Searchlight Pictures
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Suncoast Review- A Good Coming Of Age Film With A Realistic Backdrop
The Sundance Film Festival is a good place for burgeoning filmmakers to get their first taste of fame. If they have a film that resonates with audiences like last year’s Past Lives or Coda from a few years ago it… Continue reading
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Poor Things Review- A Wildly Wacky and Weird Coming of Age Sci Fi Fantasy
Yorgos Lanthimos is one of those directors who isn’t for everybody. His films The Lobster, The Favorite, Dogtooth, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer are a bit of an eclectic bunch of films. He tends to put a weird… Continue reading
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All of Us Strangers Review (Miami GEMS 2023)- A Conundrum Of A Film If I’ve Ever Seen One
There are films that when you watch them leave you scratching your head. Or thinking about them days afterward. All of Us Strangers is one of those kinds of films. It’s an existential journey through love and kindness with a… Continue reading
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Theater Camp Review- An Attempt at Making Theater Camp Funny and Relatable Fails to Elicit Laughs or Enjoyment
I’m not too proud or ashamed to say I wasn’t a theater camp kid when I was young. My parents never sent me or my siblings to any camp for that matter. This just wasn’t what we did. I did… Continue reading
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My Top 10 Films of 2023… So Far! Half Way Through the Year
By Dan Skip Allen Honorable Mentions: (In No Particular Order) Chevalier, Creed 3, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Elemental, Fast X, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Mario Brothers Movie The, Path of the Panther, Tetris, Transformers: Rise… Continue reading
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Flamin Hot Review- Another Terrific Very Authentic Period Biopic
In the last couple of months or so a handful of films have come out that depict the behind-the-scenes or the origin of an item or a scenario. Films like Tetris, Air, and Blackberry. The latest in that regard is… Continue reading
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Chevalier Review- A Breakout Performance from Harrison Jr. and a New and Interesting Biopic
There have been a lot of films set during the colonial era in history. Most of them are about America and its revolution but occasionally there have been films that depict this era that isn’t about America. One of them… Continue reading
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Rye Lane Review- A Fun Rom-Com Where the Real Winner in the Film is Its Location Named in the Title
As documented in the series of films from Steve McQueen a couple of years ago London, England has a neighborhood that is mainly made up of island people from Jamaica, the Bahamas, and other island municipalities of Great Britain. Rye… Continue reading
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Empire of Light Review
Sam Mendez has been on fire lately directing two of the last three James Bond films, Skyfall and Specter, and nearly winning a second-best picture Academy Award for 1917 his WWI epic. Which looked like it was filmed as one… Continue reading
From the Fourth Row! 