Category: Reviews

By Liz Lopez Rating: B+ Director Joe Carnahan (Boss Level) and co-screenwriter Kurt McLeod have created an action thriller screenplay that some cinefiles may think they know what to anticipate at every scene. It shouldn’t be judged quite yet, even if the two lead roles include Frank Grillo and Gerard Butler (and share producing credits)… Continue reading COPSHOP

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Writer/director/actor Justin Chon has chosen to use film to reveal a very ugly flaw within US immigration laws that is only well-known to anyone who has faced a similar struggle to remain in this country. This particular law has to do with Asian immigrants who were… Continue reading BLUE BAYOU

By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) Tammy Faye and her one time husband Jim Bakker once had a popular evangelical television program called The PTL Club and hoped to spread their “philosophy” of Christianity to the world. Well as most of the world knows it, The PTL Club and Jim Bakker would… Continue reading THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

By Laurie Coker Rating: C- Clint Eastwood’s filmmaking in front and behind the camera is legendary and iconic. He has created unique, memorable characters and directed impressive films. Now in his 90’s, the veteran is still drawing at the box office, but perhaps, this is the time to sit back and enjoy his later years.… Continue reading CRY MACHO

By Laurie Coker Rating: C There seems to be a more noticeable trend now for taking traditional male roles and casting women in them, especially in the violent action film genre. The problem with this lies in the fact that these stories aren’t fresh. Director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan makes a genuine effort to create an action-packed… Continue reading KATE

By Laurie Coker Rating: C+/B- Admittedly, horror films don’t thrill me. I prefer old-school scary movies like Hitchcock’s. He knew how to terrify with implication and camera angles and not gratuitous violence and floods of blood. Director James Wan’s ‘Malignant’ does use some impressive approaches to the terror factor, but ultimately, he relies far too… Continue reading MALIGNANT

By Laurie Coker Rating: A- When is too soon, after a tragedy – to move on, to forgive, to laugh?  ‘Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11’ answers the question of when it is too soon to be situationally funny. The nation and the world witnessed the horrific events of the terror attack on the United States,… Continue reading TOO SOON: COMEDY AFTER 9/11

By Liz Lopez Rating: C+ When a film is listed as being in the horror/comedy genre, some folks may inquire how these two genres can describe one film.  Scripted and directed by Michael J. Ahern, Christopher Dalpe and Brandon Perras, these three writer/directors also co-star in their own film. There is no doubt that this… Continue reading DEATH DROP GORGEOUS