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March 5th, 2021 MOVIE: COMING 2 AMERICA STARRING: EDDIE MURPHY, ARSENIO HALL, WESLEY SNIPES, KIKI LAYNE, JERMAINE FOWLER, NOMZAMO MBATHA DIRECTED BY: CRAIG BREWER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) In Coming 2 America, I witnessed something I had never seen happen in a movie before. During the credits, we get the sometimes hilarious, […]

March 3rd, 2021 MOVIE: SON STARRING: ANDI MATICHAK, LUKE DAVID BLUMM, CRANSTON JOHNSON, EMILE HIRSCH DIRECTED BY: IVAN KAVANAGH AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) The horror genre is arguably the best, always inventive, and because you never know what kind of movie you are going to get. Sometimes the setting is a haunted […]

March 3rd, 2021 MOVIE: M.F.A. STARRING: FRANCESCA EASTWOOD, LEAH MCKENDRICK, PETER VACK, CLIFTON COLLINS JR. DIRECTED BY: NATALIA LEITE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) M.F.A. stands for Master of Fine Arts and it is the title of Natalia Leite’s 2017 movie, but this is not a course on how to use watercolors, […]

March 2nd, 2021 MOVIE: LUCKY STARRING: BREA GRANT, DHRUV UDAY SINGH, KAUSAR MOHAMMED DIRECTED BY: NATASHA KERMANI AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I absolutely love it when a movie is smart. Not just an inventive narrative or something new, but something that proves how talented a human can be. That description fits Natasha […]

March 4th, 2021 MOVIE: RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON STARRING: KELLY MARIE TRAN, AWKWAFINA, GEMMA CHAN, BENEDICT WONG, IZAAC WANG, DANIEL DAE KIM DIRECTED BY: DON HALL, CARLOS LOPEZ ESTRADA, PAUL BRIGGS, JOHN RIPA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) There is a familiarity with the story told in Raya and the Last Dragon […]

March 1st, 2021 MOVIE: THE STYLIST STARRING: NAJARRA TOWNSEND; BREA GRANT; MILLIE MILAN; LAURA KIRK DIRECTED BY: JILL GEVARGIZIAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) The Stylist director Jill Gevargizian, stars Najarra Townsend and Brea Grant are all favorites of mine in today’s horror genre circles, and after this movie, I hope they will […]

February 26th, 2021 MOVIE: TOM AND JERRY STARRING: CHLOE GRACE MORETZ, MICHAEL PENA, COLIN JOST, ROB DELANEY DIRECTED BY: TIM STORY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 STAR (Out of 4) It’s late Friday night and I am writing my review for Tom and Jerry out of spite. That’s right, I stayed up and watched this painful kids […]

February 26th, 2021 MOVIE: BILLIE EILISH: THE WORLD’S A LITTLE BLURRY STARRING: BILLIE EILISH, FINNEAS O’CONNELL, MAGGIE BAIRD, PATRICK O’CONNELL DIRECTED BY: R.J. CUTLER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) What I loved about R. J. Cutler’s documentary- Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry is that I was watching sooner than later. […]

February 24, 2021 MOVIE: MY ZOE STARRING: JULIE DELPY, RICHARD ARMITAGE, DANIEL BRUHL, GEMMA ARTERTON DIRECTED BY: JULIE DELPY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) In Julie Delpy’s My Zoe, the Before Trilogy actor and writer has made an incredibly unique kind of sci-fi film. It’s not robots or monsters or Star Wars or […]

February 26th, 2021 MOVIE: CHERRY STARRING: TOM HOLLAND, CIARA BRAVO, JACK REYNOR, FORREST GOODLUCK DIRECTED BY: ANTHONY RUSSO, JOE RUSSO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The rollout of the Russo brothers film Cherry was, to put it mildly, not good. The poster was released, but something happened with the file or graphic […]

February 23rd, 2021 MOVIE: CRISIS STARRING: GARY OLDMAN, ARMIE HAMMER, EVANGELINE LILLY, GREG KINNEAR, MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ, LUKE EVANS DIRECTED BY: NICHOLAS JARECKI AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 STAR (Out of 4) Besides the fact that Armie Hammer has been having his own personal crisis, a stream of strange text messages released where he suggests he enjoys eating […]

February 22nd, 2021 MOVIE: THE VIGIL STARRING: DAVE DAVIS, MENASHE LUSTIG, LYNN COHEN DIRECTED BY: KEITH THOMAS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) The Vigil is rooted in the traditions of the Jewish religion and creates a new segment of fears for audiences to have when it comes to watching the dead. It’s fascinating […]

February 18th, 2021 MOVIE: I CARE A LOT STARRING: ROSEAMUND PIKE, EIZA GONZALEZ, PETER DINKLAGE, DIANNE WIEST DIRECTED BY: J BLAKESON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) You could sum up director/writer J Blakeson’s I Care a Lot with three words: Ice cold cool. Here is a movie that has all the right […]

February 17th, 2021 MOVIE: THE VIOLENT HEART STARRING: JOVAN ADEPO, GRACE VAN PATTEN, LUKAS HAAS, MARY J. BLIGE DIRECTED BY: KEREM SANGA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) No matter how hard we try, the classics of literature, the Greek tragedies, they are embedded into the movies we watch. The Violent Heart has […]

February 17th, 2021 MOVIE: FLORA & ULYSSES STARRING: MATILDA LAWLER, ALYSON HANNIGAN, BEN SCHWARTZ, DANNY PUDI DIRECTED BY: LENA KHAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) I’m conflicted with the overdose of cuteness that is Flora & Ulysses. The entire concept of a movie with a superhero squirrel fits into the collection of other […]

February 11th, 2021 MOVIE: THE WORLD TO COME STARRING: KATHERINE WATERSTON, VANESSA KIRBY, CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT, CASEY AFFLECK DIRECTED BY: MONA FASTVOLD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The World to Come is an incredibly frustrating film. I will go in depth as to why that is, but it ultimately can be summed up […]

January 22nd, 2021 MOVIE: THE MAURITANIAN STARRING: TAHAR RAHIM, JODIE FOSTER, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, SHAILENE WOODLEY DIRECTOR: KEVIN MACDONALD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) As the years go on we begin to enter into a period where the presidential administration of George W. Bush becomes a distant memory. It’s strange to think about […]

February 18th, 2021 MOVIE: BLITHE SPIRIT STARRING: DAN STEVENS, ISLA FISHER, LESLIE MANN, JUDI DENCH DIRECTED BY: EDWARD HALL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) It’s never a bad time for a slapstick affair, a fun romp filled with ghosts and lovers, set in the 1930’s, with plenty of laughs. Blithe Spirit, a new […]

February 12th, 2021 MOVIE: LITTLE FISH STARRING: OLIVIA COOKE, JACK O’CONNELL, SOKO, RAUL CASTILLO DIRECTED BY: CHAD HARTIGAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) A recent trend has been movies investigating the mind and the deterioration of our memory. Anthony Hopkins delivered some of his best work in Florian Zellar’s The Father, displaying […]

February 9th, 2021 MOVIE: PVT CHAT STARRING: PETER VACK, JULIA FOX, KEITH POULSON, BUDDY DURESS DIRECTED BY: BEN HOZIE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) The world we’re living in has certainly changed the way that sex and intamacy are portrayed on screen. It’s not always a romantic thing. It’s a different kind of […]

February 9th, 2021 MOVIE: THE MAP OF TINY PERFECT THINGS STARRING: KYLE ALLEN, KATHRYN NEWTON, JOSH HAMILTON, CLEO FRASER DIRECTED BY: IAN SAMUELS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) There’s been a recent trend of Groundhog Day style of movies. Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2U, Palm Springs, See You Yesterday, Before I […]

February 12th, 2021 MOVIE: JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH STARRING: LAKEITH STANFIELD, DANIEL KALUUYA, DOMINIQUE FISHBACK, JESSE PLEMMONS DIRECTED BY: SHAKA KING AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) Judas and the Black Messiah has the biblical title and is chalk full of religious allegories. But it’s not just because it tells the story of […]

February 5th, 2021 MOVIE: THE RECKONING STARRING: CHARLOTTE KIRK, SEAN PERTWEE, STEVEN WADDINGTON, JOE ANDERSON DIRECTED BY: NEIL MARSHALL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Director Neil Marshall is good at horror movies. He has a thick, nasty style to his craft, which was evident in the claustrophobic classic The Descent. He attempted […]

FEBRUARY 3RD, 2021 MOVIE: BLISS STARRING: OWEN WILSON, SALMA HAYEK, NESTA COOPER, MADELINE ZIMA DIRECTED BY: MIKE CAHILL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Bliss is another original cut from director Mike Cahill. The director of Another Earth and I Origins never stops using his mind and he wants the audience to use theirs […]

January 26th, 2021 MOVIE: MALCOLM & MARIE STARRING: JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON, ZENDAYA DIRECTED BY: SAM LEVINSON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) The controversy surrounding Malcolm & Marie hits at the heart of what you are reading: film criticism. There’s a segment in Sam Levinson’s dramatic, argument structured film, where John David Washington’s character […]

February 1st, 2021 MOVIE: LAND STARRING: ROBIN WRIGHT, DEMIAN BICHIR, KIM DICKENS DIRECTED BY: ROBIN WRIGHT AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) There’s a scene in Robin Wright’s Land, where I related to her character in many ways. She plays Edee, a woman who has lost so much and it’s obvious that she decides […]

January 26th, 2021 MOVIE: SUPERNOVA STARRING: STANLEY TUCCI, COLIN FIRTH, PIPPA HAYWOOD DIRECTED BY: HARRY MACQUEEN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) What I absolutely loved about Supernova is the grace and the honesty it has for human life. There’s never a moment that feels unaware, that the people filling this narrative are breathing, […]

January 27th, 2021 MOVIE: THE LITTLE THINGS STARRING: DENZEL WASHINGTON, RAMI MALEK, JARED LETO DIRECTED BY: JOHN LEE HANCOCK AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) With three Oscar winners in your cast, it’s not wrong for audiences to expect something spectacular from John Lee Hankcock’s The Little Things. With Denzel Washington in the lead […]

January 26th, 2021 MOVIE: PALMER STARRING: JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, JUNE SQUIBB, ALISHA WAINWRIGHT, JUNO TEMPLE, RYDER ALLEN DIRECTED BY: FISHER STEVENS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The obstacle for a movie like Palmer is making this type of narrative entertaining. Is it something I would recommend? Yes, but will it be something that […]

January 26th, 2021 MOVIE: THE NIGHT STARRING: SHAHAB HOSSEINI, NIOUSHA NOOR, ARMIN AMIRI, STEPH MARTINEZ DIRECTED BY: KOUROSH AHARI AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) It’s not easy as a film critic when the movies are not good. It’s even worse when the movies you watch have the potential to be better than […]

January 22nd, 2021 MOVIE: NO MAN’S LAND STARRING: JAKE ALLYN, FRANK GRILLO, ANDIE MACDOWELL, GEORGE LOPEZ DIRECTED BY: CONOR ALLYN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) No Man’s Land is obviously a passion project of the acting, writing, and directing team of brothers Jake and Conor Allyn. Although it’s commendable for the pair to […]

January 20th, 2021 MOVIE: THE DIG STARRING: CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, LILY JAMES, JOHNNY FLYNN DIRECTED BY: SIMON STONE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) With a cast of Carey Mulligan, Ralph Finnes, Lily James, and Johnny Flynn, I had high hopes for The Dig. The trailer alone had a golden look of a […]

January 14th, 2021 MOVIE: HUNTED STARRING: LUCIE DEBAY, ARIEH WORTHALTER, CIARAN O’BRIEN DIRECTED BY: VINCENT PARONNAUD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) The director of Hunted wants the audience to think this is a subverted, new age telling of Little Red Riding Hood, but outside of the main character wearing a red hood, it’s […]

January 12th, 2021 MOVIE: MLK/FBI STARRING: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JAMES COMEY, BEVERLY GAGE DIRECTED BY: SAM POLLARD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) It’s not a question of whether the FBI mistreated Martin Luther King Jr., only a matter of how much did they mistreat him? That question is answered in Sam Pollard’s documentary […]

January 15th, 2021 MOVIE: OUTSIDE THE WIRE STARRING: ANTHONY MACKIE, DAMSON IDRIS, PILOU ASBAEK, EMILY BEECHAM DIRECTED BY: MIKAEL HAFSTROM AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) At this point, science fiction movies portraying a world of war and artificial intelligence being used as military are not far-fetched, they’re just inevitable. It’s also been […]

December 21st, 2020 MOVIE: ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI STARRING: KINGSLEY BEN-ADIR, ELI GOREE, ALDIS HODGE, LESLIE ODOM JR. DIRECTED BY: REGINA KING AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) In 2020, there was a strong boost to movies that worked as stage-plays. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was the big one, with amazing performances from the […]

