Archive for the ‘Reviews of movies’ Category
Black Adam
{4/5} “Go and protect international stability someplace else.” Black Adam, released in 2022 Kahndaq was a thriving country thousands of years ago, and now it’s been taken over by mercenaries. Adrianna finds the Crown of Sabbac, which has great power, hidden in a mountain. In order to get away from the mercenaries who will kill […]
Mary Mack: The Housing Market is the Worst
{5/5} “Every time you play the recorder it calls the devil.” The Housing Market is the Worst, released in 2019 Mary Mack mentions how difficult it is to get a mortgage. She describes how difficult it was to teach music to youngsters. She has a funny way of thinking positively. She talks about an 81-year-old […]
See How They Run
{5/5} “That’s the ski that he took in the face, sir. I’m afraid it was downhill from there.” See How They Run, released in 2022 Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is doing well as a play and they decide to make it into a movie. The director, Leo, is killed and Inspector Stoppard and Constable Stalker […]
Vesper
{3.5/5} “It isn’t human. It won’t feel a thing.” Vesper, released in 2022 Vesper trudges through muck to look for things that are edible to keep her and her father alive. Her father is sick, and can’t get out of bed. She sometimes trades her blood for what she needs. But when someone sabotages her […]
For the Love of Spock
{5/5} “There are 500 or 1000 who could play our characters effectively. There’s only one person who could play Mr. Spock.” — Walter Koenig For the Love of Spock, released in 2016 Leonard Nimoy worked for many years doing odd jobs while he did intermittent acting work. His first acting job that lasted more than […]
Disenchanted
{3.5/5} “I love festivals, we have them all the time where I come from. They were usually interrupted by evil forces of some kind, but when they weren’t they really brought people together.” Disenchanted, released in 2022 Giselle and Robert decide to move to Monroeville, but teenaged Morgan isn’t happy about it. Morgan doesn’t have […]
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
{5/5} “‘That was such a heartbreaking story.’ ‘I know, I hate stories where everybody lives.’” — Mantis & Drax The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, released in 2022 When Christmastime arrives on Knowhere, a band creates a song about it for Peter Quill but it’s not exactly accurate. Mantis and Drax get the idea […]
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
{5/5} “Sometimes books don’t find us until the right time.” The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, released in 2022 A. J. Fikry owns a bookstore. He had a copy of a rare book that he was planning to auction off and retire on the proceeds. But someone stole it. Or maybe he did something […]
Enola Holmes 2
{5/5} “‘Wait here, keep guard. If anyone comes, tell them you’re a lord or something.’ ‘I am a lord.’ ‘Well then, they’ll likely believe you.’” Enola Holmes 2, released in 2022 Enola has opened her own detective agency but most potential clients can’t get past the fact that she’s a girl. Just when she thinks […]
Castle in the Sky
{4/5} “The tree. We protected it, so it protects us.” Castle in the Sky, released in 1986 Pazu catches a girl who falls from the sky, Sheeta. Pirates are after her, for some reason. Sheeta has a crystal that lets her float — that might be the reason. Laputa is a legendary castle that floats […]