Top Posts & Pages
- Movie Review: "Worth the Wait?" Worth tracking down
- Documentary Review: Sate your Bond Appetite with Music -- "The Sound of 007"
- Movie Review: "Der Tiger" ("The Tank") Lumbers down a Too-Familiar Path
- Classic Film Review: The Tragedy of Thatcherism as it Happened -- "Looks and Smiles" (1981)
- Movie Review: Love, Sex and Steroids in Affluent Italia -- "Love Me, Love Me"
- Movie Review: This Romantic Corner of Tuscany is "No Place to be Single"
- Movie Review: Faith & Family meet in a Vegas Brew Pub -- "God & Beer"
- Documentary Review: A "Caterpillar" figures a change in Eye Color will Make him a Butterfly
- Series Review: "House of Guinness" is a Pint in a Gilded Gallon-sized Glass
- Movie Review: Good Gawd, Gosling! "Project Hail Mary"
Find a Movie Review
Like Movie Nation on Facebook
Tag Archives: Reviews
Classic Film Review: Weir, Ford and McGillis make The Greatest Romantic Thriller of the ’80s — “Witness” (1985)
The barn-raising scene in Peter Weir’s masterpiece, “Witness,” is one of the most perfect pieces of pure cinema the movies have ever produced. Beautifully conceived, shot (by future Oscar winner John Seale), edited (by Oscar winner Thom Noble) and scored … Continue reading
Movie Review: As “Indie” as they come — “AJ Goes to the Dog Park”
“AJ Goes to the Dog Park” is a cheerfully cheesy semi-surreal indie film about what one dopey chihuahua owner will go through to get his dog park back. It’s twee in the extreme, with the occasional sophisticated effect — “No … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged fantastic-fest, fargo, indie-comedy, movies, north-dakota, pirate-jokes, Reviews, toby-jones
Comments Off on Movie Review: As “Indie” as they come — “AJ Goes to the Dog Park”
Netflixable? Tyler Perry’s Back in Drag for “Madea’s Destination Wedding”
You just know that what few conditions Netflix probably had in the big fat contract it gave the prolific Tyler Perry, one of them was “Give us a Madea movie every now and then.” Because even if his hilariously outspoken … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged madea-review, movies, netflix, Reviews, the-browns, tyler-perry
Comments Off on Netflixable? Tyler Perry’s Back in Drag for “Madea’s Destination Wedding”
Netflixable? Dutch Duo are on the case as “Almost Cops”
The Dutch word for “buddy picture” is “vriendenfilm.” They take their shot at the genre with a cop/buddy action comedy, “Almost Cops,” whose title in Dutch is “Bad Boas,” a cute pun. That’s funnier than anything in this stunningly unsurprising … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged action, buddy-picture, cop-comedy, dutch-action-comedy, movie-reviews, movies, netflix, Reviews
Comments Off on Netflixable? Dutch Duo are on the case as “Almost Cops”
Netflixable? A “Trainwreck” documentary remembers “The Real ‘Project X'”
It was just a movie, but those of us who saw it and brought an adult persective to reviewing “Project X” back in 2012 picked up on the ante it was upping. Decades of raucus youth party pictures, from “Animal … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged film, movies, netflix, project-x, Reviews, television, trainwreck-review, writing
Comments Off on Netflixable? A “Trainwreck” documentary remembers “The Real ‘Project X'”
Netflixable? Muay Thai vs Zombies — “Ziam”
Nothing to see here, just another country and another culture coping with the Zombie Apocalypse. “Ziam” is basically a test for those of us committed to watching any thriller featuring Muay Thai martial artists facing and dispensing with hordes of … Continue reading
Movie Review: Korean Catholics have their own way of Exorcising Demons — “The Priests”
Well Go USA is about to unleash the sequel to the Korean exorcism thriller “The Priests,” titled “Dark Nuns,” in North America. So they figured they’d put the original 2015 hit out there for people who want to catch. Not … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged exorcism-movie, horror, korea, movies, review, Reviews
Comments Off on Movie Review: Korean Catholics have their own way of Exorcising Demons — “The Priests”
Movie Review: Offerman’s a “Sovereign” who thinks God and Guns and misreading the Constitution can beat Banks, Courts, Cops and The System
Smart, tense and thought provoking, “Sovereign” is a movie of its moment — thirty years of American moments. An “inspired by true events” thriller built around a stunning performance by Nick Offerman, it offers insights into Red State America and … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged fascist-police, film, movies, offerman, red-state-america, Reviews, right-wingers, war-on-banks
Comments Off on Movie Review: Offerman’s a “Sovereign” who thinks God and Guns and misreading the Constitution can beat Banks, Courts, Cops and The System
Movie Review: Stormare wants Kinnear to find Duhamel, who’s gone “Off the Grid”
Career bit player Ricky Russert, who was in “I, Tonya” and TV’s “Outer Banks” and even the recent “MacGuyer” reboot , gets a featured role as a villain in “Off the Grid,” a Josh Duhamel star-vehicle about a scientist who … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged b-movie, greg-kinnear, josh-duhamel, movies, peter-stormare, Reviews
Comments Off on Movie Review: Stormare wants Kinnear to find Duhamel, who’s gone “Off the Grid”
Movie Review: You’ll feel “Sweet Relief” when this inept indie thriller is over
It’s a little known truth of indie film sets that the “indier” the film, the less likely you’ll be able to tell the cast from the crew when visiting the shoot. I came to this conclusion covering such low budget, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, previews, profiles and movie news
Tagged amherst, bad-movie, film, horror, indie-film, massachusetts, movie-review, movies, Reviews
Comments Off on Movie Review: You’ll feel “Sweet Relief” when this inept indie thriller is over
Movie Nation 