JANUARY 8TH, 2021 MOVIE: THE WHITE TIGER STARRING: RAJKUMMAR RAO, PRIYANKA CHOPRA, ADARSH GOURAV DIRECTED BY: RAMIN BAHRANI AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Typically, I am annoyed with movies that use a narrator. There’s only two with a narrator that come to mind that work: Goodfellas and The Wolf of Wall Street. Those […]

January 6th, 2021 MOVIE: PIECES OF A WOMAN STARRING: VANESSA KIRBY, SHIA LABEOUF, ELLEN BURSTYN, SARAH SNOOK DIRECTED BY: KORNEL MUNDRUCZO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I have an interesting personal connection with Pieces of a Woman. It’s a movie about a woman that has chosen to do a home delivery of her […]

January 5th, 2021 MOVIE: RIO GRANDE STARRING: JOHN WAYNE, MAUREEN O’HARA, HARRY CAREY JR., VICTOR MCLARGEN DIRECTED BY: JOHN FORD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) It was not the first time I had watched John Ford’s Rio Grande and it certainly will not be the last. Olive Films is celebrating the legendary directors […]

December 23rd, 2020 MOVIE: WONDER WOMAN 1984 STARRING: GAL GADOT, CHRIS PINE, KRISTEN WIIG, PEDRO PASCAL DIRECTED BY: PATTY JENKINS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) With the massive success of 2017’s Wonder Woman, audiences are most likely aware that whatever was to follow would shirley not be able to achieve the same impact […]

December 23rd, 2020 MOVIE: NEWS OF THE WORLD STARRING: TOM HANKS, HELENA ZENGEL, ELIZABETH MARVEL, THOMAS FRANCIS MURPHY DIRECTED BY: PAUL GREENGRASS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Earlier this year, I stated in my review for Greyhound that Tom Hanks had made his full transformation into the modern day Jimmy Stewart. That trend […]

December 18th, 2020 MOVIE: SOUL STARRING: JAMIE FOXX, TINA FEY, GRAHAM NORTON, ANGELA BASSETT DIRECTED BY: PETE DOCTOR, KEMP POWERS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) The bar for a Pixar film might just be too high these days because Soul might be the animated studios most inspired effort yet, but like a pole […]

December 23rd, 2020 MOVIE: SYLVIE’S LOVE STARRING: TESSA THOMPSON, NNAMDI ASOMUGHA, EVA LONGORIA, AJA NAOMI KING, JEMIMA KIRKE DIRECTED BY: EUGENE ASHE AMovieGuy’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) While watching Sylvie’s Love I couldn’t stop thinking about La La Land. The two films felt strangely connected. Both films are about two people falling […]

December 17th, 2020 MOVIE: PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN STARRING: CAREY MULLIGAN, BO BURNHAM, LAVERNE COX, ALLISON BRIE DIRECTED BY: EMERALD FENNELL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The premise of Promising Young Woman is revenge. Not just getting even with one person or finding a way to regain the respect lost after defeat. This […]

December 18th, 2020 MOVIE: MONSTER HUNTER STARRING: MILLA JOVOVICH, TONY JAA, RON PERLMAN, MEGAN GOOD DIRECTED BY: PAUL W. S. ANDERSON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) At the beginning of Paul W. S. Anderson’s Monster Hunter I thought to myself, “this is ridiculous, these characters were just thrown from their humvee by a […]

December 15th, 2020 MOVIE: MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM STARRING: CHADWICK BOSEMAN; VIOLA DAVIS; COLMAN DOMINGO; GLYNN TURMAN DIRECTED BY: GEORGE C. WOLFE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 1/2 STARS (Out of 4) To have lost such an incredible talent such as Chadwick Boseman is a blemish on humanity. His very presence in movies, his stature, and star […]

DECEMBER 11th, 2020 MOVIE: THE MIDNIGHT SKY STARRING: GEORGE CLOONEY, FELICITY JONES, DAVID OYELOWO, TIFFANY BOONE, DEMIAN BICHIR, KYLE CHANDLER DIRECTED BY: GEORGE CLOONEY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The Midnight Sky is a pot of science fiction stew. It’s a concoction of The Martian, Gravity, Ad Astra, and Passengers all mixed […]

December 11th, 2020 MOVIE: THE PROM STARRING: MERYL STREEP, JAMES CORDEN, NICOLE KIDMAN, KERRY WASHINGTON, JO ELLEN PELLMAN DIRECTED BY: RYAN MURPHY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) I’d like to think that I am well versed in the world of musicals or musical theatre for that matter. My mother was a theatre director […]

December 11th, 2020 MOVIE: WANDER DARKLY STARRING: SIENNA MILLER, DIEGO LUNA, BETH GRANT, VANESSA BAYER DIRECTED BY: TARA MIELE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I spoke about romantic movies when Photograph was released earlier in 2020, how I often long for a time in cinema where our stars fell in love, slow motion […]

December 4th, 2020 MOVIE: AMMONITE STARRING: KATE WINSLET, SAOIRSE RONAN, GEMMA JONES, FIONA SHAW DIRECTED BY: FRANCIS LEE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) It seems with every movie she’s in, Saoirse Ronan just gets better and better at this acting thing. In Ammonite, her character is Charlotte Murchison, a young married woman, […]

December 4th, 2020 MOVIE: NOMADLAND STARRING: FRANCES MCDORMAND; DAVID STRATHAIRN DIRECTED BY: CHLOE ZHAO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) I was left speechless by the end of Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland. It’s fascinating, a film stripped down of everything. No flare, no CGI, no melodramatics, or massive budgets. Just a story about a woman […]

December 4th, 2020 MOVIE: MANK STARRING: GARY OLDMAN, AMANDA SEYFRIED, LILY COLLINS, ARLISS HOWARD DIRECTED BY: DAVID FINCHER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Within the bloodstream of David Fincher’s Mank is all things cinema. The studios, the stars, the directors, the politics, and everything else in-between. It’s a film about the famous […]

December 4th, 2020 MOVIE: WHAT LIES BELOW STARRING: EMA HORVATH; MENA SUVARI; TREY TUCKER DIRECTED BY: BRADEN R. DUEMMLER AMovierGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I always hope that the history of cinema is somehow rooted in the movies that are being made today and tomorrow. In Braden R. Duemmler’s What Lies Below, he […]

DECEMBER 4th, 2020 MOVIE: I’M YOUR WOMAN STARRING: RACHEL BROSNAHAN, MARSHA STEPHANIE BLAKE, ARINZE KENE, FRANKIE FAISON DIRECTED BY: JULIA HART AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) There are two movies in 2020 that capture a unique experience that only applies to women, no matter the setting, the time, or the place. Those […]

November 25th MOVIE: UNCLE FRANK STARRING: SOPHIA LILLIS, PAUL BETTANY, PETER MACDISSI, STEVE ZAHN, JUDY GREER, MARGO MARTINDALE, STEPHEN ROOT DIRECTED BY: ALAN BALL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) When I watch movies involving members of the LGBTQ community, living their lives in fear from the judgment of others, I often think […]

November 20th, 2020 MOVIE: SOUND OF METAL STARRING: RIZ AHMED, OLIVIA COOKE, PAUL RACI, MATHIEU AMALRIC DIRECTED BY: DARIUS MARDER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I think during this Covid-19 pandemic a lot of us have had the opportunity to cherish the things we have and reflect on how lucky we were […]

November 20th, 2020 MOVIE: FATMAN STARRING: MEL GIBSON, WALTON GOGGINS, MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE, CHANCE HURSTFIELD DIRECTED BY: ESHOM NELMS, IAN NELMS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) The concept of Mel Gibson playing Santa Claus would be as ridiculous as it sounds, no matter who directs it, or what the story is about, or who […]

November 14th, 2020 MOVIE: FIREBALL: VISITORS FROM DARKER WORLDS STARRING: WERNER HERZOG; CLIVE OPPENHEIMER DIRECTED BY: WERNER HERZOG; CLIVE OPPENHEIMER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Werner Herzog does not slow down, he only digs deeper into living. Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds is his 3rd film in 2020 and his documentaries continue to […]

November 10th, 2020 MOVIE: ECHO BOOMERS STARRING: PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER; ALEX PETTYFER; MICHAEL SHANNON DIRECTED BY: SETH SAVOY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) There is a collection of tropes that are used in movies that, at this point, ruin anything that a director and the underlying message that is trying to be said. I […]

November 10th, 2020 MOVIE: HILLBILLY ELEGY STARRING: AMY ADAMS; GLENN CLOSE; GABRIEL BASSO; OWEN ASZTALOS; HALEY BENNETT DIRECTED BY: RON HOWARD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) It’s hard to put into exact words, but Hillbilly Elegy makes me wonder if Ron Howard is okay? The Oscar winning director for hits such as […]

November 3rd, 2020 MOVIE: KINDRED STARRING: TAMARA LAWRANCE; JACK LOWDEN; FIONA SHAW; CHLOE PIRRIE DIRECTED BY: JOE MARCANTONIO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Kindred is the perfect movie to pair with The Invisible Man in a unique, but still disturbing way. Where Leigh Whannell’s hit interpretation of the “man you can’t see” hit […]

November 3rd, 2020 MOVIE: THE DARK AND THE WICKED STARRING: MARIN IRELAND, MICHAEL ABBOTT JR., XANDER BERKELEY DIRECTED BY: BRYAN BERTINO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) It’s confusing that Bryan Bertino’s The Dark and the Wicked was not released in October, not just because it was a horror film for the Halloween season, […]

October 29th, 2020 MOVIE: MORTAL STARRING: NAT WOLFF, IBEN AKERLIE, PRIYANKA BOSE, PER FRISCH DIRECTED BY: ANDRE OVREDAL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) With the lack of superhero movies in 2020, it’s safe to say that a slight gap has been left open for the genre of cape and cowl stories. I […]

October 28, 2020 MOVIE: EMBATTLED STARRING: STEPHEN DORFF; DARREN MANN; ELIZABETH REASER; DONALD FAISON DIRECTED BY: NICK SARKISOV AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) As far as sports films go, the competition of mixed martial arts has seldom been dissected in a cinematic fashion. Warrior is the only example I can think of and […]

October 27th, 2020 MOVIE: THE CRAFT: LEGACY STARRING: CAILEE SPAENY; MICHELLE MONAGHAN; DAVID DUCHOVNY; LOVIE SIMONE; GIDEON ADLON; ZOEY LUNA DIRECTED BY: ZOE LISTER-JONES AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) When discussing movies of the 1990’s, there’s a small place in my heart for Andrew Fleming’s 1996 high school witchcraft drama The Craft. It […]

October 22nd, 2020 MOVIE: BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM STARRING: SACHA BARON COHEN, MARIA BAKALOVA, RUDY GIULIANI DIRECTED BY: JASON WOLINER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I was a Junior in college when Borat became a memorable character of cinema. He’s also an ingenious creation of chaos, from the mad mind of Sacha Baron […]

October 21st, 2020 MOVIE: SYNCHRONIC STARRING: JAMIE DORNAN; ANTHONY MACKIE; KATIE ASELTON; DIRECTED BY: JUSTIN BENSON; AARON MOORHEAD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) The writing and directing team of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead continues to reach new heights and what’s impressive about their newest film- Synchronic– is that they have a bigger […]

October 20th, 2020 MOVIE: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’S LETTER TO YOU STARRING: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, MAX WEINBERG, STEVE VAN ZANDT, JAKE CLEMONS DIRECTED BY: THOM ZIMNY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) With the release of his rock documentary Western Stars last year and now Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You, I think Bruce Springsteen might be […]

October 14th, 2020 MOVIE: REBECCA STARRING: LILY JAMES; ARMIE HAMMER; KRISTEN SCOTT THOMAS; SAM RILEY DIRECTED BY: BEN WHEATLEY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) It’s one thing to remake a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It’s another thing to remake his movie that won best picture. Rebecca is undoubtedly a Hitchcock classic. A […]

OCTOBER 9th, 2020 MOVIE: HONEST THIEF STARRING: LIAM NEESON; KATE WALSH; JAI COURTNEY; JEFFREY DONOVAN; ANTHONY RAMOS DIRECTED BY: MARK WILLIAMS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) When the Liam Neeson action movie blu-ray pack is released in ten years, Honest Thief will be one of the more obscure installments in the bunch. […]

OCTOBER 9th, 2020 MOVIE: TIME STARRING: SIBIL FOX RICH; ROBERT RICH DIRECTED BY: GARRETT BRADLEY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Garret Bradley’s documentary Time belongs as an exhibit at an art museum. Possibly an entire room at MOMA (Museum of Modern Art), wall to wall covered in movie screens, where this documentary […]

