“Honey Boy” is a sordid saga “loosely” based upon troubled actor Shia LaBeouf’s thoroughly sad as hell childhood. This is clearly a movie LaBeouf needed to make. But why? To offer reasons for his jarringly erratic behavior after he became ...
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Inside a vertical prison system, inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, The Platform is a twisted social allegory about mankind at its darkest ...
Fueled by his love for wine, Elijah (Mamoudou Athie) enrolls in a course to become a master sommelier, an elite designation given only to a handful who are able to pass its notoriously difficult exam. It’s a dream that upends ...
https://youtu.be/JB-A7nYsrl0 The biggest deal about the new murder mystery thriller revolving around the antics of a voyeuristic young lad with Asperger’s Syndrome, “The Night Clerk”, is not really the story itself. Oh, it’s certainly passably amusing fare if you’ve got ...
The new two-part documentary, “Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time”, delivers exactly what the title indicates it will. Laurel Canyon is a place situated northwest of Hollywood in Southern California. And there once existed a magical time from the mid ...
Organizers had to scrap this year’s edition of South By Southwest (SXSW) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the good folks with the Austin, Texas festival were kind enough to provide the film review community with links to the featured ...
Evidently Co-Writers/Directors Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy that’s who. Their dark crime dramedy “Blow the Man Down” (shot entirely in Maine and available soon on amazon prime video) is equal parts silly, savage, dramatic, deranged, hilarious and horrific. Now ...
I spoke this week with Writer/Producer Rob DePalo about his moving film, “Tapestry”. Please click on this link for my review and interview: https://thequickflickcritic.blogspot.com/2020/03/tapestry-weaving-message-of-inspiration.html
Vin Diesel stars as Ray Garrison, a soldier recently killed in action and brought back to life as the superhero Bloodshot by the RST corporation. With an army of nanotechnology in his veins, he’s an unstoppable force – stronger than ...
The new release “Foggy Days” marks yet another entry in a provocative parade of short films from Sweden. With the focus on modern love, it’s message is both timeless and universal. I daresay nearly all of us have been the ...
Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy and brilliant scientist, Cecilia Kass (Moss) escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding, aided by her sister (Harriet Dyer, NBC’s The InBetween), their childhood friend (Aldis Hodge, Straight ...
We have our first look at Woody Harrelson on the set of Venom 2 as Cletus Kasady. Check out the spy shots below: I have mixed feelings about this. I am not a huge fan of the casting here as ...