Wonka is delightfully whimsy, family-focused, and full of pure imagination. Armed with nothing but a hatful of dreams, young chocolatier Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) manages to change the world, one delectable bite at a time. Wonka takes audiences back to the origins of the inventor, stepping back in time and Continue Reading
Movie Review: Disney’s Wish
Disney’s Wish is a celebration of 100 years of magic and wonder and after seeing it the little kid in me was very happy and could not hide the tears of joy this film brought. Young Asha (Ariana DeBose) makes a wish so powerful that it’s answered by a cosmic Continue Reading
Movie Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes us back to the world of Panem and reminds us why audiences fell in love with this franchise. Years before he becomes the authoritarian president of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), remains the last hope for his fading lineage. Continue Reading
Movie Review: Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a campy, polished, refreshing slasher gem full of mystery, suspense, self-awareness, smarts, and gruesome kills. An axe-wielding maniac terrorizes residents of Plymouth, Mass., after a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy. Picking off victims one by one, the seemingly random revenge killings soon become part of a larger, Continue Reading
Movie Review: The Marvels
The Marvels is filled with action, comedy, and a fast pace making for some fun-filled entertainment. Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. However, unintended consequences see her shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. Continue Reading
Movie Review: Five Nights at Freddy’s
Five Nights At Freddy’s was fun but freezes regarding the fright factor and thrills. A troubled security guard (Josh Hutcherson) begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the late shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through. When Continue Reading
Movie Review: The Creator
Critic Rating: 4/5 The Creator is a realistic Sci-Fi film with beautiful world crafting but gets lost in its convoluted political matter. As a future war between the human race and artificial intelligence rages on, ex-special forces agent Joshua (John David Washington) is recruited to hunt down and kill Continue Reading
Movie Review: A Haunting in Venice
Critic Rating: 3.5/5 A Haunting in Venice puts a supernatural twist on Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot’s third mystery. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) investigates a murder while attending a Halloween seance at a haunted palazzo in Venice, Italy. Mysteries can be dull, with so much set up, talking, Continue Reading
Movie Review: The Nun 2
Critic Rating: 3.5/5 The Nun 2 takes audiences back into the darkest chapter of The Conjuring Universe, but is this second crusade worth your time? In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful Continue Reading
Movie Review: The Equalizer 3
Critic Rating: 3.5/5 The Equalizer 3 is equal parts violence and emotion and a fine closer to this series. Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) finds solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Now living in Southern Italy, he soon Continue Reading