Review: The High Note
Drama? Check. Music? Check. Romance? Check. The High Note delivers all the required elements for a satisfying, mainstream-friendly chick flick, though it could have scored higher if not for a…
Quickie Review: The LoveBirds
Oh, LoveBirds, how cruel you are! Setting us up to believe we’re in for a fun, engaging romantic comedy, then plunging us into the depths of stupidity for a solid…
Quickie Review: The Wrong Missy
File this one under "lame escapism." I've taken to watching new films that are trending on Netflix since that's about as close as we can get right now to what's…
Review: Love Wedding Repeat
My "Cinema Clash" podcast partner Charlie asked if I had watched Love Wedding Repeat on Netflix yet, suggesting it was a "Hannah movie." In theory, he was right. It's a…
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COVID-19 Streaming List
Just in case you're caught at home wondering what you can do to pass the time, here's a list of films that, if you haven't seen, you should, and if…
Review: I Still Believe
I Still Believe is squarely aimed at the faith-based crowd and fans of popular Christian music singer Jeremy Camp. So if you fall into that particular demographic, then I do…
Review: EMMA.
I generally don’t go out of my way to see a period drama (especially one with a period in the title), and I never got around to reading much Jane…
Review: Ordinary Love
Ordinary Love offers a master class in quiet, meaningful, relatable and subtle performances from two veteran actors, Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) and Liam Neeson (Taken, Schindler’s List). They play Joan…
Review: Olympic Dreams
Olympic Dreams is an odd little indie meet-cute that takes elements of a romantic dramedy, sports movie and documentary, puts them in a blender, and spits out an uneven story…
Snapshot Review: The Photograph
The Photograph is a fairly straightforward romantic drama that is slow to develop and fails to rise above ho-hum despite its very likeable and very attractive leads - Issa Rae…
Review: Weathering with You
I'm not a big animation watcher, at least not of the big Disney/Pixar variety. But anime is a different story. Films like Spirited Away or Akira feel every bit as…
Review: Little Women
Louisa May Alcott's 1860s novel Little Women has been adapted to film more times that I can count, beginning in the silent era. So do we really need another one?…
Review: Last Christmas
Romantic comedies and dramas are few and far between these days, so when a decent one does come along, it’s generally worth celebrating, even if it's just so-so. Such is…
Review: Vita & Virginia
Vita Sackville-West was a British socialite and a popular writer in the 1920s. She was also fond of scandalizing the society in which she lived, especially with her female lovers.…
Review: Yesterday
Quick – try and recite the lyrics to Eleanor Rigby ("picks up the rice in the church...") Not so easy, is it? Imagine having to recount the music and lyrics…