Lance Hool’s new drama based on an inspirational true story looks at the intersection of two couples over different time periods. 2 Hearts draws from the novel All My Tomorrows and features romantic interludes of Chris (Jacob Flordi) and Sam (Tiera Skorbye). As well as an older couple Jorge (Adam Canto) and Leslie (Aussie actress […]
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Yellow Rose
A timely, affecting entry from Filipino-American Dane Paragas makes a fine companion to the recent Wild Rose which starred Jesse Buckley. Here, in Yellow Rose, Eva Noblezada is an absorbing 17-year-old Rose Garcia having those country-music aspirations in trying to leave the seediness of Lubbock, Tx for a scene of its capital, Austin. Filpina Rose […]
Spontaneous
A combustible teen film has many elements to it, including comedy, horror, and romance, as well as coming-of-age. In the hands of writer/director Brian Duffield the blend of satire and drama has a thoughtful appeal. When a pre-calculus classroom involves shocking student detonation in Spontaneous early on, the angst is on to a different level […]
On the Rocks
A breezy, often witty but unsubstantial analog to her Somewhere and an ode to Manhattan even with a Mexican interlude is Sofia Coppola’s semi-autobiographical new dramedy. Her double-entendre of a film On The Rocks might also appear to be like her Tokyo-based Lost in Translation were Bill Murray’s celebrity was in a mid-life crisis while […]
Greenland
Another cinematic casualty of 2020 is this new occasionally striking, though cliched disaster film starring Gerald Butler. Greenland is the second collaboration between Butler and helmsman Ric Roman Waugh after Angel Has Fallen that may not be seen as it deserves to be in spite of how folks continue to soup-up their home theatrical experiences. […]