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Christmas Cottage: Brief Review
Christmas Cottage, directed by Michael Campus (2008), is a moving film about a young artist and his brother bringing together their small town while trying to financially upright their mother over the holiday break from college. It is apparently a true story based on the life of Thomas Kincaid. I can’t say how true it is butContinue reading “Christmas Cottage: Brief Review”
Beauty and the Beast (2017): Brief Review
Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon (2017), is retelling of the animated Disney film based on the French fairytale of the same name. I have this faint remembrance of everyone being a bit peeved about the singing and the fact that Disney made a live-action version without much difference from the animated version which madeContinue reading “Beauty and the Beast (2017): Brief Review”
Hurricane Streets: Brief Review
Hurricane Streets, directed by Morgan J. Freeman (1997), is a film that looks into the lives of a group of children in their mid-teen years while living in New York City. The story is mainly focused on Marcus, what is going on in his life, and how he deals with things as they come up. Marcus isContinue reading “Hurricane Streets: Brief Review”
Sound of Metal: Brief Review
Sound of Metal, directed by Darius Marder (2019), is a film about a drummer that loses his hearing suddenly and he learns how to cope through a rehab center so that he doesn’t end up using drugs while all this is happening. It’s a super interesting story. What would a person do when they’re on the cuspContinue reading “Sound of Metal: Brief Review”
Stuck in Love: Brief Review
Stuck in Love, directed by Josh Boone (2012), is a film about a family dealing with divorce and its aftermath. A father, who happens to be a successful writer, dwells on his divorce. He offers constant encouragement towards his children to write and become successful writers themselves, which they do at the end. It all ends withContinue reading “Stuck in Love: Brief Review”
Speedway Junky: Brief Review
Speedway Junky, directed by Nickolas Perry (1999), is a film about a boy who wants to be a Nascar driver but meets a group of kids whoring, stealing, and selling drugs to survive in the city of Las Vegas. It’s an interesting story that while being somewhat realistic is a bit optimistic towards its lead. He somewhatContinue reading “Speedway Junky: Brief Review”
Rudderless: Brief Review
Rudderless, directed by William H. Macy (2014), is a film about a father trying to cope with the fact that his son was a university shooter than murdered a handful of people and really gets to know some of his thoughts through his music which leads him to working with another young man. This film has aContinue reading “Rudderless: Brief Review”
Free Willy (Escape from Pirate’s Cove): Brief Review
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove, directed by Will Geiger (2010), is a film about a girl, a young orca that gets stuck in a shallow pool after a storm, and the girl trying to free the orca from her grandfathers “theme park” called Pirate’s Cove. It’s a cheap reimagining of the original Free Willy. Far lessContinue reading “Free Willy (Escape from Pirate’s Cove): Brief Review”
The Social Network: Brief Review
The Social Network, directed by David Fincher (2010), is a film about the chaotic origin story of Facebook. From this version of events, Zuckerberg had skill when he persisted but otherwise arrived in front of him in a perfect storm and he rarely turned down an opportunity. He certainly had tech smarts but was socially dumb whichContinue reading “The Social Network: Brief Review”
Blackbird (2012): Brief Review
Blackbird, directed by Jason Buxton (2012), is a film about a teenage boy who is accused and successfully charged with conspiring to commit a school massacre. This film is Canadian and I’m not entirely sure if they have went through a period of satanic panic but this film felt very much like that. The boy listens toContinue reading “Blackbird (2012): Brief Review”
Free Willy 3: Brief Review
Free Willy 3: The Rescue, directed by Sam Pillsbury (1997), is a film that continues on with Jesse, his relationship with Willy, and how he saves Willy once again. This go around Jesse is saving Willy and his pod from whale poachers with the help of the captain of the poacher’s boat, Botany Bay, son, Max. TheContinue reading “Free Willy 3: Brief Review”
Voice from the Stone: Brief Review
