Classics Review: Funny Girl

In 1964, a Broadway musical called, “Funny Girl” opened to the public. The story’s bases on the life and career of Fanny Brice. A Jewish-American comedian and singer gains fame and develops a relationship with a gambler. Barbra Streisand played Fanny in the Broadway version prior to a film adaptation gaining more recognition. She was […]

Flashback Review: Forrest Gump

In 1986, Winston Groom published a novel titled, Forrest Gump.” Set in the ’50s to early ’80s, it’s about a guy named, Forrest. He has a low IQ who goes on adventures, meets historical figures, becomes rich, enlists in the Vietnam War, inadvertently inspires others to come up with innovative ideas and tries to win […]

Classics Review: How the West Was Won

Epic films in the 1960s were a trend throughout the entire decade. Notable ones from 1960-1969 such as “Spartacus,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World,” “My Fair Lady,” “Doctor Zhivago,” “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “The Dirty Dozen,” “Once Upon a Time in the West” & “The Wild Bunch.” […]

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan Kenobi’s mini-series officially streamed in 2022 (same year Top Gun: Maverick came out) on Disney Plus. It received positive reviews from critics. As a Star Wars fan, I didn’t like it. Not one little bit. I haven’t watched a Star Wars series on Disney Plus since Obi-Wan. I got a lot of movies and […]

Beau Is Afraid (A24’s Flop Vol. 1 #1)

2022 was an epic year for independent film studio, A24. Brendan Fraser ultimately won an Oscar for “Best Actor” in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale.” “X” & “Pearl” became modern classics. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won “Best Picture.” One Year Later, Ari Aster (Midsommar) worked on his latest film called, “Beau Is Afraid.” Based on […]

Godzilla Minus One

After “Shin Godzilla” came out in 2016 as the first film in the Reiwa Era, Japanese production company Toho collaborated with Netflix to produce an anime trilogy. All three entries streamed in 2017-2018. I haven’t seen every single one. Four years after the anime trilogy ended, Toho confirmed they’re working on a live-action Godzilla movie […]