Asteroid City
A dramatic performance within a play within a television broadcast becomes a desperately twee confection even for Wes Anderson. On a 1950s black-and-white TV show, a host (Bryan Cranston) describes what the audience is about to see. A playwright, (Edward Norton), is introduced. Jones Hall (Jason Schwartzman) and Mercedes Ford (Scarlett Johansson) are actors that […]
No Hard Feelings
32-year-old Maddie Barker (Jennifer Lawrence) is about to lose her childhood home in Montauk, New York. She owes a lot of back taxes thanks to skyrocketing property values in the resort town. Maddie works part-time as a bartender and also as an Uber driver. Things seem dire when her car is repossessed. So when an […]
Fast Film Reviews on talkSPORT radio
On Sunday, May 28th, I reviewed THE LITTLE MERMAID on UK-based talkSPORT radio. Also, the documentary LOVE TO LOVE YOU, DONNA SUMMER (streaming on Max). My review begins just 8 minutes into the 2:30-3:00 segment (22 minutes from the end). Enjoy! Source: Live Radio, Breaking Sports News, Opinion – talkSPORT
Fast Film Reviews on talkSPORT radio
My Sunday, May 21st appearance on UK-based talkSPORT radio. I review FAST X, the latest installment in the Fast & Furious franchise. Also, THE ARTIFICE GIRL, a sci-fi drama available to rent on streaming. My review begins just a minute into the 2:30-3:00 segment (29 minutes from the end). Enjoy! Source: Live Radio, Breaking Sports […]
Elemental
Element City is a thriving metropolis. It is shown that water showed up first. Land came next. Air followed. Fire was the last to arrive. A hierarchy emerged. Fire is marginalized as the municipality was not designed in their best interest. The different elements live in mostly segregated spaces. Any similarities to New York City […]
The Flash
Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) is the Flash, the fastest man alive. He fondly recalls his loving parents, Nora (Maribel Verdú) and Henry (Ron Livingston), before his happy childhood was shattered by his mother’s murder. His innocent father is in jail. Henry was wrongly convicted. In a particularly vulnerable moment, Barry discovers he can go backward […]
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Ex-soldier Noah Diaz (Anthony Ramos) lives with his mother, Breanna (Luna Lauren Velez). He’s an electronics expert, recently turned down for a job. Little brother Kris (Dean Scott Vasquez) has sickle cell disease, but they have no medical insurance to get help. Noah only wants to provide for his family. Can he get a leg […]
Reality
Reality is an odd film. One of those “truth is stranger than fiction” type tales. The full name of the central individual is Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney). I am sure most Americans are unaware of her existence. The chronicle begins when she comes home and is confronted by the FBI. They explain they have a […]
Missing
Missing is a popular title for movies, especially ones involving people last seen in South America. Before this flick was released in January 2023, I associated the title with a 1982 movie starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek about the disappearance of an American journalist in Chile. It received four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, […]
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Occasionally, it’s better to enjoy a movie for the spectacle that it is and worry less about the story contained within. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is that kind of picture. This is the sequel to 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse, the Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature that introduced the idea of multiple Spider-People across variants […]