After watching, it’s not a shock to me to learn that “The Lost Daughter” is being considered for several Academy Awards. It’s visually alluring and captivating. Olivia Colman holds the audience’s attention almost totally alone, proving that it’s the action that makes a film, not constant dialogue.
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“Swan Song” is a dynamic roller coaster ride set in a time of robots and technology that do almost everything for us… except falling in love. The timeline is not long from our time now. The film is a romantic drama wrapped in science-fiction to give it more of an edge, which it succeeds in doing.
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“Spider-Man: No Way Home” is the next installment for Marvel’s web-slinger hero. It involves a fantastic mix of the current MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) characters — mixed in with a few villains and heroes from the past. When a mystical spell deviates to very wrong direction, it rips open a hole in the ‘multiverse’. That means anything can — and WILL – happen to our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man…
“Nightmare Alley” is based on a book from 1946. That book was made into a movie in 1947. For this movie, current director Guillermo del Toro is famous for film with supernatural and fantasy elements. But he has decided to make a new adaptation of the story with no ghosts or monsters. Except for the scariest Monster of them all – Man.
Written and Directed by: Goran Stolevski
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert, Carloto Cotta, Félix Maritaud, Sara Klimoska
Genres: Drama, Horror
Producers: Kristina Ceyton, Sam Jennings
“Being the Ricardos” is very aptly named because what director Aaron Sorkin’s latest movie does is take you through a somewhat scandalous week in the lives of this beloved couple, one you wouldn’t have expected to see. It’s not just about Lucy.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were once the toast of the town, the bells of the Ball, you might say.
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Bringing about the question of fairness authentically and genuinely that audiences can relate to, football fan and non-football fan alike, “National Champions” entertains us into thinking about more than just Saturday’s game. What of the athlete that gets us from the end of the baseball season to basketballs, allowing us not to miss either?
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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?
Like some, you may be asking why this classic was remade. Why would one of, irrefutably, the best directors of all time put his heart and soul into a remake when he could have given us an original film?! What on earth can Steven Spielberg give to or do for this film that wasn’t already done? I have been in your shoes. I wondered the exact same thing. Why touch “West Side Story?!” Makes no sense, right? I never saw the original, so I was coming from that angle, too. I thought, goodness gracious, another one?!
Then I saw it.
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.
