Hit Man: Movie Review

A devilishly smart crowd-pleaser.

An interesting distinction needs to be made with Hit Man: It’s based on a real person, but it’s not based on a true story. Meaning, the main character and all his various personas and jobs and identities – all true, but the main plot and most of the action of the second half, all fabricated. Writer and director Richard Linklater has spent his career throwing in a few ‘based on a true story’ movies among his humorous and touching movies about the human existence. It's only fitting that Hit Man deftly combines the two.		2024 Directed by: Richard Linklater Screenplay by: Richard Linklater, Glen Powell, Skip Hollandsworth Starring: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona

End of the Rope: Movie Review

A western crime drama with a different historical flavour.

End of the Rope is a story about social justice, an historical crime thriller set during the early 1930s where the self-evident truth starts being at odds with the uncovered evidence and a community of desperate people starting to turn against their local law enforcement. It’s a low-budget independent feature telling a story arguably bigger than a film like this can handle.		2023 Directed by: Charlie Griak Screenplay by: Daniel Bielinski, Charlie Griak Based on the story by Dennis Johnson Starring: Joseph Gray, Chris Bylsma

The Image of You: Movie Review

The Image of You is a campy, pulpy, sultry, trashy thriller complete with identical twins, affairs, a dying mother, schizophrenia and murder, oh my! There is of course one big twist, but dilutes the movie into an unsatisfying mess. Sasha Pieterse stars as identical twins Anna and Zoe. Anna is the put-together, risk-averse twin; Zoe is the daring out-spoken twin seeking alcohol, drugs and other such pleasures.		2024 Directed by: Jeff Fisher Screenplay by: Adele Parks, Chris Sivertson Starring: Sasha Pieterse, Parker Young

Mother of the Bride: Movie Review

Mother of the Bride is a Netflix romantic comedy which has minimal romance, a few awful attempts at comedy, and has no clue who its target audience is. The center of the romance is Lana (Brooke Shields) a widowed single mother of Emma (Miranda Cosgrove) who is about to get married in Thailand. Lana is then thrown for a loop when she finds out the father of the groom is her old college flame Will (Benjamin Bratt).		2024 Directed by: Mark Waters Screenplay by: Robin Bernheim Starring: Brooke Shields, Benjamin Bratt

Unfrosted: Movie Review

A movie spoofing better movies to show how stupid it is.

Jerry Seinfeld, fresh off his “they don’t let us make comedy anymore” social media whining tour, has made a new comedy, Unfrosted, making fun of a whole bunch of better movies that came before it. Seinfeld who acts as producer, director, writer and star of the movie, belongs to a small set of people who likely never saw Air, or Blackberry or Tetris but complained about the idea of those movies being stupid. So he decided to make a stupider movie because he couldn’t see the humanity that was behind those movies.		2024 Directed by: Jerry Seinfeld Screenplay by: Jerry Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, Andy Robin Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Melissa McCarthy