By Opening tonight at a multiplex near us all: KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON(Dir. Martin Scorsese, 2023) Early on in Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated adaptation of David Grann’s 2017 nonfiction novel, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI,” one can sense that this will
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023) Review
FAMILY, GREECE, AND A DISJOINTED THREEQUEL Back in 2002, the surprise hit of the year was in the form of the family comedy movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. In a nutshell, the movie followed Fotoula “Toula” Portokalos, an American Greek woman who falls in love with a non-Greek male named
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Marty makes ‘em long. His most recent crime opus, Killers of the Flower Moon, based on David Grann’s 2017 nonfiction novel of the same name, explores themes that have long rumbled the conscience of the American auteur: corrosive greed, masculine rot, and the unsettling notion of violence as an accelerant
Shotgun Wedding (2023) Review
A “BULLET TO THE BRAIN” ROMANTIC COMEDY FLOP Within the realm of romantic comedies endeavors, a special little “niche” has been curated over the past several decades in the form of narratives of this genre’s presentation and tone in drumming those classic “rom com” feelings that surround a wedding
A Haunting in Venice (2023) Review
DEATH IS JUST THE BEGINNING… In 2017, actor / director Kenneth Branagh brought the classic and beloved murder mystery drama of novelist Agatha Christie to the silver screen with the release of Murder on the Orient Express. Directed and starring in the lead role by Branagh himself, the film,