Month: March 2021

By Renee’ C. Rating: 4.5 (Out of 5 Reels) Cold War spy Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his Russian source, Oleg Pendovsky  (Merab Ninidze) try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis (IMDB). I am a big fan of Benedict Cumberbatch work in movies and television. Especially, the BBC version of Sherlock so… Continue reading THE COURIER

By Mark Saldana Rating: 4 (Out of 4 Stars) With an already impressive list of performances in his filmography, Anthony Hopkins delivers yet another amazing and tremendous performance in The Father. Based on the play Le Pere by Florian Zeller, the film adaptation more or less feels like a film adaptation of a theater production,… Continue reading THE FATHER

By Mark Saldana Rating: 2.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Anthony and Joe Russo, the filmmaking duo responsible for some wonderful entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, have returned to cinema with a dark and gritty true story about post-war PTSD, drug additction, and crime. Despite their decision to part ways with the MCU, the filmmaker… Continue reading CHERRY

By Mark Saldana Rating: 4 (Out of 4 Stars) The Holocaust and World War II had a massively tragic impact on the Jewish people in Europe. For the Jewish people in German-occupied Poland, especially in the city of Lodz, their lives were totally uprooted, as they were moved into camps, forced into slave labor, or… Continue reading STILL LIFE IN LODZ

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) With an amazing voice cast, gorgeous computer animation, and a genuinely heartfelt story, Disney studios has yet another winner on their hands. That might sound a tad formulaic, but if a certain formula works and succeeds greatly, it is best to stick with it. Raya and… Continue reading RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON

By Mark Saldana Rating: 2 (Out of 4 Stars) With a slew of false starts, production and creative problems, reshoots, rewrites, and retooling, it is a wonder that this film is finally seeing the light of day. Based on the book, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Chaos Walking is a messy film whose production… Continue reading CHAOS WALKING

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) It has been almost thirty three years since the Eddie Murphy movie Coming to America opened in theaters and became a comedy classic. Since then the movie has nearly constantly earned a mass of devoted fans who often repeat some of the more quotable lines and… Continue reading COMING 2 AMERICA

By Laurie Coker Rating: B- We need humor, especially now. I decent, belly laugh can raise spirits and is priceless to the soul. Over thirty years after the Coming to America had us rolling in the aisles, the cast is back, and then some in Coming 2 America. This newest film offers up culture-clash comedy… Continue reading COMING 2 AMERICA