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+…
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: Nobody
Don’t mess with ‘nobody’. He’s got skills - in a John Wick meets Taken sort of way. Nobody stars Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul,” The Post, Nebraska) as Hutch Mansell,…
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…
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: 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 Review: The World To Come
Dreary. That's the life of the people who inhabit this film. It's 1859, somewhere in upstate New York, and a farmer and his wife, Abigail (Katherine Waterston, Fantastic Beasts, Steve…
Review: The Mauritanian
This drama based on Mohamedou Ould Slahi's NY Times best-selling memoir "Guantánamo Diary" tells the story of a man swept up in the US government's post-9/11 frenzy to find the perpetrators.…
Review: The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
There’s certainly no shortage of movies featuring a time loop or “temporal anomaly.” There’s Groundhog Day, of course, as well as 12 Dates of Christmas, Before I Fall, Edge of…
Action/Adventure
Adaptation
Arty Chick
Award Winning
Comedy
Drama
Female led films
Indie
Romance
Special Feature
Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 9
Week Nine of films that I remember fondly. It's amazing how many great films come to mind when I go down my cinematic memory lane. A lot of this week's…
Review: Judas and the Black Messiah
Judas and the Black Messiah is one of those movies you should watch, even if you don't really want to. It's another stark reminder of how the FBI operated under…
Review: Son of the South
"Not choosing sides is a choice," Rosa Parks (Sharonne Lanier) tells white college boy Bob Zellner (Lucas Till) when he talks to the civil rights icon a few years after…