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Rob Peace (2024)

Rob Peace Now this is a true life story of “Rob Peace,” such movies aren’t made these days any more. The title character, in the strong Jay Will style of a young Denzel Washington, was raised in East Orange New Jersey as a science enthusiast. Rob’s father was a drug dealer and his mother juggled […]

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The Critic (2023)

The Critic McKellen portrayed his character of a cold ambitious thug with an inborn zest for violence and robbery who is ambitiously prowling through the slums of London in The Good Liar but now has made himself even more repelling and is being a critic. In the hit and miss thriller The Critic by Anand

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Magpie (2024)

Magpie What fortitude does Annette possess, who is played by Daisy Ridley and who is indeed a very troubled British woman and mother of two as one of the characters in “Magpie”? She has gotten a very short angular haircut which in a different situation could definitely be considered very fashionable (a la Isabella Rossellini).

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Parachute (2023)

Parachute In 2007, soon after her sit as brittle, sizeist mean girl Amber Von Tussle in Adam Shankman’s popular ‘Hairspray’, actor Brittany Snow penned an article for People explicating her longstanding fight with anorexia as well. Yet in a cultural moment that was rather uncomfortable with young female celebrities having mental disorders it was the

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Radical (2023)

Radical “Radical,” a Mexican film in Spanish, is based on the true story of an extraordinary teacher in a marginalized community. Chucho (Daniel Haddad) manages an elementary school in a very impoverished area filled with crooked politicians and plagued by violence from drug mafia. Sergio (Eugenio Derbez) is the newly recruited teacher whom the school

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Azrael (2024)

Azrael While the concept of humor through film in ‘Azrael’ can be applauded regarding the wordless gore filled indie in the revenge genre about a woman who flees a religious sect and zombies if such things exist the film has been a sucker in showing some very basic aspects of its premise. In its quest

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Dance First (2023)

Dance First Samuel Beckett’s 1953 novel “The Unnamable” contains one of the most memorable lines in an English text “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” This is how these words by the Irish poet, playwright, essayist and novelist are overarchingly understood. They convey clearly and simply, not least in themselves, the inconsolable anguish and

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