Tag: Drama

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel NIGHTMARE ALLEY review

About the film (courtesy of Searchlight Pictures): An ambitious carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is. Bradley Cooper first game onto my radar when he played a meek reporter in J.J. Abrams’ …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel NATIONAL CHAMPIONS review

About the film (courtesy of STX Entertainment): Three days before the college football national championship game, star quarterback LeMarcus James (Stephan James) and teammate Emmett Sunday (Alexander Ludwig) ignite a player’s strike declaring they won’t compete until all student-athletes are fairly compensated. With billions of dollars at risk and legacies on the line, the stakes …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel WEST SIDE STORY review

About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Studios): West Side Story tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City. Steven Spielberg brings a new and improved classic back to the big screen in a big way. It’s very clear from the onset that Spielberg must have been very …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel DON’T LOOK UP review

About the film (courtesy of Netflix): Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem — it’s on a direct collision course with Earth. The other problem? No one really seems to care. Turns …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel WOLF review

About the film (courtesy of Focus Features): Believing he is a wolf trapped in a human body, Jacob (George MacKay) eats, sleeps, and lives like a wolf – much to the shock of his family. When he’s sent to a clinic, Jacob and his animal-bound peers are forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of ‘curative’ …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel HOUSE OF GUCCI review

About the film (courtesy of United Artists Releasing): Inspired by the shocking true story of the family empire behind the Italian fashion house Gucci – Spanning three decades of love, betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately murder, we see what a name means, what it’s worth, and how far a family will go for control. What …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel ANTLERS review

About the film (courtesy of Searchlight Pictures): A small-town Oregon teacher (Keri Russell) and her brother (Jesse Plemons), the local sheriff, discover that a young student (Jeremy T. Thomas) is harboring a dangerous secret with frightening consequences. Scott Cooper hasn’t been in the director’s chair since helming the brutally violent western drama Hostiles (2017) starring …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel LAST NIGHT IN SOHO review

About the film (courtesy of Focus Features): In acclaimed director Edgar Wright’s psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel THE LAST DUEL review

About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Studios): Based on actual events, the film unravels long-held assumptions about France’s last sanctioned duel between Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon) and Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), two friends turned bitter rivals. When Carrouges’ wife, Marguerite (Jodie Comer), is viciously assaulted by Le Gris, a charge he denies, …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel DEAR EVAN HANSEN review

About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. The disclaimer that I must make …