In a touching portrait of childhood friendship, the child-focused WE GROWN NOW captures the magic and innocence of childhood, even one where the two inseparable friends, elementary-school age boy...
Whew, it’s not even May, and the cinematic “body count” rises up considerably with another lone, determined warrior facing nearly insurmountable odds. I suppose this is more of the “JOHN ...
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This weekend brings a unique hybrid, a mixing of genres that has happened in the past but is somewhat rare. Perhaps it’s because one of the genres is the sports movie, more specifically tennis....
So, you say you want to see something different, offbeat, out-of-the-ordinarry on your next visit to the cinema (yes, maybe at a multiplex). Well, this weekend brings a true test for adventurous ...
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An old saying goes that “You can’t keep a good man down”. Well, despite the meager box office returns for last year’s big Dracula flicks, RENFIELD, and THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER, thi...
THE SHADOW OF THE DAY is a hauntingly beautiful tale of love and sacrifice in wartime, a story of two people unfolding against the backdrop of fast-shifting events in the run up to WWII. This is ...
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Since it seems that the big action blockbusters are taking over the multiplex far in advance of their usual Summertime occupancy, what’s out there for lovers of silent-movie style slapstick and...
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2024/04/hundreds-of-beavers-review/
“Babylon Berlin: Season One” is the beginning of a complex political crime period drama that has run for four seasons in Germany, with a fifth yet to come. It’s won a scheisse-load of award...
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2024/04/babylon-berlin-season-one-review/
“Bordertown: Season Two” continues another solid crime drama from the Scandinavian countries. It’s set in a Finnish town near the Russian border, so the subject crimes frequently come with ...
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2024/04/bordertown-season-2-review/
MATCHMAKING, one of the best comedies at this year’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, is a romantic comedy about a young Orthodox Jewish who seems to have everything a family could want in a mat...
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2024/04/matchmaking-st-louis-jewish-film-festival-review/
In Alice Rohrwacher’s Felliniesque tragicomic adventure tale LA CHIMERA, an English archaeologist-turned-tomb raider named Arthur (Josh O’Connor) leads a merry band of grave robbers who plund...
Writer/director Alex Garland explored the near future in two of his previous three features. In EX MACHINA he pondered the possibilities of emerging technology and the rise of sentient artificial...
Here comes another time-traveling fantasy, but with a twist. As the kids on Bandstand used to say to Dick Clark, “It’s a gotta’ good beat. You can dance to it”. Maybe you could even do th...
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The Japanese martial arts flick ONE-PERCENT WARRIOR (a/k/a ONE-PERCENTER) offers a couple of attractive features. First is the gritty realism of the fight sequences. The other is an unusually cle...
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2024/04/one-percent-warrior-review/
WICKED LITTLE LETTERS is one of those truth-stranger-than-fiction tales that remind us that people are weirder than we might think. Director Thea Sharrock opens her comedy/mystery tale with text ...
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2024/04/wicked-little-letters-review/
Since we’re now into the slow slide from Easter/Spring Break into the Summer cinema season, how about an MMA-style action thriller full of fights and daring escapes? Oh, you say we just had tha...
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2024/04/monkey-man-2024-review/
I’ve been a big Donnie Yen fan for years. This martial artist/actor has been a mainstay of Chinese action movies – comedic and dramatic – for decades. For Western audiences, he may be best ...
Being an avid fan of “old school” horror (almost a “monster kid” since I devoured “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine, built the Aurora model kits, and scooped up the Super 8 Castl...
http://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2024/03/late-night-with-the-devil-review/
Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) flees her abusive husband in Iran, along with her six-year-old daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia), and goes into hiding at an international women’s shelter in Australia,...
In 2024, could there be sure a thing as a “hip film studio” that would attract both filmmakers and adventurous filmgoers despite the subject matter or “creatives” (actors, directors, etc....