October 7th, 2020 MOVIE: THE DOORMAN STARRING: RUBY ROSE; AKSEL HENNIE; JEAN RENO; RUPERT EVANS DIRECTED BY: RYUHEI KITAMURA AMovieGuy’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I now know how Matt Zoller Seitz was feeling when he gave a positive review to Ava, the direct to VOD, much panned action film with Jessica Chastain, […]

OCTOBER 7th, 2020 MOVIE: THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW STARRING: JIM CUMMINGS, ROBERT FORSTER, RIKI LINDHOME, CHLOE EAST DIRECTED BY: JIM CUMMINGS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) The werewolf picture can be the best of what the horror genre has to offer. I still get a kick out of Lon Chaney Jr.’s transformation […]

October 6th, 2020 MOVIE: SPONTANEOUS STARRING: KATHERINE LANGFORD; CHARLIE PLUMMER; PIPER PERABO; HAYLEY LAW DIRECTED BY: BRIAN DUFFIELD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Everything about Spontaneous is so…Spontaneous. This movie came out of nowhere and during the Covid crisis, it is getting the raw end of the deal, with a minimal theater release […]

October 2nd, 2020 MOVIE: A CALL TO SPY STARRING: SARAH MEGAN THOMAS, STANA KATIC, RADHIKA APTE, LINUS ROACHE DIRECTED BY: LYDIA DEAN PILCHER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Just two weeks ago, USA Today released the report that almost two-thirds of millennials and generation Z did not know that six million Jews […]

October 13th, 2020 MOVIE: 2 HEARTS STARRING: JACOB ELORDI, RADHA MITCHELL, ADAN CANTO, TIERA SKOVBYE DIRECTED BY: LANCE HOOL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) When I see a movie such as 2 Hearts what I discover is that I might not be half the man I used to be. Not to steal the […]

October 2nd, 2020 MOVIE: POSSESSOR STARRING: ANDREA RISEBOROUGH; CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT; JENNIFER JASON LEIGH; SEAN BEAN DIRECTED BY: BRANDON CRONENBERG AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) By the end of Possessor, the effects that occur on your brain will be something you’re processing much longer after it ends, and even then, you will want to […]

October 2nd, 2020 MOVIE: ON THE ROCKS STARRING: RASHIDA JONES; BILL MURRAY; MARLON WAYANS; JENNY SLATE DIRECTED BY: SOFIA COPPOLA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) When I watch a Sofia Coppola movie, I feel the Hollywood royalty stars lining up and truly blessing us with something special. That’s not to say that […]

September 25th, 2020 MOVIE: THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 STARRING: EDDIE REDMAYNE; SACHA BARON COHEN; MARK RYLANCE; JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT; JOHN CARROLL LYNCH DIRECTED BY: AARON SORKIN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) “The whole world is watching!” This is the chant, reverberating across the room from protestors in Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial […]

September 18th, 2020 MOVIE: THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME STARRING: TOM HOLLAND; ROBERT PATTINSON; SEBASTIAN STAN; RILEY KEOUGH; JASON CLARKE DIRECTED BY: ANTONIO CAMPOST AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) The darkest and most depressing movie of 2020 would have to be The Devil All the Time. That does not mean it is a […]

September 18th, 2020 MOVIE: THE NEST STARRING: JUDE LAW; CARRIE COON; OONA ROCHE; CHARLIE SHOTWELL DIRECTED BY: SEAN DURKIN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Cinema that revolves around the subject of marriage is often an endlessly complex topic. It’s complex in Fatal Attraction, or Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, it’s complex in […]

September 18th, 2020 MOVIE: ANTEBELLUM STARRING: JANELLE MONAE, JENA MALONE, JACK HUSTON, GABOUREY SIDIBE DIRECTED BY: GERARD BUSH, CHRISTOPHER RENZ AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) When you have a twist in a movie you can’t hold onto it too long or it won’t have an impact. In Antebellum, the new horror film […]

September 18th, 2020 MOVIE: ALONE STARRING: JULES WILLCOX, MARC MENCHACA, ANTHONY HEALD DIRECTED BY: JOHN HYAMS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) One week before I watched Alone I was mildly entertained by Russell Crowe’s work in Unhinged. The Oscar winner’s performance was a wild expression of rage and anger. After that, it was […]

September 9th, 2020 MOVIE: THE BROKEN HEARTS GALLERY STARRING: GERALDINE VISWANATHAN; DACRE MONTGOMERY; MOLLY GORDON; PHILLIPA SOO; BERNADETTE PETERS DIRECTED BY: NATALIE KRINSKY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: ½ STAR I don’t want to make this a review where I am just trashing on Natalie Krinsky’s directorial debut- The Broken Hearts Gallery. I am sure she is a […]

September 8th, 2020 MOVIE: RENT-A-PAL STARRING: BRIAN LANDIS FOLKINS; WIL WHEATON; AMY RUTLEDGE DIRECTED BY: JON STEVENSON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) In the horror genre, from movie to movie, there’s often a different kind of horror at hand. There’s always gore, jump scares, ghosts possessing a person or home, or the […]

September 7th, 2020 MOVIE: ENOLA HOLMES STARRING: MILLIE BOBBY BROWN; HENRY CAVILL; SAM CLAFLIN; DIRECTED BY: HARRY BRADBEER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) As someone who would describe himself as a fan of anything Sherlock Holmes, it brings me no joy in disliking Enola Holmes. This is a new angle on the classic […]

September 2nd, 2020 MOVIE: OTTOLENGHI AND THE CAKES OF VERSAILLES STARRING: YOTAM OTTOLENGHI DIRECTED BY: LAURA GABBERT AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) With any documentary about food or cooking, the best result to receive is when the audience is mentally salivating. Or at least inspired to leave their home and head directly for […]

MOVIE: ROY’S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD’S CHICAGO STARRING: BARRY GIFFORD; LILY TAYLOR; MATT DILLON; WILLEM DAFOE DIRECTED BY: ROB CHRISTOPHER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Smack dab, in the center of cinema is the collaboration of artists. When these collected minds come together to make something of substance, it is truly a beautiful […]

August 31st, 2020 MOVIE: MULAN STARRING: YIFEI LIU; DONNIE YEN; LI GONG; JET LI; JASON SCOTT LEE; TZI MA DIRECTED BY: NIKI CARO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Any way that you slice it, Mulan is a rousing success. Not even the global pandemic can stop this movie, with gorgeous cinematography, a […]

August 31st, 2020 MOVIE: I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS STARRING: JESSIE BUCKLEY; TONI COLLETTE; JESSE PLEMMONS; DAVID THEWLIS DIRECTED BY: CHARLIE KAUFMAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) It’s fascinating to enter into the mind of Charlie Kaufman. I’m Thinking of Ending Things is an evolving film, constantly bending, moving, and daring the […]

MOVIE: NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN STARRING: WERNER HERZOG; BRUCE CHATWIN DIRECTED BY: WERNER HERZOG AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) The first time I heard of Werner Herzog was when I was reading Roger Ebert’s memoir “Life Itself”. I had still not seen a single one of the legendary directors films, […]

August 21st, 2020 MOVIE: PENINSULA STARRING: GANG DONG-WON; LEE JUNG-HYUN; LEE RE; KIM DO-YOON DIRECTED BY: YEON SANG-HO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) The pressure on the follow-up to Train to Busan was high. It’s never easy to follow a movie that might be one of the best zombie films in the last […]

August 18th, 2020 MOVIE: GET DUKED! STARRING: SAMUEL BOTTOMLEY, EDDIE IZZARD, KATIE DICKIE, VIRAJ JUNEJA, RIAN GORDON, LEWIS GRIBBEN DIRECTED BY: NINIAN DOFF AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Surviving in the wilderness is not my thing either. However, I might enjoy the open air if I was with a few friends- in whatever […]

August 18th, 2020 MOVIE: TESLA STARRING: ETHAN HAWKE; EVE HEWSON; KYLE MCLACHLAN; JIM GAFFIGAN DIRECTED BY: MICHAEL ALMEREYDA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I have watched plenty of biopics during my time as a film critic and I’ve noticed that it does not take much for me to respect when this type of […]

August 18th, 2020 MOVIE: RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE STARRING: JESSE WILLIAMS; JORDANA BREWSTER; JAY BARUCHEL; NIAMH WILSON DIRECTED BY: JAY BARUCHEL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I take no pleasure when I find a horror movie to be lacking in any excitement and sadly Random Acts of Violence is that movie. Based […]

August 17th, 2020 MOVIE: UNHINGED STARRING: RUSSELL CROWE; CAREN PISTORIUS; GABRIEL BATEMAN; DIRECTED BY: DERRICK BORTE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The question that audiences will need to ask themselves, starting this week, with every movie playing at the theater is, “Will this movie be worth the risk of getting Covid-19?” You […]

August 17th, 2020 MOVIE: CHEMICAL HEARTS STARRING: LILI REINHART, AUSTIN ABRAMS, SARAH JONES, KARA YOUNG DIRECTED BY: RICHARD TANNE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) When it comes to romantic movies, I like them to be lovey dovey. I like it when two people meet and fall in love and I don’t mind if […]

August 14th, 2020 MOVIE: PROJECT POWER STARRING: JAMIE FOXX, JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, DOMINIQUE FISHBACK DIRECTED BY: HENRY JOOST, ARIEL SCHULMAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The concept of Project Power is, what if becoming a superhero was as simple as taking a pill? Would you do it? In this universe, people are not […]

August 13th, 2020 MOVIE: SPUTNIK STARRING: OKSANA AKINSHINA; FEDOR BONDARCHUK; PYOTR FYODOROV DIRECTED BY: EGOR ABRAMENKOV AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) When the creature exploded from John Hurt’s chest in Alien, there was not much after thought about if the snake-like “thing” would crawl back inside to Kane’s body. The thought was […]

August 12th, 2020 MOVIE: BOYS STATE STARRING: STEVEN GARZA; DIRECTED BY: AMANDA MCBAINE, JESSE MOSS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Watching Boys State will send a little bit of glimmer into your heart about the future. Not a massive amount. You won’t have a heart that glows like Iron Man. I can’t […]

MOVIE: MADE IN ITALY STARRING: LIAM NEESON; MICHEAL RICHARDSON; LINDSAY DUNCAN; VALERIA BILELLO DIRECTED BY: JAMES D’ARCY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) With every case of nepotism you have to be a bit trepidatious. Made in Italy may be the directorial debut for actor James D’Arcy, but the highlight of this movie […]

July 30th, 2020 MOVIE: THE CUBAN STARRING: ANA GOLJA; LOUIS GOSSETT JR.; SHOHREH AGHDASHLOO; LAUREN HOLLY DIRECTED BY: SERGIO NAVARRETTA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) What I kept thinking about while watching The Cuban was that there was not a single villain in this movie. It’s incredibly refreshing to watch a movie where […]

MOVIE: MOST WANTED STARRING: JOSH HARTNETT; STEPHEN MCHATTIE; ANTOINE OLIVIER PILON; JIM GAFFIGAN DIRECTED BY: DANIEL ROBY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) A movie such as Most Wanted is incredibly frustrating for a film critic. You take all this time to watch a two hour movie that has a solid premise, a true […]

July 22nd, 2020 MOVIE: THE RENTAL STARRING: DAN STEVENS; ALISON BRIE; SHEILA VAND; JEREMY ALLEN WHITE; TOBY HUSS DIRECTED BY: DAVE FRANCO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) In the horror genre, the home invasion movie still scares me. It might be a reason why I’m a big fan of the Halloween series, with […]

MOVIE: RADIOACTIVE STARRING: ROSAMUND PIKE; SAM RILEY; ANEURIN BARNARD; ANYA TAYLOR-JOY DIRECTED BY: MARJANE SATRAPI AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The statement that would summarize the life of madame Marie Curie is, “she did it all for science”. Good and bad, she is the brilliant mind that discovered radium, radioactivity, and the […]

July 9th, 2020 MOVIE: THE BEACH HOUSE STARRING: LIANA LIBERATO; NOAH LE GROS; JAKE WEBER; MARYANN NAGEL DIRECTED BY: JEFFREY A. BROWN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) The Beach House is a horror movie arriving at the right time. At any other moment it would still be considered an awesome, Lovecraft-style horror movie, […]

MOVIE: RELIC STARRING: EMILY MORTIMER; BELLA HEATHCOTE; ROBYN NEVIN DIRECTED BY: NATALIE ERIKA JAMES AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) In the industry of horror movies, it takes a particular type of skill to truly impress audiences. You are talking about a fan base that has seen it all and will throw their […]

MOVIE: GREYHOUND STARRING: TOM HANKS; STEPHEN GRAHAM; ELISABETH SHUE; KARL GLUSMAN DIRECTED BY: AARON SCHNEIDER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Greyhound is not just a throwback to old school war pictures, it’s the kind of movie that would make John Ford extremely proud. In the quintessential “dad movie”, everyone’s favorite dad Tom Hanks, […]

