Review: ‘Skyfire’The First Chinese Hollywood-level Disaster Film Fails To Heat Up
Tianhuo Island is as deadly as it is gorgeous. Unfortunately, a group of unsuspecting tourists and some suspecting scientists find this out the hard...
Review: ‘Outside The Wire’Anthony Mackie Is An Advanced Android Soldier In An Efficient Sci-Fi...
Netflix's latest "quick grab" action flick Outside the Wire is a hodge-podge of various military scare-tactic films. You've got Terminator and the fear of...
Review: ‘American Skin’Nate Parker Puts The Police On Trial In His Provocative, Unfocused, And...
Let's get one thing out of the way right now. American Skin, the first movie from writer/director/star Nate Parker since his Birth of a...
‘Sylvie’s Love’ Interviews: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, And Eugene Ashe On Crafting A Classic...
Sylvie's Love, out right now on Amazon Prime, is something that is a rare breed in Hollywood. A classic romance featuring two African-American leads,...
Review: ‘If Not Now, When?’Tamara Bass And Meagan Good’s Directorial Debut About Sisterhood Is...
For a little in the 80s and 90s, many popular movies Hollywood put out were “hood” films that seem to only want to showcase...
Review: ‘Redemption Day’Despite Plenty Of Familiar Faces, This Wartime Hostage Thriller Has Been Done...
Over the next year and a half, the movie release schedule is going to look very different from what we are used to. Since...
Review: ‘Herself’Phyllida Lloyd Returns With A Compassionate Drama About A Woman's Fight To Build...
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Middleburg Film Festival. Herself is available now on Amazon Prime Video.*
In a riveting early...
The Punch Drunk Critics ‘Best and Worst of 2020’
It's that time of year, dear reader. We join forces to give you insight into our top picks in a very strange year for...
The Movies I Forgot Were Released In 2020
Because time lost all meaning in 2020, going back to look back at the films pre-lockdown felt like being taken to another world. It...
Travis Hopson’s 20 Best Movies Of 2020
This year has sucked. You don't need me to rant and rave about it. We all know it did.
But the movie year? Well, that...