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By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Now available via VOD and Digital platforms is an engrossing and compelling documentary about alternative veterinary medicine. Most people (myself included) have viewed healthcare for pets in rather short-sighted and limited ways. Such is not at all the case for veterinarian Dr. Martin Goldstein and his… Continue reading THE DOG DOC

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) There are never, ever any easy answers to the questions teenage pregnancy poses, especially when such pregnancy occurs as the result of abuse. Writer/director Eliza Hittman presents this troubling dilemma to her audiences in this heartbreaking and powerful film. Hittman delivers a gut-wrenching and stressful movie… Continue reading NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS

By Liz Lopez Rating: B-/C+ The faith-based drama, “I Still Believe” is directed by the Erwin Brothers, Andrew and Jon, the filmmaking team behind their successful “I Can Only Imagine” (2018). “I Still Believe” is based on the real events in Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Jeremy Camp’s life. He was inspired to write a Christian/Gospel song… Continue reading I STILL BELIEVE

By Liz Lopez Rating: B+ Watching the trailer to a film may be the way someone decides to view a film or skip it as something that is not interesting to them, or they have a pre-conceived notion of what it is about, so they don’t give it a second thought. “The Hunt” is one… Continue reading THE HUNT

By Mark Saldana Rating: 2.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Based on the Valiant Comics, Bloodshot introduces movie audiences to the character of Ray Garrison, an unwitting pawn in a race to create a team of enhanced super soldiers for mostly financial gain and power. The movie serves as a hopeful opportunity to launch another comic-inspired… Continue reading BLOODSHOT

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) Most American cinephiles have seen plenty of Italian gangster/organized crime films based mostly in the United States. Italy’s The Traitor gives these audiences a more complete glimpse of the other side of that coin. Based on the real story of Tommaso Buscetta, the film serves as… Continue reading THE TRAITOR

By Liz Lopez Rating: B- Benh Zeitlin’s follow-up to ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ (eight years later), is “Wendy” where a young elementary school aged girl, Wendy (played by Tommie Milazzo at age three and by Devin France at 10), has watched her single mother Angela (Shay Walker), toil away at the local diner by… Continue reading WENDY

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Depression and alcoholism often go hand in hand and can make for a toxic combination in one’s life. That is a struggle which, unfortunately, Ben Affleck knows all too well, but seems to rise above it for his passion in life–cinema. Well, his latest acting turn… Continue reading THE WAY BACK

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Anyone who has ever lost a loved one knows that desire to be reunited with that person if it were at all possible. That is the main drive of the two lead characters of Disney/Pixar’s newest movie Onward. The film deals with the theme of life,… Continue reading ONWARD