Reviews

Wish is disappointing we expect more from Disney. Asha (Ariana DeBose) is a 17-year old girl who wishes upon a star to help save the Kingdom of Rosas from King Magnifico (Chris Pine) who has become a dictator who insists that his directions be followed as he holds the wishes of citizen of Rosas in […]

Suzanne Collins’ 200 latest young adult novel of dystopian Pst-War nation Panem is brought to the silver screen again by Francis Lawrence a prequel.  That may make some viewers and fans think of Star Wars and the infancy of its initial trilogy. But Lawrence doesn’t make The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes […]

This new Sofia Coppola (“Lot in translation”) film is a delicate, intimate account from Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me. Priscilla stars Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi as the high schooler and rock’n roll superstar draftee who would meet at a soiree in a Wiesbaden, Germany army base. Here is a ‘limited’ biopic that […]

The Holdovers is a return to form for Nebraska native Alexander Payne centering on a teacher and student stuck with each other over Christmas break at an elite New England rep school Barton during the early 1970s. The campus dramedy is consistently funny throughout, more so  in the earlier sections before finding an emotional rhythm […]

Martin Scorsese follows up The Irishman with another epic involving America’s treatment of indigenous peoples with a kind of sobering, contemplative magnetism. Meanderingly demanding, Killers of the Flower Moon tempers its energy off of avarice, corruption and intolerance that could be the acclaimed auteur’s most tragic, condemnatory film to date. Scorsese and Roth diligently draw […]