Voice from the Stone, directed by Eric D. Howell (2017), is a film about a boy who traumatically lost his mother and his father hires a caretaker to try to improve his dourer disposition. The way this story is laid out and presented is super smart. It ends as it begins and you never expect it. TheContinue reading “Voice from the Stone: Brief Review”
Wendy (2020): Brief Review
Wendy, directed by Benh Zeitlin (2020), is another retelling of the Peter Pan story in a somewhat modern Southern origin and a more basic Caribbean Neverland. The mechanics are simple and easy to follow for the most part. It’s an imaginative take on the story that keeps you on your toes. It feels more tangible. I couldContinue reading “Wendy (2020): Brief Review”
Free Willy 2: Brief Review
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, directed by Dwight H. Little (1995), is a film that continues on from the first installment, Free Willy, and the young man is a little older, has gained closure about his mother, found a brother he didn’t know he had, and saves Willy once again. They find Willy in wild whichContinue reading “Free Willy 2: Brief Review”
Not Since You: Brief Review
Not Since You, directed by Jeff Stephenson (2009), is a film about a man in his early thirties going to a wedding and reconnecting with his college friends and ex-girlfriend. This is a very bland and boring film. You get the feeling watching this film like you would going to a job just because you need theContinue reading “Not Since You: Brief Review”
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013): Brief Review
The Wolf of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese (2013), is a film about a young man who is determined to be successful, is able to achieve his dreams, and then tear them all down with his own hands. This film was mildly informative, inspiring in certain aspects, and wholly entertaining. Everything came together and the finalContinue reading “The Wolf of Wall Street (2013): Brief Review”
Free Willy: Brief Review
Free Willy, directed by Simon Wincer (1993), is a film about a young misguided boy who befriends an orca by the name of Willy. The story is a little more dirty and a lot less wholesome than I remember. The acting was good enough. I can’t say if the Native American portions are disrespectful or not butContinue reading “Free Willy: Brief Review”
7 Days in Hell: Brief Review
7 Days in Hell, directed by Jake Szymanski (2015), is a film two professional tennis players that play a death match. It is without a doubt one of the dumbest mockumentaries I have watched so far but I did chuckle here and there. There wasn’t a lot of substance to this film. There isn’t really anything toContinue reading “7 Days in Hell: Brief Review”
Explorers: Brief Review
Explorers, directed by Joe Dante (1985), is a film about three kids making contact with an alien species that take them into space to meet the humans they’ve been watching for some time through television, radio, and films. This is a fun and playful 80s family film. You have all the tones and humor of the TheContinue reading “Explorers: Brief Review”
Call Me By Your Name: Brief Review
Call Me By Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino (2017), is a film about a teenager who is living with his family in Italy and his father has a student stay at their house during the summer. The young man likes the student, who is a good amount older than him, tries to convey his feelings, andContinue reading “Call Me By Your Name: Brief Review”
Silent Hill Revelation: Brief Review
Silent Hill: Revelation, directed by M. J. Bassett (2012), is a continuation of the Silent Hill film series based on the video game series. The story picks up years later with Sharon and her adoptive father on the run from a group of people trying to take Sharon back to Silent Hill and the government because theContinue reading “Silent Hill Revelation: Brief Review”
Desert Blue: Brief Review
Desert Blue, directed by Morgan J. Freeman (1998), is a film about a small desert town that is quarantined because of a toxic spillage from a truck carrying an ingredient for a beverage company that took the diverted water heading from the Rockies into California. The film mainly focuses on Blue a boy from the town tryingContinue reading “Desert Blue: Brief Review”
Hot Summer Nights: Brief Review
Hot Summer Nights, directed by Elijah Bynum (2017), is a film about some young adults making major decisions during the coarse of one summer in Cape Cod during the early 90’s that will change their lives forever. The story, the characters, the way the film was shot, the acting, all of it, was absolutely fantastic. Grief andContinue reading “Hot Summer Nights: Brief Review”
