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Ghostlight - Movie Review Critics Score - 9 of 10 General Audience Score - 6 of 10 So in most places growing up, there are usually books that are required reading in school. Here in the U.S. you’d find books like Catcher In The Rye, Of Mice And Men, The Great Gatsby as well as books by Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens and such among those reading assignments. One name that would almost certainly make every English teachers assigned curriculum of authors would be William Shakespeare, with his popular tale of Romeo And Juliet being about his most famous play. Well, the new IFC film Ghostlight released over this summer weaves the Romeo And Juliet narrative into its plot in a very creative and ultimately heartbreaking way. I won’t stray into spoilers other than to say that this family drama is as touching and tear jerking as they come, without steering into the melodrama of this small family’s situation. A father and mother of a troubled teenage daughter are struggling to find ways to con...

Sing Sing - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 Full disclosure, I’ve never been incarcerated, nor do I have anybody close to me that is or has been. The closest thing that I’ve known to prison is when I watch films like The Shawshank Redemption or Great Freedom. I can only try to get in the headspace of someone going through that kind of extremely difficult situation. Well, the new A24 film Sing Sing tells the tale of a group of inmates, almost all of whom play themselves in the film. We watch the theatre group as they brainstorm, prepare for and rehearse a production put on by the Sing Sing correctional facility located in New York. This is a touching story of about ten men who develop a comradery as they go about this project, but it also highlights some flaws of the system that’s designed to keep them behind bars. While this was a beautiful and interesting piece of cinema, it didn’t really make a strong emotional impact on me, which it could’ve had...

Strange Darling - Movie Review Critics Score - 9 of 10 General Audience Score - 9 of 10 I’ve seen most of the big summer movies for 2024 with the exception of a few. Some have been pretty good, some have been underwhelming and a few just plain duds. Well who’d have thought that in late August the bomb would drop of what has to be without question the best film of the summer, but also undoubtedly one of the best films of the year to boot. A new two hander psychological thriller Strange Darling stumbles its way into theatres this weekend without much fanfare, yet it is the epitome of why I not only love cinema, but began to write film reviews as well. People need to know about amazing pieces of filmmaking such as this one and I want to help spread the word on them. That being said, I will keep my opening remarks vague for the sake of not spoiling anything, but I would encourage anybody to go into this film as blind as possible. It’s a fantastically wild ride that left me breathless. This...

Twisters - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 I can still remember my first experience with the original Twister movie, even though it was now almost 30 years ago 😱. I lived in Michigan but went to see it with my good friend Justin in Florida, I got so sick afterwards I almost threw up in his family’s minivan. Despite the rough start, I’ve loved that film ever since, went through an unhealthy obsession with tornadoes for a while and the poster hung on my wall for years. Naturally I was quite interested to see what the new Twisters would be, yet tapered my expectations for anything in the mainstream “blockbuster” season. Even with the writer/director Lee Isaac Chung of the Best Picture nominated Minari at the helm, Chung had no hand in the writing of this new film, so my skepticism was still hanging over Twisters like a . . . (insert bad weather pun). Like so many of the big studio remakes, sequels and prequels, they mostly follow a cut and paste form...

Longlegs - Movie Review Critics Score - 7 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 The serial killer film is a very popular subgenre of the crime/thriller drama, but is a difficult film to really hit the sweet spot of appeal to general audiences. Films like Silence Of The Lambs, Se7en and even Zodiac all have a number of elements in common that make them excel like dark and tense atmospheres, great character development and arguably most importantly, a great menacing villain to compel the main plotline forward. The new Neon title Longlegs is a serial killer film starring Nicolas Cage as the killer Longlegs and follows the story of Agent Lee Harker played by the decently cast Maika Monroe in her efforts to catch him. To put it simply, this film excels in many of its technical filmmaking aspects. Not only is Cage killing it in the role, pun intended, the film is exceedingly effective through the first two acts at creating and enveloping us in a dark, tense and foreboding atmosphere. Some o...