“Mortal Engines” may have flopped at the Box Office but it’s worth revisiting the film, especially for it’s message of female empowerment. Continue reading Full Steam Ahead: The Real Reason Why Mortal Engines Is Worth Revisiting
This is not a comedy. Ordinarily a movie review would not begin by telling you what the movie is not, but when the theater marquee flashes “Starring Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish”, most anyone would assume they are in for a 2-hour laugh out loud romp with the promise of some outlandish one-liners to drop at the next party. Instead, the directorial debut from Andrea Berloff is a relatively violent mob movie. Continue reading Review: “The Kitchen” (2019) WARNER BROS.
The year was 1999. I was but a mere six years old then, but I remember vividly the release of such monumental films as Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut”, Paul Thomas Anderson’s behemoth masterpiece, “Magnolia”, and the first return of “Star Wars” in nearly 20 years, “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace”. Amongst the litany of great films that year, another had come along, rich with unique tension and flavor, destined to change the very fabric of action films and blockbusters forever.
The Matrix. Continue reading The Matrix: Trans Empowerment
In Their Own League 