Top Posts & Pages
- BOX OFFICE: "Challengers" rise, "Unsung Hero" impresses, "Boy Kills World," including potential audience
- Movie Review: Tennis Threesome serves up a thoroughly modern "love match" -- "Challengers"
- Movie Review: Korean experts on the uneasy dead? Call them "Exhuma"
- Movie Review: The "Civil War" so many have been asking for, but here on The Big Screen
- Movie Review: Matthew Modine takes "delinquents" bike riding "Hard Miles" to the Grand Canyon
- Classic Film Review: "Leon: The Professional" (1994), as Twisted as You Remember It
- Movie Review: "Teacher"
- Movie Review: Tom Sizemore suffers through the Cinematically Interminable -- "Impuratus"
- Netflixable? Reindeer herders face a "Stolen" way of life in this Swedish thriller
- Netflixable? A charming story of a French girl and her wolf -- "Vicky and Her Mystery (Mystère)"
Find a Movie Review
Like Movie Nation on Facebook
Monthly Archives: February 2019
Movie Review: Here’s an excuse to tap out of “Chokehold”
One-time “Starship Trooper” Casper Van Dien gets off easy in “Chokehold,” a bloody, bone-snapping B-movie set in the world of off-the-books “no rules” mixed martial arts brawling in Arkansas. Van Dien’s character is killed off in the first act. Top … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: Here’s an excuse to tap out of “Chokehold”
Preview: “X-Men: Dark Phoenix”
Here’s the movie that will probably own June. As this latest X-Men adaptation brings the gang back one more time and opens June 7.
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Preview: “X-Men: Dark Phoenix”
Movie Review: Teen sexual confusion earns a tender treatment in “Giant Little Ones”
Far too many movies about teens, sexuality and growing up relegate the adults to afterthoughts. The kids have to work it all out for themselves, because in the movie’s universe, the grownups are distracted, self-absorbed, overworked or worse. The moment … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: Teen sexual confusion earns a tender treatment in “Giant Little Ones”
Netflixable? “Losers” shows us the darkness, and the rewards of coming up in short in sport’s biggest moments
The heavyweight boxer who took a title, but so wished to not be a fighter that every time he stepped into the ring,, he”wished that the city got hit by a massive blackout, or a f—–g tornado,” anything to save … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Netflixable? “Losers” shows us the darkness, and the rewards of coming up in short in sport’s biggest moments
“Green Book” wins Best Picture and the World is Coming to an End
People are still working themselves into a tizzy of outrage over who winds up winning Hollywood’s annual popularity contest and laughably inaccurate recognition of cinematic excellence. Spike Lee reminds us that he hasn’t mellowed with age, taking all the acceptance … Continue reading
Movie Review: “The Hours and Times,” restored and re-issued alternate history of Lennon and Epstein
Long long ago, before he became a Harry Potter character or was immortalized on “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” before his reliable-Liverpool character actor years in films and TV shows and films from “Finding Neverland” to “Robinson Crusoe” to “The Last Kingdom” … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Movie Review: “The Hours and Times,” restored and re-issued alternate history of Lennon and Epstein
Preview: Farming the way it used to be in the Neon documentary “The Biggest Little Farm”
A post plastic and chemical “return to farming the way it was,” holistic, green, climate saving? Or just a bunch of hippy dreamers? Cute trailer for this wide release doc.
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Preview: Farming the way it used to be in the Neon documentary “The Biggest Little Farm”
Preview: Elle Fanning still has “Teen Spirit?”
Saw this trailer attached to “Arctic” the other day. A mid-April release from Bleecker Street, this one seems poppish and could go either way. But we are intrigued.
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Preview: Elle Fanning still has “Teen Spirit?”
Preview: Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” finally has an official trailer
Screen Media is releasing this “cursed” production, which once starred Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp? It’ll reach theaters, then, not under a more prestigious studio’s banner. We know of a “one night only theatrical event,” which is Screen Media’s specialty, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Comments Off on Preview: Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” finally has an official trailer
Movie Review: “Run the Race”
When Tim Tebow gave up his NFL dream and turned to movie producing, it’s no surprise that he sought out a story about two things he knows — faith, and football. So don’t expect the movie that comes with his … Continue reading