As bullying in and outside of school intensifies for a teenage girl, she finds that she has few resources and feels alone in the world. As things escalate even further, a teenage boy who looks like an unlikely protector takes her under his wing so that she can get her schooling, take her placement test, and do well in life.
Category Archives: Movie Reviews
Sam & Mattie Make a Zombie Movie (2021)
Two best friends who love horror films and want to make their own are followed by one of their brothers to make a a documentary of their process. This is the documentary that follows these two friends who have more ideas than they can count and talent enough to make them happen. Just so happens they have Down Syndrome, but they’re not going to let that stop them.
Goodbye Honey (2021)
An exhausted long distance truck driver is met with an insistent young woman as she stops for the night. The young woman tells her she has been kidnapped and that someone is after her. As they piece together the story leading to this moment, the two of them find themselves under attack.
New Deal for Artists (1981)
When Franklin D. Roosevelt became president during the midst of the Great Depression, one of his most ambitious programs to combat the widespread poverty and unemployment of the day was the Works Progress Administration. This program was designed to upgrade and reinforce the national infrastructure, with a primary focus on construction projects involving roads, government buildings and bridges.
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Wrath of Man (2021)
A seemingly over-qualified man takes a position at an armored truck company and bids his time as the viewer discovers more and more about him and his reasons for being there.
Travels in the Congo (1927) [DVD]
In 1925, French filmmaker Marc Allégret’s traveled to the French Equatorial Africa colonial region with writer André Gide to create a documentary record of the customs and cultures of the diverse tribal groups within the region. Unlike other documentaries of that era, most notably Robert Flaherty’s “Nanook of the North” and “Moana,” Allégret took an observatory approach to the subject, capturing the everyday life and special events of the African people.
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Poms (2019)
The way Roger Ebert felt toward “Bucket List” is kind of the way I feel toward “Poms.” While it is a movie that’s meant to be life affirming and celebrating old age, “Poms” watches like a patronizing, exploitative last gasp of a once excellent actress. For a movie that is meant to be fun and light hearted, “Poms” is painfully depressing while also being embarrassingly bland and silly when we get down to it. I’m all for movies that confront the idea of ageism and that nothing can hold us back from accomplishing our dreams, but “Pom” is absolutely disingenuous to its very foundation.