Review: H is for Happiness
Some weeks are more crowded than others with viewing options so H is for Happiness almost escaped my radar. Don’t let that happen to you! The synopsis – and my…
Quickie Review: Killed My Wife
In this Korean thriller, a man wakes up from a drunken night. His clothes are covered in blood and he has no memory of how they got that way. But…
Review: All Together Now
We must be in the final throes of summer, with yet another teen drama based on a popular Young Adult (YA) book. Netflix brings us All Together Now, a sometimes…
Quickie Review: Words on Bathroom Walls
Words on Bathroom Walls is the latest in a string of films adapted from popular novels - YA and otherwise. But as far as I can tell, it's only being…
Review: Chemical Hearts
Chemical Hearts doesn't quite fit the mold of a typical teenage romantic drama. Sure, there's plenty of teen drama and teen angst and teen heartbreak. But there's also an extra…
Review: The Burnt Orange Heresy
The Burnt Orange Heresy is an ‘arty’ film, in more than ways than one. It drew me in early on, meandered ever so slowly in the middle, then came back…
Review: Radioactive
Who coined the term "radioactivity"? Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes? What husband and wife duo…
Mini-Review: Dirt Music
Good actors in gorgeous settings without a cohesive story does not add up to a great movie. In this rom-dram from down under, Georgie (Kelly Macdonald - No Country for…
Quickie review: The Tobacconist
In this coming-of-age story, set mostly in Vienna just as the Nazis are rising, 17-year-old Franz (Simon Morzé) arrives from the countryside to work at a tobacco shop owned by…
Action/Adventure
Adaptation
Drama
Female led films
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Netflix Original
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Review: The Old Guard
In the mood for a superhero action movie? Historical fiction? A supernatural flick? A war drama? Sci-fi/fantasy? A message movie? A hint of romance? A high-octane, double-dose of girl power?…
Review: Hamilton
Let's be real. Hamilton is critic-proof. Everyone I know who desperately wanted to see it has, by now, seen the filmed version of the hit Broadway musical at least once…
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: 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: How to Build a Girl
In this engaging coming-of-age flick, Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein - Booksmart, Ladybird) is a nerdy teenager living on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England in 1993. Her Dad's a ne'er-do-well…