Oppenheimer
Director Christopher Nolan has a preoccupation with time. As such, he eschews a linear chronology even when telling what could be a straightforward story. His biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) begins in 1954 at the start of a security hearing for the “father of the atomic bomb.” The renowned physicist is suspected of […]
Fast Film Reviews on talkSPORT radio
I’m on the radio reviewing movies for UK-based talkSPORT! BARBIE 🎀 had the biggest debut of the year with a staggering $162 million in the U.S. this weekend. I also discuss the action comedy POLITE SOCIETY 💥 which is on Peacock and available to rent on other streaming services. My July 23rd segment begins 3 […]
Fast Film Reviews on talkSPORT radio
This was my July 16th appearance on UK-based talkSPORT radio! MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE 🏃 is the #1 movie. The 7-episode series HIJACK ✈️is a thing on Apple TV+. I review both. My segment begins 7 minutes into the 2:30-3:00 section. (23 minutes from the end). Enjoy! Source: Live Radio, Breaking Sports […]
Barbie
A group of young girls are playing with baby dolls. The toys are plump and round like newborns, and the girls ostensibly pretend to be their mothers. Suddenly a statuesque and shapely poseable figure in a bikini looms large in the distance like a monolith. The girls are inspired to smash their current playthings against […]
WHAM!
Filmmaker Chris Smith has built a career in documentaries. American Movie was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary in 1999 at Sundance. Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is a compelling account of the Fyre Festival fraud, and as executive producer, Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness is the 7-part series that hypnotized […]
Sound of Freedom
Tim Ballard (Jim Caviezel) is a special agent for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As an undercover operative, he has successfully captured nearly 300 child predators. However, he wrestles with a moral conundrum. The inability to rescue the actual children themselves weighs heavily on him. He decides to do something about it. After […]
Fast Film Reviews on talkSPORT radio
Come listen to my movie reviews on UK-based talkSPORT radio! My July 9th appearance: Netflix has the Chris Hemsworth action shoot ’em-up EXTRACTION 2 🔫 and WHAM! 🎵, a documentary on the 1980s pop duo. Also, the hidden camera comedy TV show JURY DUTY 👨🏻⚖️ is on Amazon Prime. My segment begins 10 minutes into […]
Fast Film Reviews on talkSPORT radio
This was my July 2nd appearance on UK-based talkSPORT radio! INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY 🐍 was the #1 movie. Wes Anderson’s latest opus ASTEROID CITY 🏜️ is also out. I review both. My segment begins 6 minutes into the 2:30-3:00 piece. (24 minutes from the end). Enjoy! Source: Live Radio, Breaking Sports […]
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
The panic over Artificial Intelligence (AI) has fluctuated in the public consciousness ever since Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in 1927. However, the current fixation with the technology has become a ridiculous obsession in the modern zeitgeist. The latest chapter in the Mission Impossible franchise capitalizes on that fear. Covert ops agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) finds […]
Past Lives
Na Young (Seung Ah Moon) and Hae Sung (Seung Min Yim) are 12-year-old friends. Both are extremely smart, but Na Young gets upset when she earns the 2nd highest grade to her fellow classmate. She usually comes in first. Hae Sung is consoling. Soon after, Na Young’s family emigrates from South Korea to Toronto. She […]