July 8th, 2020 MOVIE: GUEST OF HONOUR STARRING: DAVID THEWLIS; LAYSLA DE OLIVEIRA; LUKE WILSON DIRECTED BY: ATOM EGOYAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) You can’t accuse writer/director Atom Egoyan for being unoriginal, his films are his own spin of drama, and if he is going to miss the mark, he is doing […]

July 7th, 2020 MOVIE: THE OLD GUARD STARRING: CHARLIZE THERON, KIKI LAYNE, MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS, CHIWETEL EJIOFOR DIRECTED BY: GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I’m hoping that more fans of the Highlander movies will come out of the woods after watching the newest Netflix action film- The Old Guard. It’s about a […]

MOVIE: JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE STARRING: JOHN LEWIS; CORY BOOKER; MARTIN LUTHER KING; NANCY PELOSI DIRECTED BY: DAWN PORTER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The word synonymous with John Lewis is hero. He is an American hero. A patriot of the highest regard and I want everyone to see John Lewis: Good […]

STARRING: ELIZA SCANLEN; ESSIE DAVIS; BEN MENDELSOHN; TOBY WALLACE DIRECTED BY: SHANNON MURPHY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) Babyteeth is the most unlikely 4 star movie of 2020. I don’t prejudge a movie going in and when you find a hidden gem, it’s a fantastic reminder of the impact that movies can have. […]

STARRING: JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT; OMID MEMAR; AYLIN TEZEL DIRECTED BY: PATRICK VOLLRATH AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I like to call a movie such as 7500 a compact picture. It’s where the run-time is a tight 96 minutes, has a basic premise, and wastes little time. Other examples would be movies such as, The […]

MOVIE: VALHALLA RISING STARRING: MADS MIKKELSEN; MATTHEW ZAJAC; MAARTEN STEVENSON DIRECTED BY: NICOLAS WINDING REFN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) The blu-ray release of Valhalla Rising from IFC Films could not arrive at a more appropriate time. We’re in the middle of a pandemic, with justified anger at police killing black and brown […]

MOVIE: SOMETIMES ALWAYS NEVER STARRING: BILL NIGHY; SAM RILEY; ALICE LOWE; JENNY AGUTTER; DIRECTED BY: CARL HUNTER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) Sometimes Always Never is not the worst kind of bad movie, it’s the saddest kind of bad movie. It has an aesthetic to it, a collection of suitable actors, and a […]

MOVIE: DA 5 BLOODS STARRING: DELROY LINDO; CLARKE PETERS; ISIAH WHITLOCK JR.; CHADWICK BOSEMAN DIRECTED BY: SPIKE LEE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4)   Da 5 Bloods is another excellent picture from Spike Lee, but I wasn’t sure it was a four-star movie when it ended. I had to process it, absorb the […]

MOVIE: TOMMASO STARRING: WILLEM DAFOE; CRISTINA CHIRIAC; ANNA FERRARA DIRECTED BY: ABEL FERRARA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I don’t think Tommaso will have the same impact on audiences as it did on me. It’s about human pain and suffering, an autobiographical telling of director Abel Ferrara’s life, his struggles with addiction, […]

June 4th, 2020 MOVIE: BECKY STARRING: LULU WILSON; KEVIN JAMES; JOEL MCHALE DIRECTED BY: JONATHAN MILOTT; CARY MURNION AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)   The main highlight surrounding the horror film Becky, is that it’s a dramatic turn for Paul Blart funnyman Kevin James. Trust me, the concept of James playing a neo-nazi […]

MOVIE: THE VAST OF THE NIGHT STARRING: SIERRA MCCORMICK; JAKE HOROWITZ; BRUCE DAVIS DIRECTED BY: ANDREW PATTERSON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The word I would use to describe The Vast of the Night is vintage. This is an old school movie, with a look from the 1950’s, a classic style, tone, […]

MOVIE: THE WRETCHED STARRING: JOHN-PAUL HOWARD; PIPER CURDA; JAMISON JONES; AZIE TESFAI DIRECTED BY: BRETT PIERCE; DREW T. PIERCE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) The Wretched is a film that will fade from my mind fast during the quarantine from Covid-19. During the pandemic, I have watched who knows how many movies, so […]

MOVIE: THE TRIP TO GREECE STARRING: STEVE COOGAN; ROB BRYDON DIRECTED BY: MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The concept is the same, the scenic views are gorgeous, the food looks delectable, but the journey just gets better and better. The Trip to Greece is the fourth installment in “The Trip” […]

MOVIE: HOW TO BUILD A GIRL STARRING: BEANIE FELDSTEIN; ALFIE ALLEN; PADDY CONSIDINE; SARAH SOLEMANI DIRECTED BY: COKY GIEDROYC AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4)   There are things in How to Build a Girl that will make you smile and there are also things that will drive you insane. It’s another coming of […]

MOVIE: SCOOB! STARRING: WILL FORTE; FRANK WELKER; MARK WAHLBERG; GINA RODRIGUEZ, ZAC EFRON; AMANDA SEYFRIED DIRECTED BY: TONY CERVONE   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4)   In 2020 the hits just keep on coming. A pandemic, a recession, murder hornets, people losing their lives, and people losing their jobs. The only thing […]

MOVIE: DEERSKIN STARRING: JEAN DUJARDIN; ADELE HAENEL; ALBERT DELPY DIRECTED BY: QUENTIN DUPIEUX AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)   Deerskin might be a one-joke movie, but damn did I get a kick out of that joke. This is a strange film, a narrative that will not be for everyone, and will be a […]

MOVIE: SELAH AND THE SPADES STARRING: LOVIE SIMONE; CELESTE O’CONNOR; JHARREL JEROME DIRECTED BY: TAYARISHA POE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) In the history of cinema, movies set during the time of high school has spanned from when James Dean was a Rebel Without A Cause, The Breakfast Club was showing us how […]

MOVIE: TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG STARRING: GEORGE MACKAY; RUSSELL CROWE; ESSIE DAVIS; NICHOLAS HOULT DIRECTED BY: JUSTIN KURZEL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) When history is written by scholars it tends to take on a gravitas that unwillingly fabricates a story. It adds a bit of elegance to something that may […]

MOVIE: THE OTHER LAMB STARRING: RAFFEY CASSIDY; MICHIEL HUISMAN; DENISE GOUGH; EVE CONNOLLY DIRECTED BY: MALGORZATA SZUMOWSKA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) There is an argument in circles of cinephiles that a movie can’t be great, simply because it looks good. I am on the team that says if a movie looks gorgeous, […]

MOVIE: SWALLOW STARRING: HALEY BENNETT; AUSTIN STOWELL; DENIS O’HARE; ELIZABETH MARVEL DIRECTED BY: CARLO MIRABELLA-DAVIS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) They are a week apart, but The Invisible Man and Carlo Mirabella-Davis‘ new film Swallow would make an excellent double feature. Two films, about two different women, both struggling with different forms […]

MOVIE: RESISTANCE STARRING: JESSE EISENBERG; ED HARRIS; CLEMENCE POESY; BELLA RAMSEY DIRECTED BY: JONATHAN JAKUBOWICZ   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)    I’ve always felt strongly, that the stories must be told, in every medium, about what all Jewish people went through during World War II. No matter how repetitive or similar the […]

MOVIE: THE INVISIBLE MAN STARRING: ELIZABETH MOSS; ALDIS HODGE; STORM REID; OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN DIRECTED BY: LEIGH WHANNELL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4)   It’s terrifying, absolutely debilitating to not be believed, to be accused of lying, or even be viewed as mentally insane. That crippling feeling, that cold sense of paralysis permeates […]

The stuff dreams are made of… The measure of a great movie is when it is timeless, spans from decade to decade, and is as good on the first viewing as it is on the tenth. Everything in that sentence rings true for Field of Dreams. It’s the perfect sports movie, one that reminds us […]

MOVIE: THE PHOTOGRAPH STARRING: LAKEITH STANFIELD; ISSA RAE; ROB MORGAN; COURTNEY B. VANCE; LIL REL HOWERY DIRECTED BY: STELLA MEGHIE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) It was hard for me to remember the last truly romantic movie I had seen. I always go back to John Crowley’s Brooklyn, which was in 2015. […]

MOVIE: VFW STARRING: STEPHEN LANGE; WILLIAM SADLER; FRED WILLIAMSON; SIERRA MCCORMICK DIRECTED BY: JOE BEGOS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I will recommend a movie like VFW 9 out of 10 times. It has a premise that is reminiscent of John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13. The cast is a collection of who’s […]

MOVIE: BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN) STARRING: MARGOT ROBBIE; ROSIE PEREZ; EWAN MCGREGOR; MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD; JURNEE SMOLLETT-BELL DIRECTED BY: CATHY YAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)   Hiding in the shadows of the Suicide Squad and the massive success of Joker, arrives Birds of Prey (And […]

STARRING: WILL SMITH; MARTIN LAWRENCE; JOE PANTOLIANO; VANESSA HUDGENS DIRECTED BY: ADIL EL ARBI; BILALL FALLAH AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) There is one thing missing from Bad Boys for Life and it’s the direct reason why I had a great time with the third installment of this action series. It does not […]

MOVIE: DOLITTLE STARRING: ROBERT DOWNEY JR.; MICHAEL SHEEN; ANTONIO BANDERAS; JIM BROADBENT DIRECTED BY: STEPHEN GAGHAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4)   How soon before we can bring Iron Man back? Maybe it is just a rough first step, but life after playing Tony Stark for Robert Downey Jr. is going to […]

MOVIE: UNDERWATER STARRING: KRISTEN STEWART; VINCENT CASSEL; T.J. MILLER; JESSICA HENWICK DIRECTED BY: WILLIAM EUBANK AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The month of January typically produces movies that ease us into a new year of cinema. Low-budget horror or cliched comedies fill up screens, while leftover Oscar hopefuls look to gain traction […]

December 20th, 2019 MOVIE: CATS STARRING: FRANCESCA HAYWARD; JENNIFER HUDSON; IDRIS ELBA; JUDI DENCH; REBEL WILSON; DIRECTED BY: TOM HOOPER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 STAR (Out of 4) There are many ways that I can approach writing about Tom Hooper’s Cats. I could be plucky and say it’s such a bad movie that you will have […]

STARRING: CHRISTIAN BALE; MATT DAMON; CAITRIONA BALFE; JON BERNTHAL DIRECTED BY: JAMES MANGOLD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I don’t think we see enough sports movies anymore. With cinema stuck in the major blockbuster, superhero, big action mode, it leads to the stories on screen being the same thing over and over […]

November 6th, 2019 MOVIE: DOCTOR SLEEP STARRING: EWAN MCGREGOR; REBECCA FERGUSON; KYLIEGH CURRAN DIRECTED BY: MIKE FLANAGAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Depending on who you talk to, there are some that view Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining as the greatest horror film of all time. That is a different argument, for a different […]

MOVIE: ADOPT A HIGHWAY STARRING: ETHAN HAWKE; ELAINE HENDRIX; BETTY GABRIEL DIRECTED BY: LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) There is something beautiful about Ethan Hawke. This is an acting legend, in my opinion, a man who has put his sweat and tears into the profession of cinema, and made it […]

STARRING: MASATAKA KUBOTA; SAKURAKO KONISHI; SHOTA SOMETANI DIRECTED BY: TAKASHI MIIKE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Considering Takashi Miike has directed 101 films at this point, it’s easy to see why his recent film- First Love– feels like he is making a movie that combines all of his greatest hits. There’s not […]

MOVIE: 3 FROM HELL STARRING: SHERI MOON ZOMBIE; SID HAIG; BILL MOSELEY; RICHARD BRAKE DIRECTED BY: ROB ZOMBIE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I think movies should have a directors note ahead of a screening. The uncommon audience is typically in for a rude awakening when watching a Terrence Mallick film for the […]

September 27th, 2019 MOVIE: BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE STARRING: PERNILLA AUGUST; PETER HABER; OLLE SARRI; ANDERS MOSSLING DIRECTED BY: TUVA NOVOTNY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I would place Britt-Marie War Here on the list of “movies that we don’t get enough of these days”. You might call it a movie for your parents […]

MOVIE: AD ASTRA STARRING: BRAD PITT; RUTH NEGGA; DONALD SUTHERLAND; TOMMY LEE JONES DIRECTED BY: JAMES GRAY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) Ad Astra is about the relationship between a father and a son. It is about humanities relationship with science and the stars. It is about a mission, one that involves seeking […]

