Everything is still awesome as The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part takes to the big screen nearly five years to the date following its predecessor. A quick prologue catches us up to speed about what has taken place during the last five years. The city of Bricksburg is no more. It’s been replaced by the doomsday-esque Apocalypseburg following the city’s tragic demise. No matter what decisions that the master builders make, they are no…
"The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part"Author: Danielle Solzman
Danielle Solzman
The important thing to know going into Light From Light is that it is not a horror movie despite the fact that a character is a paranormal investigator. Sheila (Marin Ireland) has been having dreams since she was a child. These dreams aren’t just any ordinary dreams as she is sometimes able to see the future. Sheila works behind the counter at a car rental service by day while also working as a paranormal investigator. …
"Sundance 2019: Light from Light"
The Sunlit Night frustratingly blends together two very different stories that don’t quite work together for taking place in a single feature film. Frances (Jenny Slate) could have had an excellent painter’s residency. Unfortunately for her, she passes up the opportunity in order to travel with her boyfriend, Robert, to Japan. Her plans soon become moot when Robert breaks up with her on vacation. Forced back home without a choice, it becomes a comedy of…
"Sundance 2019: The Sunlit Night"
To say that Arctic is a very intense survival thriller wouldn’t be an understatement because this is a film that takes us along for a worrisome ride from start to finish. After surviving a plane crash, Overgård (Mads Mikkelsen) is living on his own while fighting for survival. He has the same daily routine, which includes catching fish and cranking up a machine in the hope of finding rescue. One day, rescue comes or so we…
"Arctic: A Very Intense Survival Thriller"
There’s no doubt that Paradise Hills has a lot of ambition with a strong feminist story it wishes to tell but manages to miss the mark somewhere along the way. The film starts with Uma (Emma Roberts) getting married to a mysterious man that we hardly know anything about. Almost immediately as any action takes place, the film jumps straight to two months earlier. This allows us to dive into the backstory of how we…
"Sundance 2019: Paradise Hills"
Before You Know It manages to successfully blend the dysfunctional family comedy and soap opera genres together with a Jewish sensibility. Imagine living in your childhood apartment with your father, sister, and niece. This is the situation that Rachel Gurner (Rachel Gurner)–stage manager at her family’s downstairs theatre–finds herself in. The situation is one that isn’t so great for dating as Rachel learns rather quickly. Together with sister Jackie (Jen Tullock) and father (Mandy Patinkin),…
"Sundance 2019: Before You Know It"
Mike Wallace Is Here profiles late CBS broadcaster Mike Wallace through archival footage while also displaying the importance of investigative journalism. “A nation’s press is a good yardstick of a nation’s health,” Mike Wallace once recited. Before the days of a gazillion cable news networks with niche programming, Wallace was the newsman who asked the hard-hitting questions. The sad reality is that this is seemingly a bygone era. Yet this film’s premiere at Sundance comes…
"Sundance 2019: Mike Wallace Is Here"
Jillian Bell’s performance in the inspirational Brittany Runs A Marathon shows that the improv comedian is ready to take on the role of being a leading actress. A native of Pennsylvania, Brittany Forgler (Jillian Bell) relocated to New Year but life had something else in mind for her. When we first meet her, she’s working at a theater where she tries to liven up the joint through her sense of humor. The only problem with this…
"Sundance 2019: Brittany Runs A Marathon"
Blending comedy with zombies down under, Little Monsters offers so much fun in viewing that it is sure to become a cult classic on the midnight circuit. Following a fight with girlfriend Sara (Nadia Townsend), Dave Anderson (Alexander England) decides to move in with his sister, Tess (Kat Stewart), and her son, Felix (Diesel La Torraca). His band hasn’t been together in some six years so all he does is just play music outside in…
"Sundance 2019: Little Monsters"
Greener Grass takes us to a type of suburbs that we’ve never really seen presented on screen before but the laughs keep coming non-stop. To the outside word, this particular Midwest-inspired suburb is a strikingly weird one. It’s almost as if everybody lives a suburb that’s not known to the outside world. Chances are, you’ve never seen a neighborhood that behaves in this manner. Instead of driving cars, everybody drives golf carts instead. Every single…
"Sundance 2019: Greener Grass"