Oscar Nominated Shorts 2021
The Academy Awards show will take place this year on Sunday, April 25th, much later in the year than usual after it was pushed back 2 months because of…
Review: Slalom
Competitive sports are hell on the body and the mind. Even more so when you're a teenager with no support system. In Slalom, Lyz (Noée Abita) is an ambitious and…
Review: Quo Vadis, Aida?
Talk about a film that's hard to watch! This Oscar nominee from Bosnia and Herzegovina tells the horrifying story of the days leading up to the 1995 massacre of 8,000+…
Review: TINA
To say that Tina Turner is a music icon is a huge understatement. She's the original Queen of rock & roll and a force of nature. I was too young…
Adaptation
Arty Chick
Award Winning
Chick Flick
Comedy
Crime
Date movie
Drama
Italian
Japanese
Romance
Special Feature
Thriller
Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 12
This week I chose a comedy thriller, a political thriller, a classic screwball comedy, a wartime romance, a storybook romance, a Japanese existential drama, and a loving ode to an…
Review: The Courier
This is another "based on true events" film. The story begins in 1960 as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev is threatening to bury the West. The CIA and MI6 are scrambling for…
Review: Dark Web: Cicada 3301
This cyber-comedy/thriller takes its premise from a very real internet mystery. According to Wikipedia: "Cicada 3301 is a nickname given to an organization that, on three occasions, has posted a…
Action/Adventure
Adaptation
Arty Chick
Award Winning
Comedy
Crime
Date movie
Documentary
Drama
Special Feature
Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 11
Most of this week’s films come from the 80s. There's a jewel heist, a race riot, a dystopian bounty hunter, an academia story, three murderers, a couple of divorces, and a…
Review: Keep an Eye Out
One of last year's most strangely entertaining films was Quentin Dupieux's Deerskin about a man's bloody obsession with a deerskin jacket. Dupieux is back this year with another black comedy, this…
Review: FTA
This fascinating documentary is a time capsule from 1971. It follows Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland and the rest of the theatrical troupe Free Theater Associates around America's Pacific army bases…
Adaptation
Arty Chick
Award Winning
Chick Flick
Comedy
Crime
Date movie
Foreign
Romance
South American
Spanish language
Special Feature
Thriller
Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 10
This week is heavy on movies about couples. They include rom-coms and complicated relationship stories, and the characters range from criminals to musicians to politicians, from kings to bakers. The…
Review: The Independents
There are no big stars in this musical dramedy. It's a total indie flick. And it's a lot of fun. It tells the tale of three singer/songwriters all struggling to…
Review: La Llorona
This political horror film takes its title from a Meso-American folkloric legend about the ghost of a woman who roams waterfront areas mourning her drowned children. In the film La…
Quickie Reviews: Glitch in the Matrix, Bliss
There is a lot of talk these days in the scientific world about the scary possibility that we are all living in a computer simulation and aren't actually real. I…