August 20th, 2019 MOVIE: ANGEL HAS FALLEN STARRING: GERRARD BUTLER, MORGAN FREEMAN, DANNY HUSTON, JADA PINKETT SMITH DIRECTED BY: RIC ROMAN WAUGH AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I couldn’t for the life of me, remember the details about Olympus Has Fallen or London Has Fallen, prior to seeing the new action installment- […]

MOVIE: AFTER THE WEDDING STARRING: MICHELLE WILLIAMS; JULIANNE MOORE; BILLY CRUDUP DIRECTED BY: BART FREUNDLICH AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I always say that movies can be something that changes your mood, makes you happy, or just puts you in the right mindset. Sometimes we crave for a bit of that soapy […]

STARRING: JASON SUDEIKIS; JOSH GAD; LESLIE JONES; RACHEL BLOOM DIRECTED BY: THUROP VAN ORMAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Adults tend to be rolling the dice when seeing a movie like The Angry Birds Movie 2. Similar to the first installment, it is a bright and colorful picture, geared towards making kids laugh, […]

August 13th, 2019 MOVIE: DRIVEN STARRING: JASON SUDEIKIS; LEE PACE; JUDY GREER; COREY STOLL; JUSTIN BARTHA DIRECTED BY: NICK HAMM AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) There have been plenty of movies about John DeLorean lately, but Driven is my introduction to the car creator. That might be the reason why I enjoyed this […]

July 23rd, 2019 MOVIE: DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME STARRING: DAVID CROSBY; GRAHAM NASH; CAMERON CROWE; NEIL YOUNG DIRECTED BY: A.J. EATON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) There is a comment made by David Crosby in his new documentary that will stick in my head for a long time. Crosby states, “Time […]

June 19th, 2019 MOVIE: BEING FRANK STARRING: JIM GAFFIGAN; ANNA GUNN; SAMANTHA MATHIS; LOGAN MILLER DIRECTED BY: MIRANDA BAILEY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Being Frank scratched an emotional itch that I didn’t think needed scratching. There’s a slapstick nature in the plot, starring Jim Gaffigan as Frank, a man who’s been living […]

July 10th, 2019 MOVIE: DARLIN’ STARRING: LAURYN CANNY; POLLYANNA MCINTOSH; NORA-JANE NOONE; COOPER ANDREWS DIRECTED BY: POLLYANNA MCINTOSH AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) There is an awesome evolution, in front and behind the camera, when talking about Pollyanna McIntosh’s film Darlin‘. This is the third phase of a trilogy. The first installment was […]

MOVIE: THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE STARRING: ALEXANDRE LANDRY; MARIPIER MORIN; REMY GIRARD DIRECTED BY: DENYS ARCAND AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) The Fall of the American Empire begins with a conversation between Pierre-Paul (Alexandre Landry) and his current, but soon to be ex-girlfriend Linda (Florence Longpre). The dialogue is rich in […]

MOVIE: GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS STARRING: KYLE CHANDLER; VERA FARMIGA; MILLIE BOBBY BROWN; KEN WANTANABE DIRECTED BY: MICHAEL DOUGHERTY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) You wanted monsters? Boy, does Godzilla: King of the Monsters have that in store for you. The follow-up to 2014’s Godzilla– directed by Gareth Edwards, clearly heard […]

May 22nd, 2019 MOVIE: BOOKSMART STARRING: BEANIE FELDSTEIN; KAITLYN DEVER; BILLIE LOURD; JASON SUDEIKIS DIRECTED BY: OLIVIA WILDE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Booksmart is about as close as it comes to a person nailing their directorial debut. Olivia Wilde steps behind the camera, in this female focused, raunchy, yet hilarious comedy, […]

STARRING: RUTH WESTHEIMER DIRECTED BY: RYAN WHITE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Standing at no bigger than five feet tall, Ruth Westheimer packs the greatest punch of them all. The sex therapist that we all know as Dr. Ruth, is the most unlikely of documentary subjects and yet, is the focus of […]

STARRING: CHRIS EVANS; ROBERT DOWNEY JR. BRIE LARSON; SCARLETT JOHANSSON DIRECTED BY: ANTHONY RUSSO; JOE RUSSO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Clocking in at a full three hours, the climactic, and 22nd installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers: Endgame is an accomplishment, even before butts are in seats, and the lights go […]

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Her Smell broke me up inside. I felt like I had taken a trip back in time. To a time when I drank to get away, to a time in my teenage years, to the 1990’s, and a time where alternative rock still mattered.

STARRING: TAO ZHAO; FAN LIAO;  DIRECTED BY: ZHANGKE JIA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The central themes of Ash is the Purest White, is the time and space of our lives. This is a love story kept at a distance and a tragic tale of a failed relationship. Qiao (Tao Zhao) and […]

March 28th, 2019 MOVIE: DUMBO STARRING: COLIN FARRELL; DANNY DEVITO; MICHAEL KEATON; EVA GREEN DIRECTED BY: TIM BURTON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) With Disney going through past animated classics, retelling them in live-action form, it’s hard to not see these revisions as cash grabs for pennies, especially when it comes to the […]

March 21st, 2019 MOVIE: DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE STARRING: MEL GIBSON; VINCE VAUGHN; TORY KITTLES; DON JOHNSON; MICHAEL JAI WHITE DIRECTED BY: S. CRAIG ZAHLER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) There is a lot to unpack with S. Craig Zahler’s newest film Dragged Across Concrete. It stars, of all people, Mel Gibson and Vince […]

March 6th, 2019 MOVIE: CAPTAIN MARVEL STARRING: BRIE LARSON; SAMUEL L. JACKSON; JUDE LAW; BEN MENDELSOHN DIRECTED BY: ANNA BODEN; RYAN FLECK AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) With Captain Marvel being the 21st installment into the Marvel cinematic universe, you likely have an idea of how their formula is working. The more […]

MOVIE: HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U STARRING: JESSICA ROTHE; ISRAEL BROUSSARD; RUBY MODINE; RACHEL MATTHEWS DIRECTED BY: CHRISTOPHER LANDON AMovieGuy.com’s REVIEW: 2 STARS (Out of 4) Happy Death Day 2U is not the horror movie you are hoping to see, for better and for worse. Maybe it’s wrong for me to expect much from a movie […]

STARRING: MADS MIKKELSEN; MARIA THELMA SMARADOTTIR DIRECTED BY: JOE PENNA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) As far as survival films go, Arctic is one of the coolest. Director Joe Penna keeps things simple, taking Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, who has the look of a man that saw his fair share of bar […]

February 4th, 2019 MOVIE: COLD WAR STARRING: JOANNA KULIG; TOMASZ KOT; BORYS SZYC DIRECTED BY: PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) The word cold is the best way to describe the films of Pawel Pawlikowski. He follows up his coldest film- Ida, with a film that I would describe as frigid. Cold […]

MOVIE: GODS OF EGYPT STARRING: GERARD BUTLER; NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU; BRENTON THWAITES DIRECTED BY: ALEX PROYAS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 STAR (Out of 4) If you want to know everything that is wrong with Hollywood movies today, look no further than Gods of Egypt. I feel as a film critic that it is my civic duty to […]

MOVIE: GLASS STARRING: JAMES MCAVOY; SAMUEL L. JACKSON; BRUCE WILLIS; SARAH PAULSON DIRECTED BY: M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN  AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) And just like that, M. Night Shyamalan is once again the most divisive writer/director in the movie industry. Following his success, what some have claimed as a comeback with The Visit […]

STARRING: WILLEM DAFOE; OSCAR ISAAC; RUPERT FRIEND; MADS MIKKELSEN DIRECTED BY: JULIAN SCHNABEL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I guess all it takes for me to be moved by cinema is a beautiful score, in your face cinematography, and Willem Dafoe. At Eternity’s Gate is about the artist Vincent Van Gogh, his life, […]

December 3rd, 2018 MOVIE: BURNING STARRING: YOO AH-IN; JEON JONG-SEO; STEVEN YEUN DIRECTED BY: LEE CHANG-DONG AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The title- Burning, is almost too on the nose for everything that happens in Lee Chang-dong’s newest film. It’s a slow-cooked narrative, a love-triangle, that morphs into a character study, and […]

November 20th, 2018 MOVIE: CREED 2 STARRING: MICHAEL B. JORDAN; SYLVESTER STALLONE; TESSA THOMPSON; DOLF LUNDGREN DIRECTED BY: STEVEN CAPLE JR. AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) In past reviews of boxing movies, I’ve mentioned that I grew tired of seeing the same cliched rise, fall, and rise again narrative, about a fighter facing […]

MOVIE: A PRIVATE WAR STARRING: ROSAMUND PIKE; JAMIE DORNAN; STANLEY TUCCI; TOM HOLALNDER DIRECTED BY: MATTHEW HEINEMAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) There are people in this world that hate journalists. One of those people, is the president of the United States of America. Similar to The Post last year, I find […]

October 25th, 2018 MOVIE: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY STARRING: RAMI MALEK; LUCY BOYNTON; BEN HARDY; GWILYM LEE DIRECTED BY: BRIAN SINGER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) Sadly, Bohemian Rhapsody is the worst kind of biopic. It leaves you entertained by the final moments and fails to entertain you with anything prior to it. This is […]

MOVIE: FREE SOLO STARRING: ALEX HONNOLD DIRECTED BY: JIMMY CHIN; ELIZABETH CHAI VASARHELYI AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Let me catch my breath. Free Solo is not the movie to watch if you have anxiety. Or a fear of heights. Or if you just don’t like the threat of someone plummeting to […]

STARRING: STEVE CARELL; TIMOTHEE CHALAMET; MAURA TIERNEY; AMY RYAN   DIRECTED BY: FELIX VAN GROENINGEN   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)   Beautiful Boy is the heaviest movie of the year, in a year of movies that has been riddled with addiction dramas. It is taken from the best-selling memoirs of father and […]

MOVIE: FIRST MAN STARRING: RYAN GOSLING; CLAIRE FOY; KYLE CHANDLER; JASON CLARKE DIRECTED BY: DAMIEN CHAZELLE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) First Man is about Neil Armstrong’s historic trip to the moon, but this is a story that is about the journey more than the destination. It’s directed by Damien Chazelle, who made […]

MOVIE: A STAR BORN STARRING: BRADLEY COOPER; LADY GAGA; SAM ELLIOT DIRECTED BY: BRADLEY COOPER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) The lyrics go like this, “Tell me something girl, are you happy in this modern world? Or do you need more? Is there something else your searching for?” And just like that,  we’re […]

September 27th, 2018 MOVIE: BLAZE STARRING: BEN DICKEY; ALIA SHAWKAT; CHARLIE SEXTON DIRECTED BY: ETHAN HAWKE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (out of 4) Although we eagerly await for Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born to come crashing into theaters next week, may I interest you in another film about the rise and fall of […]

September 13th, 2018 MOVIE: AMERICAN CHAOS STARRING: JAMES D. STERN DIRECTED BY: JAMES D. STERN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) At this moment in time, newspaper articles, newscasters, pundits, and documentaries like American Chaos, continue to ask why and how Donald Trump became president of the United States. We are two year’s into […]

September 1st, 2018 MOVIE: DESTINATION WEDDING STARRING: KEANU REEVES; WINONA RYDER DIRECTED BY: VICTOR LEVIN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) On paper, a movie starring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder in a romantic comedy sounded like cinematic gold. The pair of actors that got their careers started in the 80’s, have had simultaneous […]

August 30th, 2018 MOVIE: ELIZABETH HARVEST STARRING: ABBEY LEE; CIARAN HINDS; CARLA GUGINO DIRECTED BY: SEBASTIAN GUTIERREZ AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Elizabeth Harvest looks like a sci-fi film that you have seen before or maybe we just don’t see enough of them anymore. Director Sebastian Gutierrez introduces us to a happy, newlywed […]

August 15th, 2018 MOVIE: ALPHA STARRING: KODI SMIT-MCPHEE; JOHANNES HAUKUR JOHANNESSON; MERCEDES DE LA ZERDA DIRECTED BY: ALBERT HUGHES AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The story of a boy and his dog has been told before, but Alpha explicitly markets itself as an origin story of man becoming best friends forever with […]

August 6th, 2018 MOVIE: BLACKKKLANSMAN STARRING: JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON, ADAM DRIVER, LAURA HARRIER, TOPHER GRACE DIRECTED BY: SPIKE LEE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) In the current political climate we are living in, the voice of Spike Lee is needed more than ever. The New York director has made movies that constantly speak […]

August 2nd, 2018 MOVIE: CHRISTOPHER ROBIN STARRING: EWAN MCGREGOR; HAYLEY ATWELL; BRONTE CARMICHAEL; MARK GATISS DIRECTED BY: MARC FORSTER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I can only get behind a movie that has a message about kindness, encourages others to use their imagination, and asks us to find an appreciation for the things […]

