Category: Drama
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Movie Review – Finding You
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Drama/romance movies, made for a young adult audience, typically litter the C-grade reviews here at RunPee. Let’s face it, these are not made to be award-winning movies. They are cheaply made movies that attract a limited audience not known for their discerning tastes. That said, Finding You did better than most in its genre. The…
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Classic Movie Review – The Milagro Beanfield War
The Milagro Beanfield War is a movie everyone should see to be delighted, laugh a lot, cry a little, and have a two hour cinematic fiesta. It’s chock full of chemistry between almost everyone, in a cast that encompasses an entire town, from children to the elderly. In fact, it’s the elders who steal the…
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Indie Movie Review – Undergods
Undergods was a surprise to me. I wasn’t a hundred percent sure what it was going to be about but, given it’s described as “an otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline”, I wasn’t expecting a lot of laughs. It turns out that Undergods is quite bleak but not relentlessly so, despite the fact that the linking…
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Movie Review – The Secret Garden (2020)
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I’m a huge Secret Garden fan and have been since a wonderful teacher read it chapter by chapter to my rapt class in the 4th grade. It’s on my top ten list of favorite children’s books, and will be getting a reread review this year as I work through my stack of morning yoga reads.…
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A Take 2 Movie Review – Flesh Is Heir To
Recently, our UK RunPee reviewer Rob Williams reviewed this movie. The movie studio complained, so we decided to give it another look. I offered to watch it to give a counterpoint review. However, I didn’t enjoy the movie any more than he did. (Note: I have not yet read his review so as not…
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10 Movies About Authors That Will Inspire You To Write
There’s a reason good movies about authors aren’t common; while their creations can be an awe-inspiring journey into fantastical lands or a hard look into fictitious or non-fictitious pasts, the process itself lacks the excitement big screen productions need to succeed. The anger and frustration of producing written works is internalised and difficult to express,…
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Sundance Film Festival Movie Review – One for the Road
When Bong Joon Ho won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film last year for Parasite, he said, “”Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” I love this sentiment. As a teenager, I was lucky to have a mother willing to take me…
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Sundance Film Festival Movie Review – Marvelous and the Black Hole
What were you like at thirteen? This film may bring back some of the pain and frustration of your earlier years. Yet it’s a fun, uplifting watch. Perhaps this year’s Peanut Butter Falcon. Miya Cech plays Sammy, a teenager living with her father and sister and coping with her mother’s death. When she’s forced to…
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Sundance Film Festival Movie Review – How It Ends
If you knew it was the last day before the world ended, how would you spend it? That’s the question How It Ends explores. And the answers are funny, touching, and surprising. The movie reminded me of the first half of Seeking a Friend For the End of the World, which which deals with similar…
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Sundance Film Festival Movie Review – Mass
Mass may be the most emotional film you sit through this year. But it’s worth it to see four great actors at the top of their game. In this powerful movie, the parents of a school shooter and the parents of one of his victims meet to try to get some closure. It’s an…