The Vow: Cast, Crew, and Script
In this portion of the film breakdown of The Vow we will be going over the cast, crew, and the script in a general overlook and what they add to the film itself. Cast Channing Tatum In the year that The Vow was released, 2012, he was named Sexiest Man Alive by People’s Magazine. WhichContinue reading “The Vow: Cast, Crew, and Script”
The Vow: Brief Review
The Vow, directed by Michael Sucsy (2012), is a film about a woman that deals with memory lose after a car accident which leaves her and her husband to rediscover each other as people and as partners. With these romantic dramas I usually break a few tears at the overwhelmingly sensitive parts, especially with Rachel McAdams, butContinue reading “The Vow: Brief Review”
Silent Hill: Brief Review
Silent Hill, directed by Christophe Gans (2006), is a film about the horrors that ensue due to a child murder gone wrong. It’s an interesting film based on the games from the franchise of the same name. The play on horror dimensions, would be murderers plots and justification, and a victims pursuit of pursuing her tormentors isContinue reading “Silent Hill: Brief Review”
The Three Musketeers (2011): Brief Review
The Three Musketeers, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson (2011), is another film about the Three Musketeers. It’s one of those films that is redone every few years or so by major film studios, a lot smaller ones, and everyone in between. It’s based on the classic novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas. It’s beenContinue reading “The Three Musketeers (2011): Brief Review”
The Prom: Brief Review
The Prom, directed by Ryan Murphy (2020), is a film about high school lesbian who is forced out of her school prom until the broadway gang come to help her out to improve their public image. First, get rid of James Corden, replace with one of the many actual gay men that can do a musical, andContinue reading “The Prom: Brief Review”
Valley Girl: Brief Review
Valley Girl, directed by Rachel Goldenberg (2020), is a film about a high school girl who meets a guy at the beach and her life is turned upside down. This film is a musical set in Los Angeles in the 80’s and present time. The female is telling her daughter about her past to help her daughterContinue reading “Valley Girl: Brief Review”
Happiest Season: Brief Review
Happiest Season, directed by Clea DuVall (2020), is a film about a lesbian inviting her girlfriend to Christmas but she’s not out to her family. It’s about time that there was a fun LGBTQ+ Christmas film out there that was overall fairly well done. The only part that really took away from the experience is that itContinue reading “Happiest Season: Brief Review”
Tempted: Brief Review
Tempted, directed by Maggie Greenwald (2003), is a film about a woman mainly dealing with the lose of her surrogate mother to cancer. The lose of the woman who raised her just serves as a catalyst to her going to Hawaii and meeting her birth mother through an extended stay. While she’s in Hawaii she tries toContinue reading “Tempted: Brief Review”
MegaFault: Brief Review
MegaFault, directed by David Michael Latt (2009), is a film about a super earthquake, the aftermath of the quakes, and the woman tasked with overseeing the minimizing the damage. The sacrifice of other characters while the main character and her family constantly escape danger with no consequences betrays the integrity of the direness of the situation. TheContinue reading “MegaFault: Brief Review”
After Parkland: Brief Review
After Parkland, directed by Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi (2019), is a film about the aftermath of the Parkland, FL school shooting incident. Children and adults alike protesting for gun control as a substitute for those that they lost, to cope with their trauma, and to do anything they can to help avoid new instances of similarContinue reading “After Parkland: Brief Review”
Song of Parkland: Brief Review
Song of Parkland, directed by Amy Schatz (2019), is a short film about the drama class survivors of the Parkland, FL school shooting incident. They deal with their feelings and trauma about their experience through doing a school play. It shows their perseverance and love for each other. They are all celebrated by what they accomplish. WhichContinue reading “Song of Parkland: Brief Review”
After Neverland: Brief Review