July 18th, 2018 MOVIE: BLINDSPOTTING STARRING: DAVEED DIGGS; RAFAEL CASAL; JANINA GAVANKAR; ETHAN EMBRY DIRECTED BY: CARLOS LOPEZ ESTRADA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Blindspotting is a movie that wakes the audience up. To a life you may not live, to a language you may not speak, a neighborhood that you don’t […]

July 17th, 2018 MOVIE: THE EQUALIZER 2 STARRING: DENZEL WASHINGTON; MELISSA LEO; BILL PULLMAN; ASHTON SANDERS DIRECTED BY: ANTOINE FUQUA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I already think Denzel Washington is a superhero, but I also think it’s pretty cool that the two-time Oscar winner has found himself an action franchise at this […]

July 12th, 2018 MOVIE: EATING ANIMALS STARRING: NATALIE PORTMAN DIRECTED BY: CHRISTOPHER DILLON QUINN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I don’t know how to convince people. I have watched a countless number of documentaries about the meat and dairy industry. I have seen the horrific videos revealing what happens behind the scenes […]

July 4th, 2018 MOVIE: BLEEDING STEEL STARRING: JACKIE CHAN; CALLAN MULVEY; TESS HAUBRICH; NA-NA OUYANG; SHOW LO DIRECTED BY: LEO ZHANG AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The title of this movie is Bleeding Steel. Without knowing the plot, I assumed this was going to be an awesome Jackie Chan action flick, that […]

STARRING: PAUL RUDD; EVANGELINE LILLY; MICHAEL PENA; MICHAEL DOUGLAS; MICHELLE PFEIFFER DIRECTED BY: PEYTON REED AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) After the gloomy tone of Avengers: Infinity War, we are given an energetic, delightful, and welcoming attitude in Marvels newest installment: Ant-Man and the Wasp. We pick up in the action following the […]

June 29th, 2018 MOVIE: BOUNDARIES STARRING: VERA FARMIGA; CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER; LEWIS MACDOUGALL DIRECTED BY: SHANA FESTE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) If I didn’t tell you that Boundaries was a true story, you wouldn’t believe it. The entire time, I was thinking it was an original, well written movie, when actually everything about […]

STARRING: SAM GITTINS; NEERJA NAIK; DAVID BRADLEY; GRANT MASTERS   DIRECTED BY: JOHNNY KEVORKIAN   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)   An opinion can be formed in mere minutes from what we read on the internet or watch on TV. Constant information pumped into our minds. Watch three different surrogates for the current […]

June 21st, 2018 MOVIE: DAMSEL STARRING: ROBERT PATTINSON; MIA WASIKOWSKA; DAVID ZELLNER; NATHAN ZELLNER; ROBERT FORSTER DIRECTED BY: DAVID ZELLNER; NATHAN ZELLNER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Nobody should be waiting for their knight in shining armor. That’s the lesson learned from Damsel, a western that turns the audience in a different direction […]

MOVIE: A KID LIKE JAKE STARRING: JIM PARSONS; CLAIRE DANES; ANN DOWD; PRIYANKA CHOPRA DIRECTED BY: SILAS HOWARD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) It feels good to know a movie as caring and understanding as A Kid Like Jake is out there in the universe for families to experience. Here is a film […]

STARRING: JOHN CARROLL LYNCH; MATT BOMER; MAURA TIERNEY DIRECTED BY: TIMOTHY MCNEIL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (out of 4) Finally we have a movie that makes well-known character actor John Carroll Lynch as the leading star. Unfortunately, in that same movie, we also set-back the transgender community with the casting of Matt Bomer in […]

May 17th, 2018 MOVIE: ALWAYS AT THE CARLYLE STARRING: GEORGE CLOONEY; SOFIA COPPOLA; ANJELICA HUSTON; ANTHONY BOURDAIN DIRECTED BY: MATTHEW MIELE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Always at the Carlyle is half informative documentary, about one of the oldest and most famous hotels in all of New York city. The other half […]

MOVIE: FAR FROM THE MADDENING CROWD STARRING: CAREY MULLIGAN; MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS; JUNO TEMPLE; MICHAEL SHEEN DIRECTED BY: THOMAS VINTERBERG AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (OUT OF 4 STARS) A glossy golden sun settles upon the glistening, sheep infested green fields, of an 1870’s Victorian England in director Thomas Vinterberg’s gorgeous retelling of the Thomas Hardy novel, […]

MOVIE: FLOWER STARRING: ZOEY DEUTCH; KATHRYN HAHN; JOEY MORGAN; ADAM SCOTT DIRECTED BY: MAX WINKLER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) There comes a time where that one role can boost the career of an actor, projecting them into superstardom. For Tom Cruise it was Maverick in Top Gun. For Jennifer Lawrence it was […]

February 14th, 2018 MOVIE: EARLY MAN STARRING: EDDIE REDMAYNE; MASIE WILLIAMS; TOM HIDDLESTEN; ROB BRYDEN DIRECTED BY: NICK PARK AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) It takes multiple animators to make a stop-motion animated feature and I never tire from seeing the meticulous, highly detailed work that it takes to make these clay […]

MOVIE: A FANTASTIC WOMAN STARRING: DANIELA VEGA; FRANCISCO REYES; LUIS GNECCO DIRECTED BY: SEBASTIAN LELIO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) At the center of A Fantastic Woman is the theme of how important our identity means to us. This subject continues to inspire us, no matter how sure we are with ourselves, […]

January 18th, 2018 MOVIE: DEN OF THIEVES STARRING: GERARD BUTLER; O’SHEA JACKSON; 50 CENT; DAWN OLIVIERI DIRECTED BY: CHRISTIAN GUDEGAST AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 STAR (out of 4) When the audience cheered at the end of Den of Thieves, it made me ponder, maybe this is the movie that the people of earth deserve? Like many […]

MOVIE: 12 STRONG STARRING: CHRIS HEMSWORTH, MICHAEL SHANNON, MICHAEL PENA DIRECTED BY: NICOLAI FUGLSIG AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) When a movie succeeds at telling a heroic war story, my emotions are stirred like a bowl of Jello pudding. It’s easy for me to feel a sense of pride for the brave people […]

MOVIE: FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL STARRING: ANNETTE BENNING, JAMIE BELL, JULIE WALTERS DIRECTED BY: PAUL MCGUIGAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) It’s sad to think that you would be hard-pressed to find a person on the street who knows who Gloria Grahame is. In Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, at […]

MOVIE: ACTS OF VIOLENCE STARRING: BRUCE WILLIS; COLE HAUSER; SOFIA BUSH; SHAWN ASHMORE; MIKE EPPS DIRECTED BY: BRETT DONOWHO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 STAR (Out of 4) Every year we see Nicolas Cage in a direct to VOD movie, I mean, he has to pay the bills, and at this point, I think he genuinely enjoys […]

December 24th, 2017 MOVIE: ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD STARRING: MICHELLE WILLIAMS; MARK WAHLBERG; CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER DIRECTED BY: RIDLEY SCOTT AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) At the age of 80-years old, Ridley Scott accomplished what no director has ever done, re-casting a major character with less than a month before release and […]

December 6th, 2017 MOVIE: DARKEST HOUR STARRING: GARY OLDMAN; KRISTEN SCOTT THOMAS; BEN MENDELSON; LILLY JAMES DIRECTED BY: JOE WRIGHT AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) You will be hard pressed to find a review from critics that doesn’t praise the performance and transformation of Gary Oldman into Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. And […]

November 22nd, 2017 MOVIE: COCO STARRING: ANTHONY GONZALEZ; GAEL GARCIA BERNAL; BENJAMIN BRATT; ALRENEE VICTOR DIRECTED BY: LEE UNKRICH; ADRIAN MOLINA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) How does Pixar do it? Every time I see another animated feature from the studio that made classics, such as Wall-E, UP!, and Inside Out, I […]

MOVIE: THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI STARRING: FRANCES MCDORMAND; WOODY HARRELSON; SAM ROCKWELL; PETER DINKLAGE DIRECTED BY: MARTIN MCDONAGH AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) If you were to use one word to describe writer/director Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, it would be: nihilistic. It may be lame for me to […]

MOVIE: FACES PLACES STARRING: AGNES VARDA; JR DIRECTED BY: AGNES VARDA; JR AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) There are so many places one could begin with Faces Places, the new film from cinema legend Agnes Varda and the art muralist/photographer JR. Perhaps, I should just express how full my heart was from the […]

MOVIE: HAPPY DEATH DAY STARRING: JESSICA ROTHE; ISRAEL BROUSSARD; RACHEL MATTHEWS; RUBY MODINE DIRECTED BY: CHRISTOPHER LANDON AMovieGuy.com: 2 ½ Stars (Out of 4) The Groundhog Day style film has become a sub-genre. A paint by numbers style of storytelling. Happy Death Day, makes it the second film in the same year, with the teenage […]

MOVIE: FRIEND REQUEST STARRING: ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY; WILLIAM MOSELEY; CONNOR PAOLO; BRIT MORGAN DIRECTED BY: SIMON VERHOEVEN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Friend Request is another horror movie attempting to capitalize on how humanity revolves around the addictive natures of social media. Instead of sending a message to audiences about these dangers, it […]

STARRING: EMMA STONE; STEVE CARELL; BILL PULLMAN; ANDREA RISEBOROUGH   DIRECTED BY: JONATHAN DAYTON; VALERIE FARIS   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4)   Recently, tennis legend John McEnroe made a comment on NPR radio about tennis great Serena Williams, stating “if she played the men’s circuit she’d be like 700 in the […]

September 13, 2017 MOVIE: AMERICAN ASSASSIN STARRING: DYLAN O’BRIEN; MICHAEL KEATON; TAYLOR KITSCH DIRECTED BY: MICHAEL CUESTA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) I like to think of myself as an expert at what makes a great action flick. In American Assassin I was seeing all of the ingredients on the screen that could […]

MOVIE: AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER STARRING: AL GORE DIRECTED BY: BONNI COHEN & JON SHENK AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) In my eyes, Al Gore is an American patriot. Throw political parties out the window. He’s not just trying to save the planet for himself, he’s trying to save the planet […]

August 4th, 2017 MOVIE: BRIGSBY BEAR STARRING: KYLE MOONEY; GREG KINNEAR; MARK HAMIL; MICHAELA WATKINS DIRECTED BY: DAVE MCCARY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Who at any point of their life can’t say they were passionate about something? Some loved Star Wars or My Little Pony growing up. Or maybe you had a […]

July 30th, 2017 MOVIE: DETROIT STARRING: JOHN BOYEGA; ALGEE SMITH; WILL POULTER; JACOB LATIMORE DIRECTED BY: KATHRYN BIGELOW AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I hope Detroit will elicit emotions of anger, sadness, and frustration from the audiences that see it. Kathryn Bigelow, the director of Point Break, The Hurt Locker, and Zero […]

MOVIE: A GHOST STORY STARRING: CASEY AFFLECK; ROONEY MARA DIRECTED BY: DAVID LOWERY  AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I’m not sure where to begin with A Ghost Story? It is by far the most unique film anyone will see all year and yet, this is not the type of film you can […]

STARRING: ANSEL ELGORT; JAMIE FOXX; JON HAMM; LILY JAMES; KEVIN SPACEY   DIRECTED BY: EDGAR WRIGHT   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4)   Yeah, this baby fucking rocks. I’m talking about Edgar Wright’s new electric heist film- Baby Driver. This smooth moving, fast paced affair, is sure to impress the pants off […]

STARRING: CHARLIZE THERON; JAMES MCAVOY; JOHN GOODMAN; SOFIA BOUTELLA   DIRECTED BY: DAVID LEITCH   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)   I feel everything is right in the universe, now that we have a franchise where Charlize Theron plays a badass spy, kicking and punching her way through a bunch of German bad […]

MOVIE: 47 METERS DOWN STARRING: MANDY MOORE, CLAIRE HOLT, MATTHEW MODINE DIRECTED BY: JOHANNES ROBERTS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) A quote during the trailer for 47 Meters Down states, “the best shark attack movie since Jaws”, okay that statement is obviously insane. You would have to be drunk, crazy, or all of […]

June 13th, 2017 MOVIE: CARS 3 STARRING: OWEN WILSON; CRISTELA ALONZO; CHRIS COOPER; ARMIE HAMMER DIRECTED BY: BRIAN FEE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) There are Pixar movies and then there is the Cars trilogy. When we look at the collection of spectacular animated films such as UP!, The Incredibles, or Inside Out, […]

STARRING: ZOE LISTER-JONES; ADAM PALLY; FRED ARMISEN   DIRECTED BY: ZOE LISTER-JONES   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)   Sure, you could see Wonder Woman this weekend  (no, seriously, go see Wonder Woman), but you could also go see a movie with a super woman by the name of Zoe Lister-Jones. The director, […]

