Movies

It’s been a year. Wait, way more than a year and still the COVID pandemic nips at our heels, dives into our lives at times and causes chaos. Who wouldn’t want to escape from that particular crapfest? Granted, these films are not exactly a warm bubble bath on a cold Continue Reading

For beings that are essentially nothing more than reanimated corpses, zombies are doing rather nicely at the whole evolving to a higher life form thing. It’s highly unlikely Charles Darwin had them in mind when he penned Origin of Species, but momentous scientific breakthroughs in understanding aside, zombies have taken Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTFollowing the deadly events at home, the Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk Continue Reading

There are, so the cliched-inclined tell us, only two things that are certain in life – death and taxes. To this exceptionally short and likely inaccurate list, a great many people might also add, that the sequel to a hit movie will inevitably be a woeful and unmitigated mess, or Continue Reading

Can you contain the searing truth and undeniable essence of a powerfully true story in a less than adventurous vessel? Usually not, and yet in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, directed by Lee Daniels to screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, that is essentially what happens as we Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTSam (Karen Gillan) was only 12 years old when her mother Scarlet (Lena Headey), an elite assassin, was forced to abandon her. Sam was raised by The Firm, the ruthless crime syndicate her mother worked for. Now, 15 years later, Sam has followed in her mother’s footsteps and grown into Continue Reading