Category: -Movie Review
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Rewatch Reviews – Arthur Christmas
First off, I LOVE Arthur Christmas! It is funny, entertaining, and endlessly re-watchable. The talent on display is awesome and the attention to detail is breathtaking. There are so many little things that you either see for the first time when you watch it, or can point out to other people who haven’t spotted it. It’s…
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Movie Review – Come Play
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Come Play wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either. We’ll break this one down into what was right and what was wrong. Right: Azhy Robertson, playing Oliver did fantastic. I can see him doing well for himself. The concept of the monster was new. I liked how they used today’s technology to bring it to…
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Movie Review – All My Life
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All My Life could have been a great movie. Jessica Rothe and Harry Shum Jr did an excellent job in the lead roles, but where it fell flat was the supporting cast. They all felt forced and not properly given enough of a backstory to feel something for them. The story itself was heartbreaking. Rothe…
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Classic Movie Rewatch Review – Trading Places
I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve watched Trading Places over the years, and not always as a Christmas film. It’s a comedy first and foremost, then it’s a social satire, and only then is it a holiday film. For the sake of the half dozen or so people who haven’t seen it,…
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Indie Movie Review: HAM – A Musical Memoir
If you’re like me, you’ve missed live theater during the pandemic. You watched Hamilton and you’re looking forward to Netflix’s adaptation of The Prom. May I suggest a one-man show that may not be on your radar yet? It’s called HAM: A Musical Memoir and it’s playing in virtual theaters now. Starting January 7, it…
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Christmas Indie Movie Review – Middleton Christmas
Middleton Christmas — or There’ll Always Be Christmas — as it’s sometimes now called is, I will be blunt, not my cup of tea. It might have appealed to my mother were she still alive, so maybe it’s a generational thing. She might have overlooked the things that irked me, but I found them too…
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Christmas Indie Movie Review – Cup Of Cheer
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Cup Of Cheer is, allegedly, a comedy. There are moments of incongruity, surprise, repetition, inversion, exaggeration, and slapstick. There’s only one thing missing and that, sadly, is anything remotely funny. It is supposed to be a parody of the archetypal, traditional Christmas film. Cup Of Cheer starts with a big city journalist, Mary (Storm Steenson) being sent to…
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A US Classic From A UK Perspective – A Christmas Story
A little background… At the start of the decade a change in circumstances meant I had a lot of spare time during the run up to Christmas. So what was I going to do? What I did was got hold of a load of Christmas films and thoroughly got into the spirit of the season.…
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All About A Christmas Carol
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So Many Retellings Of A Short Story Scrooge, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner… let’s make a Christmas favourite of him! I’m going to luxuriate in the knowledge that I’ll be talking about a story that is nearly two centuries old and, therefore, will be paying no heed to the usual dread…
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New Movie Review – Half Brothers
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Half Brothers exceeded my expectations, especially since the trailers didn’t show you the depth of the movie. There was a lot more to it than a quirky comedy. The dynamics of the brothers was my favorite part, but the story also caught my attention. It was a deep tug on your heart strings kind of…