Free Guy
When Ryan Reynolds narrates anything, I will always hear Deadpool. . Perfect ensemble cast: 🎭 Best role for Lil Rel Howery’s hyperbolic personality. 🎭 Put Utkarsh Ambudkar in everything. More of him in…
Shang-Chi and the
Legend of the Ten Rings
Picturesque. "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" is a CGI fantasy with highly skilled choreography and a formidable villain in 梁朝偉 Tony Chiu-Wai Leung’s “Xu Wenwu.” (I need…
Candyman
I generally do not enjoy horror films, but I liked "Candyman" (2021). . I was able to comprehend the director Nia DaCosta's cinematic aims from the jump. The dragging, upward…
Really Love
Great ensemble cast. . Blair Underwood still fine. Michael Ealy been fine. Had a thing for Tristan Mack Wilds for a good lil’ minute. He still fine. Kofi Siriboe is…
The Suicide Squad
James Gunn is really good at his job. He knows storytelling. It’s great when the director and the writer of a film are the same person because there’s a specificity…
Nine Days
Winston Duke was magnetic. I did not know what to expect, but he gave his all to this role. He plays Will, a man who adjudicates the pre-lives of humans…
Respect
Hmmm. . . . . . . . . . Firstly and such, I’d love it if biographical motion pictures based on musicians began to break away from convention. Linear…
A Concerto is a Conversation
In “A Concerto is a Conversation,” film composer and jazz pianist Kris Bowers interviewed his 91-year-old grandfather Horace Bowers Sr., who chronicled his life from Jim Crow-era Florida young-in' to…
Homebird
“Homebird” is great because I explored multiple points of reference to appreciate it. It does a lot of heavy-lifting artistically with a common theme—acclimating to a new, big town on…
NANDO
Simple. Poetic. This short helped me find my center. I cried a bit. It’s simple—a butterfly emerges from the cocoon. The cocoon’s surrounding makes or breaks that being’s…