MOVIE: A QUIET PASSION STARRING: CYNTHIA NIXON; JENNIFER EHLE; DUNCAN DUFF; KEITH CARRADINE DIRECTED BY: TERENCE DAVIES AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 Stars (Out of 4) Finally, Chicago is getting the chance to see A Quiet Passion, the exquisite new film from Terence Davies, about the life of poet Emily Dickinson. There is nothing flashy about a […]

MOVIE: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 STARRING: CHRIS PRATT; ZOE SALDANA; DAVE BAUTISTA; MICHAEL ROOKER DIRECTED BY: JAMES GUNN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 Stars (Out of 4) Out there among the stars, those Guardians of the Galaxy just keep on playing the hits. Marvel’s odd-ball collection of characters have returned for a second helping, although […]

MOVIE: FREE FIRE STARRING: ARMIE HAMMER; BRIE LARSON; SHARLTO COPLEY; CILLIAN MURPHY DIRECTED BY: BEN WHEATLEY AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4 Stars) Sometimes it’s just fun to watch a good ole’ fashioned shootout. And sometimes, as critics, we often complain about how movies today are filled with dumb and mindless entertainment. Well, […]

April 14th, 2017 MOVIE: COLOSSAL STARRING: ANNE HATHAWAY; JASON SUDEIKIS; TIM BLAKE NESLON; DAN STEVENS DIRECTED BY: NACHO VIGALONDO AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) In Colossal, the best advice I can give is for you to know nothing about it going in, stick with it, and bask in this film’s brilliant originality. […]

April 14th, 2017 MOVIE: CEZANNE AND I STARRING: GUILLAUME CANET; GUILLAUME GALLIENNE; ALICE POL DIRECTED BY: DANIELE THOMPSON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 Stars (Out of 4) In Cezanne and I, the films focus is on the friendship between impressionist painter Paul Cezanne (Guillaume Gaillienne) and author Emile Zola (Guillaume Canet), but what I found most refreshing […]

April 1st, 2017 MOVIE: THE BLACKCOAT’S DAUGHTER STARRING: KIERNAN SHIPKA; LUCY BOYNTON; EMMA ROBERTS; JAMES REMAR DIRECTED BY: OZ PERKINS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) I was surprised that I couldn’t see my breathe after watching the bone chilling horror film- The Blackcoat’s Daughter. Eerie is one way to describe this film made […]

STARRING: EMMA WATSON; DAN STEVENS; LUKE EVANS; EWAN MCGREGOR   DIRECTED BY: BILL CONDON   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4)   Truth be told, the 1991 Disney animated version of Beauty and the Beast was the first movie I saw on a “date”. I put the word date in quotations for two […]

MOVIE: GET OUT STARRING: DANIEL KALUUYA; ALLISON WILLIAMS; CATHERINE KEENER; BRADLEY WHITFORD DIRECTED BY: JORDAN PEELE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Get used to seeing movies with the tag-line “from director Jordan Peele”. If you are wondering if Get Out is directed by THAT Jordan Peele, then you are correct. The same […]

February 22nd, 2017 MOVIE: BITTER HARVEST STARRING: MAX IRONS; SAMANTHA BARKS; BARRY PEPPER; TERENCE STAMP DIRECTED BY: GEORGE MENDELUK AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 STAR (Out of 4) At one point in Bitter Harvest, wise Ukrainian Grandpa, played by Terence Stamp, gives possibly the worst prayer I have ever heard. Now I am not the religious type, […]

February 21st, 2017 MOVIE: DEPARTURE STARRING: ALEX LAWTHER; JULIET STEVENSON; PHENIX BROSSARD; FINBAR LYNCH DIRECTED BY: ANDREW STEGGALL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) With the recent success of Moonlight, I hope there is a rise of films that tell more unique stories, about people who struggle with their identity, growing up in as […]

February 19th, 2017 MOVIE: BEFORE I FALL STARRING: ZOEY DEUTCH, HALSTON SAGE, LOGAN MILLER, JENNIFER BEALS DIRECTED BY: RY RUSSO-YOUNG AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The easiest way to describe Before I Fall is a combination of Groundhog Day and Mean Girls. In my eyes, that premise sets it up for failure, […]

January 22nd, 2017 MOVIE: BLACK SEA STARRING: JUDE LAW; SCOOT MCNAIRY; BEN MENDELSOHN; GRIGORIY DOBRYGIN; MICHAEL SMILEY DIRECTED BY: KEVIN MACDONALD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Director Kevin Macdonald’s (The Last King of Scotland) newest film, Black Sea is the first movie of 2015 that I will recommend to all of my […]

MOVIE: 20TH CENTURY WOMEN STARRING: ANNETTE BENING, GRETA GERWIG, ELLE FANNING, BILLY CRUDUP, LUCAS JADE ZUMANN  DIRECTED BY: MIKE MILLS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The dynamic of family, love, and living life that exist in Mike Mills newest film 20th Century Women is just about the greatest thing I have seen […]

DIRECTOR: A MONSTER CALLS STARRING: LEWIS MACDOUGALL; FELICITY JONES; SIGOURNEY WEAVER; LIAM NEESON DIRECTED BY: J. A. BAYONA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) It is hard to recommend A Monster Calls to audiences. It is a gentle, but powerful film, about a young boy who goes through the difficult stages of grief while […]

MOVIE: FENCES STARRING: DENZEL WASHINGTON; VIOLA DAVIS; STEPHEN HENDERSON; JOVAN ADEPO DIRECTED BY: DENZEL WASHINGTON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) If this acting thing doesn’t work out for Denzel Washington then I guess he will have a strong career as a director. The Oscar winning legend takes his first crack as the […]

MOVIE: LA LA LAND STARRING: EMMA STONE; RYAN GOSLING; JOHN LEGEND; ROSEMARIE DEWITT DIRECTED BY: DAMIEN CHAZELLE  AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) Someone once said, “we see ourselves in the movies we love.” I am not sure who that someone was, but I saw every bit of myself in La La Land, a […]

November 28th, 2016 MOVIE: ELLE STARRING: ISABELLE HUPPERT; LAURENT LAFITTE; CHARLES BERLING; JUDITH MAGRE DIRECTED BY: PAUL VERHOEVEN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Paul Verhoeven, the groundbreaking director of movies such as the erotic thriller Basic Instinct, begins his newest film- Elle, with the rape of our main character by a masked […]

November 17th, 2016 MOVIE: BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK STARRING: JOE ALWYN; KRISTEN STEWART; GARRETT HEDLUND; CHRIS TUCKER; STEVE MARTIN DIRECTED BY: ANG LEE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) If Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk was released in 2007, it would be an eye opening message, to those unaware learning about the post-traumatic […]

November 17th, 2016 MOVIE: BLEED FOR THIS STARRING: MILES TELLER; AARON ECKHART; CIARAN HINDS; KATEY SAGAL DIRECTED BY: BEN YOUNGER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) If boxing movies were the art of cinema drug of choice, by now the medium would have overdosed on the amount of heavy usage this sport has gotten […]

MOVIE: HACKSAW RIDGE STARRING: ANDREW GARFIELD; TERESA PALMER; VINCE VAUGHN; HUGO WEAVING DIRECTED BY: MEL GIBSON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge may be the most divisive motion picture of the year, but what cannot be said about the outcast director is that he pulls his punches. The oscar winner […]

October 21st, 2016 MOVIE: CERTAIN WOMEN STARRING: LAURA DERN; MICHELLE WILLIAMS; KRISTEN STEWART; LILY GLADSTONE DIRECTED BY: KELLY REICHARDT AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Behind every great movie is a great women. At the center of Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women is the heart and soul of women all over the world. There […]

October 21st, 2016 MOVIE: AMERICAN PASTORAL  STARRING: EWAN MCGREGOR; JENNIFER CONNELLY; DAKOTA FANNING DIRECTED BY: EWAN MCGREGOR AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 ½ STARS (Out of 4) American Pastoral is a large hunk of meat that director Ewan McGregor decided to bite into for his first time behind the camera. Although I respect the ambition from the […]

October 9th, 2016 MOVIE: DENIAL STARRING: RACHEL WEISZ; TOM WILKINSON; TIMOTHY SPALL; ANDREW SCOTT DIRECTED BY: MICK JACKSON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) I found Denial to be extremely important in the year 2016. Here is a movie about acclaimed writer and historian Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) who helped restore the respect […]

September 29th, 2016 MOVIE: DEEPWATER HORIZON STARRING: MARK WAHLBERG; KATE HUDSON; KURT RUSSELL; JOHN MALKOVICH DIRECTED BY: PETER BERG AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) When it comes to making movies, you can’t say that Peter Berg doesn’t do his homework. The director of Lone Survivor, submerged his actors and himself into the military […]

September 19th, 2016 MOVIE: BLAIR WITCH STARRING: JAMES ALLEN MCCUNE; CALLIE HERNANDEZ; CORBIN REID; BRANDON SCOTT DIRECTED BY: ADAM WINGUARD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) In 1999, The Blair Witch Project sent a shockwave across the film industry and changed the horror genre forever. With a cast of unknowns and a shoestring […]

September 10th, 2016 MOVIE: COMPLETE UNKNOWN STARRING: RACHEL WEISZ; MICHAEL SHANNON; KATHY BATES; DANNY GLOVER DIRECTED BY: JOSHUA MARSTON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 Stars (Out of 4) Complete Unknown has star power attempting to propel a bad movie into a mediocre one, but unfortunately, what’s needed is a script with more meat in the pages to […]

August 24th, 2016 MOVIE: DON’T BREATHE STARRING: STEPHEN LANG; JANE LEVY; DYLAN MINNETTE; DANIEL ZOVATTO DIRECTED BY: FEDE ALVAREZ AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ Stars (Out of 4) In twenty years from now, I can see Don’t Breathe being viewed as a classic thriller. It grabs your attention on the premise alone: a group of friends […]

STARRING: JAMIE DORNAN; CILLIAN MURPHY; TOBY JONES; CHARLOTTE LE BON   DIRECTED BY: SEAN ELLIS   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)   Anthropoid, drops into the middle of a cold and dark WWII Czechoslovakia, where Jan Kubis (Jamie Dornan) and Josef Gabcik (Cillian Murphy) are two of seven resistance fighters, parachuted into the […]

July 27th, 2016 MOVIE: DON’T THINK TWICE STARRING: MIKE BIRBIGLIA; KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY; GILLIAN JACOBS; CHRIS GETHARD DIRECTED BY: MIKE BIRBIGLIA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) Don’t Think Twice may as well have the tag line “The Movie that Leo Brady will love!” It’s not just a funny comedy, but a movie that knows […]

July 21st, 2016 MOVIE: CAPTAIN FANTASTIC STARRING: VIGGO MORTENSEN; GEORGE MACKAY; FRANK LANGELLA; KATHRYN HAHN DIRECTED BY: MATT ROSS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) You know the innocent children you see on reality TV shows such as Teen Mom or Sister Wives? I often wonder how they feel about being on such invasive […]

July 21st, 2016 MOVIE: CAFE SOCIETY STARRING: JESSE EISENBERG; KRISTIN STEWART; STEVE CARELL; BLAKE LIVELY DIRECTED Y: WOODY ALLEN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 Stars (Out of 4) In Woody Allen’s last two films, Magic in the Moonlight and Irrational Man, I sensed a tone of anger. There was a depressed bitterness, filling the words and actions […]

MOVIE: ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS STARRING: MIA WASIKOWSKA; JOHNNY DEPP; HELENA BONHAM CARTER; ANNE HATHAWAY; SACHA BARON COHEN DIRECTED BY: JAMES BOBIN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 STAR (Out of 4) On our ride over to the screening of Alice Through the Looking Glass, my wife and I pondered to find a movie where the first […]

STARRING: MARION COTILLARD; PHILIPPE KATERINE; JEAN ROCHEFORT   DIRECTED BY: CHRISTIAN DESMARES; FRANCK EKINCI   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4)   April and the Extraordinary World is what I would call a brilliant film. I will save my praise for the animation a bit later, but what I really loved about the […]

MOVIE: GREEN ROOM STARRING: ANTON YELCHIN; IMOGEN POOTS; PATRICK STEWART; ALIA SHAWKAT DIRECTED BY: JEREMY SAULNIER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Green Room stays planted in the frontal lobes of your mind for a long time. Like a machete wedged in your neck, it sticks out, having all the features of an […]

April 15th, 2016 MOVIE: CRIMINAL STARRING: KEVIN COSTNER; RYAN REYNOLDS; GARY OLDMAN; GAL GADOT; ALICE EVE; TOMMY LEE JONES DIRECTED BY: ARIEL VROMEN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 Star (Out of 4) Criminal does not entertain as much as it leaves you questioning the movies purpose, point, and plot. Starring Kevin Costner, sporting a Bart Simpson-like haircut, […]

