Movie Reviews

Streamline

Director Tyson Wade Johnston Starring Levi Miller, Laura Gordon & Jason Isaacs Rated MA Score 6/6 A 15-year-old swimming prodigy self-destructs after his father is released from jail. For those of you who might be interested this is writer/director Tyson Wade Johnston’s debut feature length movie. Streamline is another entry in the long list of…

Irish Film Festival – The Bright Side

Director Ruth Meehan Starring Gemma-Leah Devereux, Siobhán Cullen & Karen Egan Rated M Score 6/6 A stand-up comedian’s life changes when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. The Bright Side is being screened as part of the 2021 Irish Film Festival. For those of you who might interested apparently The Bright Side was inspired by…

She’s All That

Director Robert Iscove Starring Freddie Prinze Jr. & Rachael Leigh Cook Rated M Score 3/6 A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school’s prom queen. Okay, I recently reviewed He’s all That which currently on Netflix and I suppose considering that She’s al That is also…

Infinite

Director Antoine Fuqua Starring Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor & Sophie Cookson Rated M Score 4.5/6 A man discovers that his hallucinations are actually visions from past lives. First things first for those of you who might be interested Infinite was adapted D. Eric Maikranz’s 2009 novel The Reincarnationist Papers. Okay, based purely on the action…

Irish Film Festival – Boys from County Hell

Director Chris Baugh Starring Jack Rowan, Nigel O’Neill, Louisa Harland Rated M Score 6/6 Set in Six Mile Hill, a fictional backwater town, whose only claim to fame is that Bram Stoker stayed there once and based Dracula on the local legend of Abhartach. When Abhartach is awakened after the cairn over his remains is…

Sweet Girl

Director Brian Andrew Mendoza Starring Jason Momoa, Isabela Merced & Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Rated MA Score 5/6 Devoted family man Ray Cooper, vows justice against the pharmaceutical company responsible for pulling a potentially life-saving drug from the market just before his wife dies from cancer. But when his search for the truth leads to a deadly…

Greenland

Director Ric Roman Waugh Starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin and Roger Dale Floyd Rated M Score 3/6 A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity, his estranged wife Allison, and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary. Amid terrifying news accounts of cities…

Wrath of Man

Director Guy Ritchie Starring Jason Statham, Jeffrey Donovan, Holt McCallany & Scott Eastwood Rated MA Score 4.5/6 A cold and mysterious character working at a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week. English-language remake of the 2004 French thriller Cash Truck (Le convoyeur) directed by Nicolas…

What If… Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?

Director Bryan Andrews Starring Jeffrey Wright, Hayley Atwell & Josh Keaton Rated PG Score 3.5/6 When Steve Rogers is seriously injured, Peggy Carter becomes the world’s first super soldier. Okay, considering that the MCU spans across 22 movies (and even more animated movies) across 13 years sometimes it seems that Marvel wouldn’t be doing their…

Dot and the Kangaroo

Director Yoram Gross Starring Barbara Frawley, Joan Bruce, Spike Milligan Rated G Score 6/6 A young girl gets lost in the Australian bush and befriends a kangaroo. For those of you who might be interested, before we get to far into things a little history. Dot and the Kangaroo was originally an 1899 Australian children’s…