Author: Mark Saldana

While Amazon Prime’s Being the Ricardos offers a fascinating portrayal of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz during a particular span of time in their lives, Amazon Prime’s documentary Lucy and Desi offers a much more comprehensive story. Written by Mark Monroe and directed by Amy Poehler, this wonderful documentary film tells the complete story of… Continue reading LUCY AND DESI

Now available on multiple SVOD platforms is an emotionally charged independent film that touches upon the powerful feelings of grief, guilt, and how people struggle with the recovery from these forms of distress. Written by Rich Cirillo and directed by S J Creazzo, Skipping Stones may be, at times, a tough movie to watch, but… Continue reading SKIPPING STONES

I have seen a few adaptations of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, but I have never previously experienced a musical version that has touched my heart like this new movie by Joe Wright. Taking a very different approach, Wright’s film emphasizes the more sad and tragic aspects of the original story and takes it into… Continue reading CYRANO

Writer/director Sean Ellis takes on the werewolf horror subgenre and gives it a slightly different spin that offers commentary and some fictional social justice on the ugly truths of colonization. Though the movie has its moments that lack intensity, it also has its share of memorably horrific and suspenseful sequences that are sure to keep… Continue reading THE CURSED

Going into this movie, I was worried that it would simply retread so much familiar material that often comes with similar movies of this subgenre. If one has already watched K9 or Turner and Hooch, then they know exactly what I mean. A troublesome dog gets mismatched with a human who previously has had no… Continue reading DOG

As I state in my review for Marry Me, two romantic comedies are available beginning the weekend before Valentine’s Day. While I moderately like that movie, the better, more realistic and thoroughly entertaining movie is I Want You Back, an unorthodox, but solidly written and directed comedy starring Charlie Day and Jenny Slate. I had… Continue reading I WANT YOU BACK

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I am not at all surprised that Hollywood has a couple of romantic-comedies planned to open this weekend. Well, good ole lucky me gets to review them both! All snark aside, I actually found something to enjoy from both of these movies. The, first of which is the new… Continue reading MARRY ME

After multiple delays, courtesy of COVID-19, Kenneth Branagh’s sequel to his Murder on the Orient Express adaptation is finally available in theaters. Recently, I finally watched the first installment which, for some reason, I never got around to watching when it was first released five years ago. While I enjoyed the film and found it… Continue reading DEATH ON THE NILE

You either like it or you loathe it, but Jackass is what it is. And this new installment is exactly what one would expect from the franchise. That said; I had a great time watching this crazy/stupid rag-tag group of, obviously aged, jackasses doing what they obviously seem to love doing. They love to shock,… Continue reading JACKASS FOREVER

When it comes to science-fiction disaster, Roland Emmerich definitely comes to mind. I don’t mean his movies are always total disasters, because some of them have been actually entertaining, but the filmmaker is best known for sci-fi movies that involve global disasters that either involve space aliens or natural phenomena threatening our beloved planet. With… Continue reading MOONFALL