army of the Dead, Netflix’s newest zombie heist film. Army of the Dead creates a new Alpha zombie species that can rule lesser zombies (Shamblers), plot attacks, have a Queen, and impregnate the Queen. Get ready for more…
Spontaneous
SPONTANEOUS Spontaneous is a teen horror-comedy film, but I think it is more of a coming-of-age and romance film occurring under a unique set of circumstances. Spontaneous is darkly funny and could have been even more poignant but went for sarcasm and profanity at the end. The story originates from a 2016 Young Adult (YA)…
Tenet
TENET Kudos to Tenet, the sci-fi action film by Christopher Nolan, for being one of the only movies released to theaters during the lockdown summer of 2020. That was probably a good decision since there was no competition in the theaters, so Tenet got a lot of press. More press than it would have received…
- 2020
- Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
I’m Your Woman
I’M YOUR WOMAN I do not like the title (I never would have watched I’m Your Woman unless my wife made me asked to watch it). I did not like the first half; it is slow, with baby Harry crying all the time and many unknowns. But the second half makes it worth watching (my…
Blindspotting
BLINDSPOTTING Blindspotting is a 2018 comedy-drama buddy film – heavier on the drama – set in the gentrifying parts of Oakland, California. Daveed Diggs (Hamilton, Snowpiercer TV series) and Rafael Casal (Good Lord Bird) wrote, produced, and starred in Blindspotting, their first film taking ten years to write. This 2018 film is more relevant today…
SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival)
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 – SIFF Movies seen and commented on this year at SIFF. Beans – 5 Stars BUB – At least it runs only 10 minutes East of the Mountains – 4 Stars Sing Along If You Know The Words – 2.5 Stars All Sorts – 3 Stars The Other Morgan –…
- 2026
- Feature & Short Films
Godzilla vs. Kong
GODZILLA VS. KONG In the monster film Godzilla vs. Kong, two apex titans, Godzilla and King Kong battle, at times, for the sake of fighting. This is the fourth Godzilla film produced entirely by a Hollywood studio. Do you believe there are thirty-six films in the Godzilla franchise over the past 68 years – since…
- 2021
- Action, Science Fiction
News of the World
NEWS OF THE WORLD The Western drama News of the Day is sometimes slow, and sometimes an intense story about discovery and survival. However, it includes the warmest and happiest ending I have seen this year. Tom Hanks (Greyhound, Sleepless in Seattle) is superb as Captain Jefferson Lyle Kidd traveling through 1870 Texas reading the…
Mank
MANK You open the Netflix app, and most movies are not made for someone like me, a fully developed and functioning, cynical adult who watches films. Netflix caters to teenagers through thirty-somethings. Content contains loads of coming-of-age, young romance, teenage angst, and British films. I watch a lot of it, enjoy it, but it doesn’t…
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
BLACK ART: IN THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT The Black artists and museum curators made it evident in the documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light – white museum curators cannot correctly put on a valid showing of black art. Also made evident in the film – white critics should not review black art. Whites…
- 2021
- Documentary