Movie Reviews
From 35mm to Super8, from Digital to 3D, be it CGI, green-screen, multiple-exposure or even stop-motion, international, domestic, experimental, controversial, we review it all, with moxie!
Automata
Review by: Jay Andrews-Tracy Rating: 4 out of 5 Automata is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. It is a science fiction movie about...
Flatliners (2017)
Review by: Jay Andrews-Tracy This film is a remake of the original movie of the same name. All things considered, this is not a bad remake either,...
Bohemian Rhapsody
Reviewed by Jay Andrews Tracy ‘Mama, just killed a man/Put a gun against his head Pulled my trigger, now he's dead/Mama, life had just begun But now...
Never Leave Alive
Review by: Jay Andrews-Tracy Never Leave Alive also known as 3 Hours Before Dead is a budget action movie starring WWE’s John Hennigan, who plays...
SDIFF 2015 presents Western Religion
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 7 out of 10 In 1879, gunfighters, cardsharps and all manner of mysterious men (and women) come together in...
SDAFF 2011 presents A Boy and His Samurai
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 8 A samurai from the Edo time period of Japan time travels to modern day Tokyo and affects the lives of a...
SDAFF 2011 presents Shaolin
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 8 In a time where warring feudal lords seek to separate China into their individual pieces, strife...
SDAFF 2013 presents How To Use Guys With Secret Tips
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 7.5 Downtrodden Choi Bo-Na is stuck in the mans world of advertising, until a chance encounter with a manic...
Saw V
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 7 Jigsaw’s legacy lives on in Detective Hoffman, who is being suspected for complicity by the survivor of...
Fullmetal Alchemist The Sacred Star of Milos
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Review Rating: 7 The Elric Brothers are back, with a whole bunch of their friends, to free the Milos people from their...
A Wakefield Project
Reviewed by: Jay Andrews Tracy A Wakefield Project is a interesting horror movie about two friends, Reese (Dennis Andres) and Eric (Anthony Bewlz),...
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Reviewed by Steve McGowan Ant-Man and the Wasp is the one of the first MCU movies post-Infinity War, but the film doesn't take place after the...
Independence Day Resurgence
by Steve McGowan It's the summer of sequels (when is it not?), and now we have the follow-up movie to the original Independence Day from 20 years...
Bumblebee
Reviewed by Steve McGowan Review Rating: 4.5 out of 5 giant robots The Transformers live action film franchise was a series of popular but schlocky...
Shazam!
Reviewed by Steve McGowan Upon saying that word of power, young Billy Batson magically turns into an adult superhero. That's the premise of Shazam!,...
Godzilla King of the Monsters
Reviewed by Steve McGowan I am the kind of nerd who likes the idea of kaiju movies, but whenever I watch one I often feel massively underwhelmed....
Terminator Dark Fate
Reviewed by Steve McGowan Every few years, the owners of the Terminator franchise decides to make another film about time-traveling robotic...
Earthquake Bird
Reviewed by Steve McGowan Earthquake Bird is a film about a young white woman named Lucy Fly (Alicia Vikander) living in Tokyo as an expatriate who...
Ad Astra
Reviewed by Steve McGowan I went into Ad Astra not knowing very much about the picture besides what the trailers reveal; a science fiction film...
Skyline
Review Rating: 6 Tentacles Focusing on a group of friends stranded in Los Angeles, Skyline tells a story of strange descending lights that turn out...