Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
Opening Birmingham Alabama’s 26th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival [...]
Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
Opening Birmingham Alabama’s 26th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival was Titus Kapher’s Exhibiting Forgiveness, a hard-hitting drama about a frustrated artist Tarrell (Moonlight’s Andre Holland) trying to create a family unit for his wife and young son that was missing his own youth. That exhibit comes back in full force when his long-lost father La’Ron falls […]
Trap (2024)
I walk into an M. Night Shyamalan movie with a certain set of expectations, not the least of which is that no matter how astonishingly stupid his plot twists turn out to be, the movie will have, at the very least, a certain level of style. He’s a good filmmaker on a technical level. He […]
The Best Picture Winners, Part 4: Cimarron (1930-31)
It’s a forgotten western that beat ‘City Lights’, ‘Dracula’, ‘Frankenstein’, ‘The Front Page’, ‘Morocco’, ‘The Public Enemy’ and ‘Little Caesar’ to a Best Picture prize, but history would have the last laugh.
Deadpool and Wolverine (2024)
It’s a team-up that only one wants to be a team-up. Can they ever get along?!
Twisters (2024)
Twisters isn’t exactly a sequel to Jan de Bont’s beloved 1996 tornado spectacle, its more of a remake-quel with, again, impressive visual effects and eardrum-rattling sound design placed around the story of a bunch of thrill-seeking hillbilly scientists who are about as deep as the puddle in your driveway. It gives you what you want, […]
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)
The third Beverly Hills Cop sequel arrives on Netflix this week just in time for the July 4th holiday and the fact that it is skipping theaters and going right for a streaming service is probably for the best. Like Murphy’s previous sequel Coming 2 America, the filmmakers obviously knew that it wasn’t something that […]
The Best Picture Winners Part 3: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-30)
The most devastating war of the 20th century inspired a lot of terrible things, but it did inspire one of the greatest and most enduring anti-war statements ever put on film. But, is it truly anti-war? [CLICK ON THE VIDEO]
The First Omen (2024)
Let me start by saying that I did NOT see Michael Mohan’s IMMACULATE, which came out a few weeks ago and to which my fellow critics have labeled this Omen prequel a less-than stellar carbon copy. Having not seen that film I feel that I can safely judge this movie on its own. So, with […]
