By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) From Joel Potroykus, the filmmaker of Buzzard and The Alchemist Cookbook, comes another comedy that gives audiences a heaping serving of absurdity and weirdness. Potroykus takes his audiences back to the year 1999, when many people in the world feared the unknown of Y2K. His protagonist Abbie… Continue reading SXSW 2018 Review: RELAXER
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SXSW 2018 Review: A VIGILANTE
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Olivia Wilde stars as Sadie, a victim of spousal abuse, who now assists other victims by getting them out of their difficult and horrible situations. Sadie is on another mission, though. She has been desperately searching for her abusive ex-husband who continues roam freely. With every… Continue reading SXSW 2018 Review: A VIGILANTE
SXSW 2018 Review: WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) For many years after her death, poet Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon) was believed to be a lonely, reclusive spinster who didn’t have much of a life outside of her writing. This film hopes to help dispel this widely spread myth that began not long after the… Continue reading SXSW 2018 Review: WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY
Review: PACIFIC RIM UPRISING
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) Five years after Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim hit theaters, a sequel has finally arrived, but without the original filmmaker at the helm. Though I had a lot of fun with the first film, I very well knew then that the film has only so much… Continue reading Review: PACIFIC RIM UPRISING
Review: MIDNIGHT SUN
By Liz Lopez Rating: D+ “Midnight Sun” will not make viewers reach for tissues for tears of sadness, but rather for the money spent at the theater to view a rehashed 90 minute story about a girl who meets the boy of her dreams and an ongoing illness brings an early demise. I wanted to… Continue reading Review: MIDNIGHT SUN
Review: UNSANE
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Regardless of what one might think about any particular Steven Soderbergh film, there cannot be any denial of the filmmaker’s skills. Soderbergh is a director who chooses to direct, shoot and edit his own work and can do so outstandingly. The man is a master quite… Continue reading Review: UNSANE
SXSW 2018 Review: ISLE OF DOGS
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) The closing night headliner of the film festival was none other than filmmaker Wes Anderson’s latest film. This stop-motion animated love letter not only delivers laughs and warms the heart, but it also offers some valid commentary on political corruption and the corrupt’s use of fear… Continue reading SXSW 2018 Review: ISLE OF DOGS
Review: THE DEATH OF STALIN
By Liz Lopez Rating: B “The Death of Stalin” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and subsequently screened during Fantastic Fest in Austin last September. Political satirist and HBO comedy series “Veep” creator, as well as being an Emmy award-winning and an Oscar-nominated director, Armando Iannucci has co- written a hilarious satirical screenplay with… Continue reading Review: THE DEATH OF STALIN
Review: LOVE, SIMON
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) is a smart teenager, dealing with the usual problems of adolescence–identity, the future, and school. He has one major dilemma, however, a big dark secret he has kept from everyone, including his closest friends and family. Simon is gay and he just… Continue reading Review: LOVE, SIMON
Review: TOMB RAIDER
By Renee’ C. Rating: 4 (Out of 5 Reels) Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander), the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father (Dominic West) disappeared (IMDB). I went into this film not expecting much because the first two installments with… Continue reading Review: TOMB RAIDER