Review: The Outpost
The Outpost is a war movie. War movies are hard to watch. They're especially hard to watch when you can't tell the characters apart - even with on-screen "lower thirds"…
Review: Force of Nature
Take Die Hard and add a $55 million art heist gone wrong, then set it in the middle of a Category 5 hurricane in Puerto Rico, and you've got Force…
Quickie Review: My Spy
My Spy happened to be the last screening I went to in early March, before the coronavirus upended all our lives and, consequently, Hollywood's theatrical release schedule. In retrospect, My…
Review: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
It had me at Pierce Brosnan and ABBA. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga doesn’t pretend to be anything more than it is – a campy slice of…
Arty Chick’s AFIDOCS 2020 Wrap-up
We’ve been going to AFIDOCS since 2014. It’s usually a great long weekend of documentaries and mixing with film lovers and filmmakers. This year because of COVID-19, it was a…
Review: Irresistible
Irresistible is far more easy to resist than one might hope, despite a strong cast, timely premise and the indelible imprint of former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart as the…
Review: The Letter
In this fascinating documentary from Kenya, Karisa a young man living in the big city of Mombasa travels back to his home village when he hears through Facebook that his…
Quickie Review: The Fight
The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has been around for a hundred years. Its mandate is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in…
Review: Babyteeth
In this wonderfully dark dramedy from down under, Milla (Eliza Scanlen - Little Women) is a cancer stricken 16-year-old who falls for free spirited drug dealer Moses (Toby Wallace) much…
Review: My Darling Vivian
My Darling Vivian is a love letter to Johnny Cash's first wife Vivian Liberto with whom he had four daughters and initially a great romance. Narrated mainly by those four…
Review: Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
You might think last year's Where's my Roy Cohn told us all we need to know about the man who spawned the current occupant of the White House. But Ivy…
Review: 7500
If the coronavirus isn’t enough to keep you grounded, perhaps this will do the trick! Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the young, soft-spoken American co-pilot of a commercial flight from Berlin to…
The Cinema Clash talks Shirley, You Don’t Nomi, Spelling the Dream, And We Go Green
It feels like films are streaming our way faster than we can possibly watch, especially when day jobs get in the way! So once again, I refer Chickflix readers to…
Quickie Review: Runner
Runner is one of those documentaries that explores a story you vaguely recall hearing about but aren’t quite sure when – in this case, the journey of Guor Mading Maker…
Quickie Review: Tommaso
I know I'm the Arty Chick, but this one is too arty for me. I'll admit from the get-go that I've never been a big fan of Abel Ferrara. He's…