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Jesus Revolution Before mega-churches the size of sports arenas began preaching prosperity and weight loss, before televangelists and a billion-dollar “He gets us” ad campaign, back in the era of hippies and Woodstock and peace signs, there were Jesus freaks. The generation that rebelled against the military industrial complex, commercialism, their parents everything really included […]

Good Grief Following the great success of “Schitt’s Creek,” Dan Levy must have been wondering what to do next with his career. So it seems fitting that his first feature film as director is also about what comes next moving on when a major chapter closes, whether you want to or not. Levy has a

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie Search “cartoon villain” in the dictionary and you might find a picture of David Zaslav. He has already scrapped two feature length Looney Tunes films since taking over at Warner Bros. Discovery: last November’s live action/animated hybrid Coyote vs. Acme, which got the Batgirl treatment

Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain Please Don’t Destroy is not just any sketch comedy group. They are one of the biggest groups from the meme generation. During the pandemic they created short videos for TikTok and Twitter that were viewed by a well known comedy influencer. Once hired as writers for “Saturday

Cat Person “Cat Person” reveals the perils of becoming entangled with a man whose idea of romance is Han Solo kissing Princess Leia in the asteroid belt. But how can you be expected to spot such a teeny-tiny red flag? Margot (Emilia Jones) is a 20 year old college student who works part time at

200% Wolf 100% Wolf was fine. A locally produced cartoon from Flying Bark Productions, it was a generic and predictable ‘be true to yourself’ story made better by a strong voice cast and some wonderfully off the wall ideas, like making the big bad an ice cream man/werewolf hunter. Released in the same year as

After Death “In another life, ‘After Death’ would be garbage.” This is what one of the subjects of this project says. They don’t think our reality is as real as an afterlife they claim to have seen. That’s why it’s a feature (to put it kindly) and not, like I said before, a documentary. This

The Blue Angels The blue angels is a nonfiction film about the navy’s flight demonstration team which was made for IMAX, in two senses of the phrase. First, technically: “The Blue Angels” was shot with Sony’s Venice 2 IMAX certified digital cameras and features IMAX exclusive Expanded Aspect Ratio (EAR) throughout,” according to Cineworld’s website.

Champions “What do I call them if I can’t say the R-word?” asks Marcus (Woody Harrelson), a disgraced minor league basketball coach sentenced to 90 days of community service coaching the Friends, a team whose players have intellectual disabilities. “Their names,” the judge replies. Bobby Farrelly’s “Champions,” based on the 2018 Spanish film “Campeones,” follows

The Passenger Typically, if you are presented with a pair of roaming travelers in a road movie, you are meant to sympathize with at least one of them. Carter Smith’s “The Passenger” defiantly refuses this solace even as it undergoes, in a sickening, then inquisitive, and finally disappointing mannerisms, aberrations of extremes. “HI!” says the