Category: Film Reviews

The Empire Strikes Back Rating Director Irvin Kershner Screenplay Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas Length 2h 04m Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Bulloch, James Earl Jones (uncredited) MPAA Rating PG Review Three years after…

Star Wars Rating Director George Lucas Screenplay George Lucas Length 2h 01m Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Phil Brown, Shelagh Fraser, James Earl Jones (uncredited) MPAA Rating PG Review Ascetic monks and hermits. These are probably the only two types of…

American Fiction Rating Director Cord Jefferson Screenplay Cord Jefferson Length 1h 57m Starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Raymond Anthony Thomas, Okieriete Onaodowan MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review There is no end of themes…

Strange Way of Life (Short Film) Rating Director Pedro Almodóvar Screenplay Pedro Almodóvar Length 31m Starring Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, Pedro Casablanc, Manu Ríos, George Steane, José Condessa, Jason Fernández, Sara Sálamo, Oihana Cueto, Daniela Medina MPAA Rating R Review Foreign cinema often gave queer topics and queer stories more nuanced representation than American cinema.…

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Rating Director Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson Screenplay Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dave Callaham Length 2h 20m Starring Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Jake Johnson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Schwartzman, Issa Rae, Daniel Kaluuya, Karan Soni, Shea Whigham, Greta Lee, Mahershala Ali, Amandla Stenberg,…

Trolls Band Together Rating Director Walt Dohrn Screenplay Elizabeth Tippet, Kim Caramele, Lloyd Taylor Length 1h 31m Starring Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Kenan Thompson, Walt Dohrn, Anderson .Paak, Ron Funches, Kunal Nayyar, David Fynn, Kevin Michael Richardson, Eric Andre, Daveed Diggs, Kid Cudi, Troye Sivan, Camila Cabello, Zosia Mamet, Amy Schumer, Andrew Rannells, Christopher Mintz-Plasse,…

Godzilla Minus One Rating Director Takashi Yamakazi Screenplay Takashi Yamakazi Length 2h 04m Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Sae Nagatani, Mio Tanaka, Yuya Endo MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here Review One year shy of its 70th anniversary, Godzilla makes a return to the…

2023 Oscar-Nominated Shorts These short films are available in a program from Shorts.TV, releasing theatrically. Rating Director Tal Kantor (Letter to a Pig); Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess (Ninety-Five Senses); Yegane Moghaddam (Our Uniform); Stéphanie Clément (Pachyderme); Dave Mullins (War Is Over); Misan Harriman (After); Vincent René-Lortie (Invincible); Lasse Lyskjær Noer (Knight of Fortune); Nazrin Choudhury…

All of Us Strangers Rating Director Andrew Haigh Screenplay Andrew Haigh Length 1h 45m Starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Carter John Grout, Jamie Bell, Claire Foy MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review Grief can be a powerful emotion that lingers long after the loss that spawned it. All of Us Strangers explores how…

Poor Things Rating Director Yorgos Lanthimos Screenplay Tony McNamara Length 2h 21m Starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Kathryn Hunter, Jerrod Carmichael, Hanna Schygulla, Margaret Qualley, Vicki Pepperdine MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review Life is strange and then there’s Poor Things. Set in a steampunk world of…

The Boy and the Heron Rating Director Hayao Miyazaki Screenplay Hayao Miyazaki Length 2h 04m Starring Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kou Shibasaki, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Takuya Kimura MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here Review Japanese culture and spiritually have always provided a potent well from which Hayao Miyazaki draws his filmic inspiration. The Boy…

Oppenheimer Rating Director Christopher Nolan Screenplay Christopher Nolan Length 3h 00m Starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Benny Safdie, Jason Clarke, Dylan Arnold, Tom Conti, James D’Arcy, David Dastmalchian, Dane DeHaan, Tony Goldwyn, Jefferson Hall, David Krumholtz, Matthew Modine,…

The Color Purple Rating Director Blitz Bazawaule Screenplay Marcus Gardley (Musical: Marsha Norman; Novel: Alice Walker) Length 2h 20m Starring Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, Halle Bailey, Ciara, Gabriella Wilson ‘H.E.R.’, David Alan Grier, Deon Cole, Jon Batiste, Louis Gossett Jr. MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview…

The Holdovers Rating Director Alexander Payne Screenplay David Hemingson Length 2h 13m Starring Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Michael Provost, Andrew Garman, Naheem Garcia MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here

The Marvels Rating Director Nia DaCosta Screenplay Nia DaCosta, Megan McDonnell, Elissa Karasik Length 1h 45m Starring Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Samuel L. Jackson, Zawe Ashton, Gary Lewis, Seo-Jun Park, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Saagar Shaikh, Leila Farzad, Abraham Popoola, Daniel Ings MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here