Category: Reviews

Limited theatrical release on December 3, 2021
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video on December 10, 2021.

“Encounter” has a premise that starts out as a cosmic invasion of micro-bugs from space. But it soon turns into a journey of a father and his two young boys on a trip into the unknown. The main ‘Narrator’ might turn out to be unreliable. So, will this road trip be a rescue of his kids from the infestation of micro-aliens? Or is there a different destination for the group? Is this a road to revenge?

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Limited theatrical run starting December 3, 2021

Available on Amazon Prime beginning December 10, 2021

“Wolf” is a movie that thinks it will run with the Pack. It aspires to be King of the Jungle (or Forest). But it turns out to be more of an Odd Duck. The ideas are played out in a super serious manner. There is an undercurrent of metaphor that is way too obvious. When a person wants to identify as something else, that is out of the ‘norm’. So, there is a place that ‘teaches’ a person (who identifies as an animal) to return to the normal social standard.

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The “Belfast” storyline is deeply personal for writer/director Kenneth Branagh because what you see play out in the film is what Branagh recalls seeing in his neighborhood when he was growing up. The 1960s in Northern Ireland was a time of great tumult between the Catholics and the Protestants. Here, we see the struggle your everyday family would have had to not only survive the civil war brewing in their neighborhoods but, at the same time, to do the right thing for their family.​
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