Category: Reviews

SXSW Movie Review: Exodus – A Documentary Short on Life Post Incarceration

Exodus made its World Premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film & Television Festival, where it was nominated for the SXSW Grand Jury Award, Documentary Short Competition category. Nimco Sheikhaden (“I Dream a Dream That Dreams Back at Me” TV movie) is the director and stars Trinity Copeland and Assia Serrano. The short documentary explores two… Continue reading SXSW Movie Review: Exodus – A Documentary Short on Life Post Incarceration

SXSW 2025 Movie Review: Sweetness -Things aren’t what they seem to be

Did you ever wish they would remake the movie Misery with a teen “biggest fan” and a rock star victim? That was the feeling I had after seeing the very entertaining movie Sweetness. Young teen Rylee Hill has been a devoted fan of moody rock star Payton has been a member of the group Floor… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review: Sweetness -Things aren’t what they seem to be

Movie Review: WARFARE Is Possibly The Closest One Can Get To Witnessing Real Combat On The Big Screen

From writer/director Ray Mendoza (an actual war veteran) and Alex Garland (Civil War) comes an incredible film that offers the audience an immersive experience of what it feels like to be in wartime battle. This movie is not feel-good, patriotic, or jingoist material. The film gives its audience a realistic glimpse into the harrowing experience… Continue reading Movie Review: WARFARE Is Possibly The Closest One Can Get To Witnessing Real Combat On The Big Screen

Movie Review: THE AMATEUR Is A Decent Revenge Flick That Would’ve Benefitted From A Better Lead Actor

Based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell, the film adaptation of The Amateur has plenty of solid storytelling and assured writing and direction, but the casting of Rami Malek as the titular character fails to give this movie the necessary gravity it needs. It isn’t that Malek is horrible in… Continue reading Movie Review: THE AMATEUR Is A Decent Revenge Flick That Would’ve Benefitted From A Better Lead Actor

SXSW 2025 Movie Review: BABY DOE – A Cold Case Documentary

When law enforcement knocks on the door of the middle-class Ohio family Mark and Gail Ritchey in 2019, it seems to come out of nowhere, but Gail has been fearing this day since 1993. The dead body of a newborn, found locally all those years ago, hasbeen linked to Gail through DNA testing of a… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review: BABY DOE – A Cold Case Documentary

SXSW 2025 Movie Review:   It Ends – An Engrossing Horror/Thriller

The scene: present day. Three college students are beingdriven home by an old high school friend, Travis, played by Michell Cole, an ex-soldier with a soft southern accent. Day, the sole woman, played by Akira Jackson, is a whip-smart African American. Phinehas Yoon plays James the somewhat nihilistic Asian, and Noah Toth plays Fish (Fisher)… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review:   It Ends – An Engrossing Horror/Thriller

SXSW 2025 Movie Review: Dear Tomorrow – A Sympathetic Documentary

In this Danish/Swedish/Japanese co-production, we are told that 40% of adults in modern-day Japan say they are lonely. Increasingly, a large percentage of people live alone. We meet two such people in our film: one, a 45-year-old man we’ll call M, and a 43-year-old woman we’ll call F. M works for a business and feels… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review: Dear Tomorrow – A Sympathetic Documentary

SXSW 2025 Movie Review: SHUFFLE – How Good Intensions Can Go Bad

Director Benjamin Flaherty is himself a recovering alcoholic. He got help after many years from a sponsor and from working in the program. When the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, it covered addiction treatment. Since that time, many bogus treatment centers have sprung up. They are simply patient mills whose object is to… Continue reading SXSW 2025 Movie Review: SHUFFLE – How Good Intensions Can Go Bad