LICORICE PIZZA is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. Read more
This is a pleasant tale of love and unselfishness told through the glaring lights of the field where dreams are made. Even if you don’t know who Kurt Warner is or aren’t a big fan of football, you’ll enjoy this movie because it leaves a good impression on its audience. The way “American Underdog” is laid out is moving and, in the end, leaves you with a warm feeling inside. Not half bad for a tale about a guy throwing around the pigskin, wouldn’t you agree? You will.
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Thought to have been performed as far back as 1606, Oscar-Winning director Joel Coen (Fargo, Inside Llweyn Davis, No Country for Old Men), now gives us his interpretation of the Shakespeare classic “Macbeth.” Knowing the films he has been a part of, it won’t be a true revelation that this, too, is spectacular. It’s exquisite.
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Director Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project), who wrote “Red Rocket” with Chris Bergoch, continues to impress. For his 2015 indie film “Tangerine,” he and Bergoch gave us an in-depth story of the life of sex workers who enjoy their orange juice and donuts. As well as being tumultuous, its slant turned out to be rather raw and captivating.
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We start the film when the main character, J.R., is relatively young. Then, we flash forward and back. He and his mom are moving back in with her parents at the start. Used to it only being him and his mom, you see how close they are, yet he tells her that he “likes having people” in his life now.
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NEW TRAILER FOR “DEATH ON THE NILE,”
DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND FEATURING
AN ALL-STAR ENSEMBLE CAST OF SUSPECTS, NOW AVAILABLE
Director/Writer: Robert Eggers
Co-Writer: Sjón
Producers: Lars Knudsen, Mark Huffman, New Regency
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Ethan
Hawke, Björk, and Willem Dafoe
Run Time: 2h 20min
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
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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