Movie Views
Musings about movies.

Celebrate the Cinematic Achievement of Io Capitano
4 stars Sixteen-year-old cousins Seydou and Moussa (Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall) have a dream. They want to leave their homeland of Senegal and go

Bad Shepherd So Close to Being Great
2 ½ stars Four friends driving to a remote hunting lodge hit a woman who was walking on the side of the road. While checking

Sex is Boring
1 star Three 16-year-old girls go off on their own to the Greek party resort of Malia for seven days of Charles Bukowski-level debauchery. Their

Mulroney Delivers Solid Action
2 ½ stars After watching the scum who raped and murdered his daughter get sent to prison for life, charter school wrestling coach Harry (Dermot

Scrambled Leaves a Bad Taste
1 star Nellie Robinson is at a crossroads in her life: Her friends are all getting married or having babies. While that gives her plenty

Fitting In is Fierce, Funny
3 ½ stars According to dictionary.com, an auteur is “a filmmaker whose personal influence and artistic control over a movie are so great that the

Terrifying Trunk
3 ½ stars Let’s set the stage before you start watching Trunk: Locked In, which is now playing on Amazon Prime. Turn out all the

My Way is Overcomplicated, Still Exciting
3 stars Sometimes, less is more, even in otherwise awesome action movies. In his new movie, I Did It My Way, director/cinematographer Jason Kwan (Chasing

Freud’s Last a Flop
1 star “The world is on the brink of war. In his final days, Sigmund Freud, a recent escapee with his daughter from the Nazi

The Magnificent Madeleine
3 ½ stars The 1979 movie Manhattan opens with the lead character, Isaac Davis (Woody Allen), dictating notes for his latest novel. “He adored New

Funny , Twisted First Time Caller
3 stars Unless you are a devotee of the genre, shock jock radio can be tough to take, and to their credit, codirectors J.D. Brynn

The Beekeeper is Formulaic, But Fun
3 stars I’ve always been an action movie fanatic. There was a time in my formative movie viewing years when all I needed to know

Reflect Fails to Resonate
2 stars Feeling an oncoming existential crisis, Summer (Dana Kippel) convinces four of her girlfriends to go on a desert adventure retreat where they can

Night Swim Stays in the Shallow End
1 star Forty-nine years ago, Universal Studios unleashed Jaws on the world, making everyone afraid to go into the ocean. This week, the studio joined

Brosnan Shines as Fast Charlie
3 ½ stars Pierce Brosnan has tried almost every role imaginable since hanging up his license to kill back with the 2002 James Bond flick

The Pleasure of The Public Enemy
Did people scream when they first saw this famous final scene in The Public Enemy? In a crowded movie house back in 1931, I would

The Marsh King’s Daughter
1 star A reclusive survivalist lives with his family in a cabin about as far off the grid as possible. He spends his days training

The Persian Version
4 stars There is a familiarity found when watching the first part of writer/director Maryam Keshavaraz’s new movie, The Persian Version, a feeling that although