About the film (courtesy of Columbia Pictures): The ultimate wish fulfilment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional race car driver. Based on a true story. Gran Turismo is a 2023 biographical sports drama film directed by Neill Blomkamp and written …
Tag: Drama
Time for a Reel HAUNTED MANSION review
About the film (courtesy of Disney): Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, Haunted Mansion is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. Haunted Mansion is a fun and spooky film that is sure to delight fans of the …
Time for a Reel OPPENHEIMER review
About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): Oppenheimer is an IMAX-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it. Oppenheimer is a complex and challenging film that tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who led the …
Time for a Reel ASTEROID CITY review
About the film (courtesy of Focus Features): World-changing events spectacularly disrupt the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention in an American desert town circa 1955. Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City will be sure to divide audiences. For big fans of Anderson’s work, it’s a feast for the senses, with beautiful visuals, meticulous production design, and …
Time for a Reel CREED III review
About the film (courtesy of MGM): After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) has been thriving win his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian (Jonathan Majors), resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in …
Time for a Reel LUTHER: THE FALLEN SUN review
About the film (courtesy of Netflix): A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary. It’s hard …
Time for a Reel MISSING review
About the film (courtesy of Screen Gems): When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s …
Time for a Reel BABYLON review
About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. Maybe not quite the best, but Babylon certainly qualifies as “saving my wildest write-up for last in 2022.” As we …
Time for a Reel GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY review
About the film (courtesy of Netflix): Benoit Blanc returns to peel back the layers in a new Rian Johnson whodunit. This fresh adventure finds the intrepid detective at a lavish private estate on a Greek island, but how and why he comes to be there is only the first of many puzzles. Blanc soon meets …
Time for a Reel AMSTERDAM review
About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Studios): An original crime epic about three close friends who find themselves at the center of one of the most shocking secret plots in American history. David O. Russell assembles a stellar cast in this 1930s-set comedy drama that uncovers and sheds light upon one of America’s more …