Home Reviews Page 56

Reviews

“Blue Beetle” Review : The Spanish Team Brings Heat in Late Summer!

After a string of box office disappointments — “Black Adam,” “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” and “The Flash” — Warner Bros/DC superhero films have become like production Kryptonite and have suffered as a result. The DC production team has now turned to a young Hispanic character — who isn’t accustomed to seeing his reflection in…

‘Heart of Stone’: Special Effects But No ‘Waiting for Gadot’

First, the good news. Heart of Stone will definitely get many thumbs up from nerdy adolescents who appreciate the thriller genre. This is one of the most action-packed films of this or any season, jam-packed with apocalyptic scenes from such far-flung locations as London, Lisbon, Senegal, Reykjavik, and the Tyrolean Alps. The movie exposes the…

Rhode Island International Film Festival Review: Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black is an Expressive Dramatization of Rudolph Valentino’s Legacy

Many legendary Hollywood icons often become and remain famous because they willingly fight any obstacle that challenges their dream, and embrace the decadence and excess that accompanies it. Celebrated Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino not only did just that as he pursued his film career in the mid-1910s-mid-1920s. Valentino’s most loyal female fan remained committed to…

Review: Surviving “The Last Voyage of the Demeter”

There’s no doubt about it, we’re in the midst of a vampire resurgence. While there have been a slew of vampire films in its wake, Twilight seemed to kill the bigger budget bloodsucker flicks for a bit. 2023 finds life coming back to the dead though. Sure, there are plenty of films still in production,…

Fantasia International Film Festival Review: Mio Imada and Ren Meguro Forge a Passionate Relationship in ‘As Long As We Both Shall Live’

©2023 映画「わたしの幸せな結婚」製作委員会 Actress Mio Imada and actor Ren Meguro’s protagonists may be living in a fantasy world in their new action film, As Long As We Both Shall Live, but that doesn’t mean they have to give up on their real-world dreams. The characters are fighting both human and supernatural enemies in the romantic drama…

Fantasia International Film Festival : A Fantastic Masterpiece from British Filipino Director Paris Zarcilla, “Raging Grace” Satisfies Your Thriller Cravings!

Synopsis: A bold coming-of-rage story. Joy is an undocumented Filipina immigrant who is struggling to do the best she can for her daughter when she secures the perfect job; taking care of an extremely wealthy but terminal old man. The new position pays well and guarantees a roof over their heads but very soon, Joy and…

Japan Cuts Film Review – ‘Mondays: See You ‘This’ Week!’ is an Enjoyable Time Loop Group Project

Time loops are a tricky thing, and it typically takes film or television characters a decent amount of time to even figure out that’s what happening. Shock and denial tend to come in first, and then the difficulty of convincing someone else that this is real causes considerable frustration and dismay. After that, it’s a…

Japan Cuts: Wandering, A Devastatingly Beautiful Film About Society’s Obsession With Labels

The line-up for the 2023 edition of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film includes the film Wandering, also released with the title The Wandering Moon. The movie directed by Lee Sang-il is based on the novel Rurou no Tsuki by Yuu Nagira, winner of 17th Japan Booksellers’ Award in 2020. Fate brings together two…

Japan Cuts / “The First Slam Dunk”: Review / You Won’t See a Better Animation Film This Year

When manga artist Takehiko Inoue drew “Slam Dunk,” an ambitious and emotionally layered sports manga which ran in “Weekly Shōnen Jump” from 1990 – 96, it left audiences with a vivid recollection soaked in high school nostalgia. After the series ended in 1996, there were some brief offshoots of the main series in collaboration with…

Review: “Meg 2: The Trench” is Absolutely Bonkers

When The Meg came out in 2018, no one was expecting high art. People were looking for a fun, jaunty, brainless adventure they could wash away their worries with. The box office told the same story, too. online pharmacy buy tamiflu online with best prices today in the USA Making a large enough dent to…

Movie Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’s Dated Jokes Cause Havoc on Visually Stunning Series Reboot

Parodying, and putting a unique new spin on, a beloved pop-cultural phenenom is one of the most endearing and humorous ways in which people can pay tribute to the trend. The filmmakers of the latest entry in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, Mutant Mayhem, have done just that by creating an overall visually stellar…