Reviews, Discussions, and Interviews – All from Nashville
Script Leaves Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson at the Altar in ‘Marry Me’ (Review)
With Valentine’s Day arriving on Monday, so comes the perfect time to release a romantic comedy in theaters (or streaming). Marry Me is one of two notable releases this weekend and certainly has the biggest appeal, thanks to its two leads Jennifer Lopez and Owen...
‘Death on the Nile’ is Occasionally Witty, but isn’t as Smart as it Thinks it is (Review)
We're in that early part of the year where most movies hitting the big screen will be forgotten by the end of the year. This isn't always the case (Black Panther, Get Out), and Death on the Nile looked like it had a chance to be an early year standout. Unfortunately,...
‘Flee’ is an Astonishing and Affecting Achievement in Animation and Documentary (Review)
From the documentaries Apollo 11 and Amazing Grace to foreign narratives like The Worst Person In The World and the 2020 Best Picture Oscar winner Parasite, Neon Films has cemented itself as a film distributor willing to give work from documentarians and foreign...
Kevin’s 2022 Sundance Film Festival Log: Part 2
The first weekend of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival bestowed a handful of great to promising films that covered timely issues such as race relations and a man’s cultural definition, while other movies served as poignant and thoughtful observations of what it is to...
Kevin’s 2022 Sundance Film Festival Log: Part 1
2022 marks the first year that Fox Force Five News covers the Sundance Film Festival, and as of this writing, the iconic festival has brought about a solid batch of promising films for casual audiences and cinephiles alike to seek out and keep their eyes peeled for...
Sean’s Top 10 Movies of 2021: CODA, Nightmare Alley & The Harder They Fall
You may have noticed that last year I didn't post a best of 2020 list. When the pandemic hit almost two years ago, it left me depressed and sapped my passion for writing movie reviews. I’m sure others experienced similar feelings related to what they loved doing when...
‘Parallel Mothers’ is A Provocative Drama Propelled by Powerful Performances (Review)
Since the late 1970s, filmmaking auteur Pedro Almodovar has received praise from critics and audiences in his home country of Spain as well as in North America, first breaking through stateside with Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown in 1988, then again with...
Kevin’s Top 10 Movies of 2021: Memoria, Licorice Pizza & West Side Story
2021 was a year that brought about strife not unlike the kind America went through over the course of 2020, from a seemingly ceaseless pandemic and an ongoing standstill between political parties over a myriad of issues to tensions amongst subgroups of society and a...
‘Scream’ is the Year’s First Bloody Good Time at the Theater (Review)
Who says you can’t release a good horror film outside the fall season? As awards season picks up steam and audiences start to slowly come off their high from last month’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, we set our sights on the New Year and the exciting film slate ahead....