MOVIE: HARDCORE HENRY STARRING: SHARLTO COPPLEY; HALEY BENNETT; DANILA KOZLOVSKY  DIRECTED BY: ILYA NAISHULLER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Hardcore Henry is in your face. Literally. If any movie was ever appropriate to use the cliched phrases such as “action packed” and “a pure adrenaline rush”, this is the movie to use them, […]

April 1st, 2016 MOVIE: EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! STARRING: BLAKE JENNER; TYLER HOECHLIN; ZOEY DEUTCH; GLEN POWELL DIRECTED BY: RICHARD LINKLATER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) If you have ever wondered what the living, breathing, dictionary description of male college-bro meat heads would be like, look no further than the ensemble of Everybody […]

April 1st, 2016 MOVIE: BORN TO BE BLUE STARRING: ETHAN HAWKE; CARMEN EJOGO; CALLUM KEITH RENNIE DIRECTED BY: ROBERT BOUDREAU AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Born to Be Blue is as cool as the icy color in its title. It is a thick wisp of smoke in the air, a gentle tap […]

STARRING: HENRY CAVILL; BEN AFFLECK; AMY ADAMS; JESSE EISENBERG   DIRECTED BY: ZACK SNYDER   AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4)    It’s hard not to be begrudgingly cynical about the comic book movie machine that created Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Director Zack Snyder (300; Watchmen) on the surface has made a […]

March 11th, 2016 MOVIE: EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT STARRING: NILBIO TORRES, JAN BIJVOET, ANTONIO BOLIVAR, YAUENKU MIGUE DIRECTED BY: CIRO GUERRA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Embrace of the Serpent is a journey through the Amazon jungle and a story of survival for native tribes that live off the land South America. […]

March 10th, 2016 MOVIE: EYE IN THE SKY STARRING: HELEN MIRREN, AARON PAUL, ALAN RICKMAN, BARKHAD ABDI DIRECTED BY: GAVIN HOOD AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Eye in the Sky succeeds in generating tension with a series of military procedures involved in the war on terror, and it does so in a way […]

February 12th, 2016 MOVIE: BOY AND THE WORLD STARRING: VINICIUS GARCIA; ALE ABREU; LU HORTA DIRECTED BY: ALE ABREU AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) Boy and the World is an artistic journey, into an imagination made entirely out of colored pencils. On the surface, the animation looks simple, a blank white page, with […]

December 3rd, 2015 MOVIE: CREED STARRING: MICHAEL B. JORDAN; SYLVESTER STALLONE; TESSA THOMPSON; PHYLICIA RASHAD DIRECTED BY: RYAN COOGLER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) At the end of Creed, Director Ryan Coogler films an image that showcases the true courage and strength of a person in life, more than any boxing match […]

November 22nd, 2015 MOVIE: ENTERTAINMENT STARRING: GREGG TURKINGTON, JOHN C. REILLY, TYE SHERIDAN, MICHAEL CERA, AMY SEIMETZ DIRECTED BY: RICK ALVERSON AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 1 STAR (Out of 4) There is a divide amongst film critics on the new film from director Rick Alverson, ironically titled- Entertainment. That title is clearly supposed to be a funny […]

November 20th, 2015 MOVIE: COOL APOCALYPSE  STARRING: CHELSEA DAVID; ADAM OVERBERG; KEVIN WEHBY; NINA GANET DIRECTED BY: MICHAEL GLOVER SMITH AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS If the end of the world was on its way, then I’d be alright with spending my time watching Michael Glover Smith’s debut film Cool Apocalypse. Filmed in Chicago and shot […]

November 1st, 2015 MOVIE: EXTRAORDINARY TALES STARRING: CHRISTOPHER LEE, BELA LUGOSI, GUILLERMO DEL TORO, ROGER CORMAN DIRECTED BY: RAUL GARCIA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) When putting together an anthology film with animated tellings of five Edgar Allen Poe stories, sometimes the best move is to just let them speak for themselves. […]

MOVIE: A BRILLIANT YOUNG MIND STARRING: ASA BUTTERFIELD; SALLY HAWKINS; RAFE SPALL; EDDIE MARSAN; JO YANG DIRECTED BY: MORGAN MATTHEWS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) 2015 is becoming the year in cinema where being a math and science genius is cool again. With films like Ridley Scott’s The Martian or Danny Boyle’s Steve […]

MOVIE: 99 HOMES STARRING: ANDREW GARFIELD; MICHAEL SHANNON; LAURA DERN; NOAH LOMAX DIRECTED BY: RAMIN BAHRANI AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ Stars (Out of 4) There are moments in director Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes that present themselves like a horror film. With a jolt of reality, that will strike fear into all of us, the Man […]

August 15th, 2015 MOVIE: COP CAR STARRING: KEVIN BACON; JAMES FREEDSON-JACKSON; HAYS WELLFORD; CAMRYN MANHEIM  DIRECTED BY: JON WATTS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) The big news surrounding director Jon Watts is that he has inked a deal to direct Marvel’s next Spider-Man reboot. The trend has been that Marvel hires directors […]

August 12th, 2015 MOVIE: DIGGING FOR FIRE STARRING: JAKE JOHNSON; ROSEMARIE DEWITT; ORLANDO BLOOM; RON LIVINGSTON; BRIE LARSON DIRECTED BY: JOE SWANBERG AMovieGuy.com’s Rating: 2 ½ Stars It started to nibble at the back of my mind, and I couldn’t help thinking about the new film Digging for Fire after watching it. Directed by Joe […]

July 3rd, 2015 MOVIE: AMY STARRING: AMY WINEHOUSE; TONY BENNETT; YASIIN BEY; MARK RONSON; PETE DOHERTY DIRECTED BY: ASIF KAPADIA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) This is the Amy Winehouse I never knew. I guess I had a different image of the late, great singer when I heard her on the radio. […]

STARRING: DAVID DASTMALCHIAN; KIM SHAW; JOHN HEARD DIRECTED BY: COLLIN SCHIFFLI AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4)  “Animals” is an important film for Chicago. It is a representation of how good films can be that are made in the Windy City. It also involves the arrival of a spectacular talent in actor/writer David […]

April 11th, 2015 MOVIE: CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA STARRING: JULIETTE BINOCHE, KRISTEN STEWART, CHLOE GRACE MORETZ DIRECTED BY: OLIVIER ASSAYAS AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Clouds of Sils Maria starts with a successful actress, her youthful years behind her (Juliette Binoche), her well prepared publicist (Kristen Stewart), the death of the elder […]

April 9th, 2015 MOVIE: EX MACHINA STARRING: DOMHNALL GLEESON; OSCAR ISAAC; ALICIA VIKANDER DIRECTED BY: ALEX GARLAND AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) The eerie truth of Alex Garland’s science fiction film Ex Machina, is how real all the science is becoming. While watching this instant classic about two men studying an artificial intelligence […]

MOVIE: FURIOUS 7 STARRING: VIN DIESEL; PAUL WALKER; MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ; JASON STATHAM; LUDACRIS DIRECTED BY: JAMES WAN AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) A movie clip montage of Paul Walker and the words- “For Paul”- come across the screen at the end of Furious 7. I never knew a movie with this many explosions […]

MOVIE: GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM STARRING: RONIT ELKABETZ; SIMON ABKARIAN; MENASHE NOY; GABI AMRANI; DALIA BEGER DIRECTED BY: RONIT ELKABETZ; SHLOMI ELKABETZ AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 4 STARS (Out of 4) While watching Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, try not to feel like a child caught between the cross hairs of a gruesome five […]

February 26th, 2015 MOVIE: ANA MARIA IN NOVELA LAND  STARRING: EDY GANEM; LUIS GUZMAN; MERCEDES MASON; ELIZABETH PENA; MICHAEL STEGER; NESTOR SERRANO DIRECTED BY: GEORGINA GARCIA RIEDEL AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)  Ana Maria in Novela Land needs more reviews from critics like myself, because this is a charming movie. It pokes fun […]

January 23rd, 2015 MOVIE: CAKE STARRING: JENNIFER ANISTON; SAM WORTHINGTON; ADRIANA BARRAZA; ANNA KENDRICK DIRECTED BY: DANIEL BARNZ AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) We are supposed to feel emotions while watching Director Daniel Barnz’s film, Cake, but the only feeling that I got was that this entire film was desperate to prove to […]

MOVIE: ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY STARRING: STEVE CARELL; JENNIFER GARNER; ED OXENBOULD, DYLAN MINNETTE; KERRIS DORSEY DIRECTED BY: MIGUEL ARTETA AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 3 STARS Although it has an exhausting title, the typical Disney chim-chim cheery moments, and is filled with so much cuteness you could puke, Alexander and the […]

STARRING: ANTONIO BANDERAS; DYLAN MCDERMOTT; MELANIE GRIFFITH; ROBERT FORSTER DIRECTED BY: GABE IBANEZ AMOVIEGUY.COM’S RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)  Automata will draw comparisons to a number of science fiction films. It will be lumped in with a list of movies; from Blade Runner, Oblivion, Elysium, District 9, and even a little bit of Mad […]

October 10th, 2014 MOVIE: DRACULA UNTOLD STARRING: LUKE EVANS; SARAH GADON; DOMINIC COOPER; CHARLES DANCE DIRECTED BY: GARY SHORE AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) It should be called “Dracula Incomplete”, or “Dracula the first few days”, either way Dracula Untold is an origin story that is rushed and unfinished. It stars Luke Evans […]

STARRING: ANNABELLE WALLIS; WARD HORTON; ALFRE WOODARD; TONY AMENDOLA DIRECTED BY: JOHN R. LEONETTI AMovieGuy.com’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4)  The first half hour of Annabelle is interesting, until it makes sure to hit every horror film cliché on the nose.  The movie itself is a cliché, since it is about a creepy doll […]

MOVIE: GONE GIRL STARRING: BEN AFFLECK; ROSAMUND PIKE; TYLER PERRY; NEIL PATRICK HARRIS; SELA WARD DIRECTED BY: DAVID FINCHER AMovieGuy.com’s RATING:  4 STARS (Out of 4) I lay in bed last night, with my beautiful wife asleep, my fluffy white dog at the foot of our bed, in my happy Chicago apartment, and I could […]

MOVIE: ABOUT ALEX STARRING: NATE PARKER; AUBREY PLAZA; JASON RITTER; MAGGIE GRACE; MAX GREENFIELD; MAX MINGHELLA; JANE LEVY DIRECTED BY: JESSE ZWICK A MOVIE GUY’S RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Fans of film in the 20-30 year age group float in obscurity. If you are not a fanboy, when do you get a […]

August 14th, 2014 MOVIE: THE EXPENDABLES 3 STARRING: SYLVESTER STALLONE, JASON STATHAM, WESLEY SNIPES, HARRISON FORD, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER DIRECTED BY: PATRICK HUGHES A MOVIE GUY’S RATING: 2 ½ STARS (Out of 4) Cloaked in shadows of pre and post production controversy, comes the 3rd installment in the Expendables  franchise. Despite the fact that an actor […]

July 17th, 2014 MOVIE: BOYHOOD STARRING: ELLAR COLTRANE; PATRICIA ARQUETTE; ETHAN HAWKE; LORELEI LINKLATER DIRECTED BY: RICHARD LINKLATER A MOVIE GUY’S RATING: 3 ½ STARS  All the praise that other film critics have said about the film Boyhood is real. You can add this film critic into the pool of fans of the film. It […]

MOVIE: A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST STARRING: SETH MACFARLANE; CHARLIZE THERON; GIOVANNI RIBISI; AMANDA SEYFRIED; LIAM NEESON; SARAH SILVERMAN; NEIL PATRICK HARRIS DIRECTED BY: SETH MACFARLANE A MOVIE GUY’S RATING: 1 ½ STARS (out of 4) There are quite possibly a million reasons why Seth MacFarlane’s second movie A Millions Ways to […]

January 24th, 2014 MOVIE: THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN STARRING: JOHAN HELDENBERGH; VEERLE BAETENS; NELL CATTRYSSE DIRECTED BY: FELIX VAN GROENINGEN A MOVIE GUY’S RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4) The Broken Circle Breakdown never pulls punches when it comes to telling the complex realities of life that exist in the films story. Director Felix Van […]

December 26th, 2013 MOVIE: AMERICAN HUSTLE STARRING: CHRISTIAN BALE; AMY ADAMS; BRADLEY COOPER; JENNIFER LAWRENCE; JEREMY RENNER DIRECTED BY: DAVID O. RUSSELL AMOVIE GUY.Com’s RATING: 4 STARS (OUT OF 4) American Hustle is a film made from the same cloth as great movies of the past. If you have a passion for film; a love […]

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