After Neverland, hosted by Oprah Winfrey (2019), is a unrehearsed conversation with the survivors about the alleged sexual abuse inflicted upon them by Michael Jackson. It was very inciteful to have a few professionals look into the experience that the two survivors this special is focused on and state what usually happens in similar abuse cases. ItContinue reading “After Neverland: Brief Review”
Leaving Neverland: Brief Review
Leaving Neverland, directed by Dan Reed (2019), is a limited documentary series about the alleged sexual abuse inflicted upon young men by Michael Jackson as told by two survivors who are now old enough to speak out properly. If it’s true or not, that’s not the point. The point is that every time you see this typeContinue reading “Leaving Neverland: Brief Review”
The Heavenly Kid: Brief Review
The Heavenly Kid, directed by Cary Medoway (1985), is a film about a young man, his journey through the afterlife, and the help he gives another young man while working towards getting into heaven. This film was pretty silly and cheesy but enjoyable. I liked all the little twists and turns this story takes. The fantasy elementsContinue reading “The Heavenly Kid: Brief Review”
Skating to New York: Brief Review
Skating to New York, directed by Charles Minsky (2013), is a film about the journey of a young man, with a group of his friends, skating across Lake Ontario. It is a light stakes adventure that offers some mishaps and conflict but nothing below the surface. It mainly focuses on the life of one boy, howContinue reading “Skating to New York: Brief Review”
I Feel Pretty: Brief Review
I Feel Pretty, directed by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (2018), is a film about how a young woman with head trauma gains a high level of confidence and the result of it is that she is able to get everything she believes she wants in life. This film is a thought experiment if one day youContinue reading “I Feel Pretty: Brief Review”
Twice Born: Brief Review
Twice Born, directed by Sergio Castellitto (2012), is a film about a couple living in a war to support their friends and gain a child but not all survive the war. Wars disrupt and erase generations of people. Thinkers, innovators, entertainers, mothers, brothers, etc. All gone in one long moment that lasts years. War is a twistedContinue reading “Twice Born: Brief Review”
The Ramen Girl: Brief Review
The Ramen Girl, directed by Robert Allan Ackerman (2008), is a film about how a young woman finds her true passion in cooking ramen. This film starts off like many about women, focused on her relationship with a man. However, the relationship quickly folds in on itself and her story shifts towards the ramen shop down theContinue reading “The Ramen Girl: Brief Review”
Honeyboy (1982): Brief Review
Honeyboy, directed by John Berry (1982), is a film about a man trying to rise as a professional boxer and dabbles in love along the way. The story is pretty simple on this one. He wants to be a big time professional boxer with his eyes set on beating Tiger Maddox, the reigning champion of the division.Continue reading “Honeyboy (1982): Brief Review”
Summer Catch: Brief Review
Summer Catch, directed by Mike Tollin (2001), is a film about love and baseball in a young mans life. There is a linear surface level story. You never once really think that he’s not going to get the girl or that he’s not going to get the opportunity or the job. So, it’s not really a surpriseContinue reading “Summer Catch: Brief Review”
House Arrest: Brief Review
House Arrest, directed by Harry Winer (1996), is a film about a couple of kids, and a few additional kids later on, wanting to help their parents deal with their relationship problems but their plan ended up getting out of hand. It’s a fun concept from the about how children would handle themselves if their parents weren’tContinue reading “House Arrest: Brief Review”
Black Gold: Brief Review
Black Gold, or otherwise known as Day of the Falcon, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (2011), is a film about two warring leaders, a Sultan and Emir, and their dispute about land then oil. It is a story about how Americans first caused disruptions over oil from an Arab perspective told by European writers and director. So,Continue reading “Black Gold: Brief Review”
Peddle the World: Brief Review
Peddle the World, directed by and starring Felix Starck (2014), is a film about biking across the world. He makes an amateur attempt at traveling the world by bike while documenting his adventure. However, it’s less about his adversities, adventure, and more about the joys he found, the people he invited to join him, orContinue reading “Peddle the World: Brief Review”
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