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Cha Cha Real Smooth - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 Cooper Raiff is an up and coming writer, director and producer in Hollywood that general audiences will start to notice soon. After critics responded well to his debut film S#!% House back in 2020, he’s back for another round with Cha Cha Real Smooth. After debuting back at the Sundance Film Festival, which is where I got to see it in January, and after winning the U.S. Dramatic Competition Audience Award, Apple purchased Cha Cha for a reported $15 million dollar price tag. It just dropped into theatres and streaming on Apple+ last month, and while it’s ultimately a film about, life, love and heartache, general audiences and critics alike can enjoy the melancholic emotional beats the movies hits. The humor, likeable characters and their relationships that the screenplay gives us to work with are well above average and they make this romantic drama/comedy one of the better ones I’ve seen in a whi...

The Sea Beast - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 Kids Score - 7 of 10 When it comes to kids movies, getting and holding a child’s interest is not an easy task. As a father of a seven year old with ADHD and a ten year old with autism, unless they’re already familiar with the characters on the screen from the opening scene, getting them to stick around for a full length feature film can be quite a challenge. The new digitally animated film from Netflix, The Sea Beast, as an independent IP, with children not being familiar with any of the characters or story, is up against it from the opening scene. Fortunately for my viewing experience, this film was up to the challenge, with a great sense of pirate ship sailing, animated sea monsters attacking, swashbuckling adventures to be had right out of the gate. The opening had me harkening back to the beginning of The Little Mermaid and the song Fathoms Below or how the opening of Frozen with the Frozen Heart ...

Nope - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 I used to be a movie trailer junkie. As soon as the latest trailer would drop for a Marvel, Pixar, alien, sci-fi or pretty much any other kind of film, I’d be all over it. But the older I get, the more value and also the more fun I find in knowing as little as possible, at least for the films I know I’m going to see. After Get Out and Us, Jordan Peele has locked himself in as this generation’s M. Night Shyamalan and I know, no matter what his next few projects are, I will watch them no matter what trailers come out or what they show me. Peele’s new film Nope is flying into theatres this weekend and this is a shining example of a film I wish I’d seen and knew as little as possible about before setting foot in that theatre. Don’t watch any trailers if you haven’t yet. As a matter of fact, don’t read the synopsis of this review, unless you’re on the fence that this is a film for you. Peele clearly has the hang of...

Thor Love And Thunder - Movie Review Critics Score - 9 of 10 General Audience Score - 9 of 10 Taika Waititi is a fascinating actor, writer and director. After directing the critically acclaimed and generally beloved superhero film Thor Ragnarok back in 2017, he went on to win an Oscar for his 2019 Jojo Rabbit screenplay. Apparently the executives at Disney liked him enough to have him back for the fourth Thor installment, Love And Thunder. Taika’s got a wacky sense of humor that some people can’t get on the same wavelength with but he also has a very smart take on the superhero genre. Thor Love And Thunder deconstructs the superhero Thor and if you know anything about Waititi, he does it with a humorous spin on it. But while Ragnarok had it’s moments of hilarity, Love And Thunder is an absolute riot. The jokes fly at a near constant basis through the first two acts but the film settles down to establish some emotional stakes in the third. Some will say it’s too goofy, the characters ca...

After Yang - Movie Review Critics Score - 9 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 When critics put together their favorite films of the year list (we all do), we consider the movies that move, touch and reach us on a different level than the rest. Certain films speak to us more than others do, it’s the nature of art and it’s interpretation by each individual viewing it. I got to see the new film from writer/director Kogonada, After Yang back at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It was not only my favorite film of the festival, it’s stayed my favorite film of year, as of this writing. With it’s recent release on VOD streaming and Blu-Ray, I wanted to revisit the film and put my thoughts down about this creation from a wonderful director. This is a delicate film, it’s not big, loud, it’s not in your face, there are messages but they’re contemplative, not instructive. Kogonada invites us to relax, pull up a seat, enjoy a cup of tea and let your mind ponder the complexities of this t...