Review – Coyote vs. ACME
Last year when I reviewed The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, I noted that it was hard to review a film like this without bias, as any review would be “colored by the fact that the brand...
View ArticleReview – Bad Counselors
Faith-based films continue to be one of the strangest genres in filmmaking. Though at its prime major Hollywood studios were producing their own sub-studios to appeal to American evangelicals, the...
View ArticleReview – Project Hail Mary (2026)
Novelist Andy Weir impressed the world with his attention to detail in his 2011 fictional story, The Martian, which was later adapted into the hit film with the same name in 2015, starring Matt Damon....
View ArticleReview – Oh. What. Fun.
As a writer who has spent an unhealthy amount of time in the past two years thinking about Christmas movies, I can’t help but be interested in each year’s selection of new ones. The last few years...
View ArticleReview – Eternity (2025)
One of the earliest lines in Eternity is a sardonic comment made by two bickering old folks in a car. When pushed to avoid criticizing a sick friend in the hospital, the husband responds, “We don’t...
View ArticleRetro Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
If you’re not feeling old yet, get ready for the 35th anniversary of 1990’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Hosted by Fathom Entertainment, the independent classic film has returned to select cinemas...
View ArticleRetro Review – The Bad Guys
This is not a movie I anticipated liking. Some of the best experiences ever are when we don’t expect to enjoy something, and it takes us completely by surprise. In fact, the only reason I saw this was...
View ArticleReview – Happy Gilmore 2
What does Adam Sandler mean in the year 2025? Between 1995 and 1999, he experienced one of the best runs of comedy films for any actor coming out of Saturday Night Live. Afterwards, his filmography...
View ArticleReview – A Minecraft Movie
The creators of A Minecraft Movie had their work cut out for them. After all, how do you make a decent film out of a video game franchise that is literally built off pixelated graphics, and players...
View ArticleReview – The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
I must admit a certain bias in reviewing a film like this. Any review of recent Looney Tunes projects is colored by the fact that the brand has been chewed up and spit out by the current Warner Bros....
View ArticleReview – Journey to You (2025)
I don’t usually review Hallmark movies for reasons that are probably not hard to discern. Most of them are too similar. The style and structure of a Hallmark movie, being what they are, make it hard to...
View ArticleReview – The Unbreakable Boy
As I recently wrote in a piece for The Federalist, the faith-based film market is in a curious position. The age of films like God’s Not Dead, Fireproof, and Heaven Is for Real has slowly mutated into...
View ArticleReview – Anora
First hitting the film festival circuit in May 2024, Anora won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and has since experienced a dream run, picking up nominations and awards along the way. Now it’s up for a Best...
View ArticleReview – Dear Santa (2024)
The recent trailer for Dear Santa drew a brief negative reaction this past month before completely disappearing. Curiously, the film quietly dropped on Paramount+ over Thanksgiving week without fanfare...
View ArticleRetro Review – Election (1999)
Sometimes current events can put us into the mood to watch some of the classic films of the past. When the pandemic first hit in 2020, people’s minds were trying to grapple with what it all meant, and...
View ArticleReview – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Dallas Jenkins has built an empire in the Christian filmmaking world in just a few short years. From his early years in ministry at Harvest Bible Chapel, to faith-based films like Hometown Legend and...
View ArticleReview – Piece By Piece
Morgan Neville has endured an unusual rise in the history of documentary filmmakers. He became one of America’s only celebrity documentarians with his critically acclaimed 2018 film Won’t You Be My...
View ArticleReview – Am I Racist?
Am I a racist? What IS a racist? What is racism? The term has skyrocketed in frequency of use and expanded in application in recent times beyond what anyone can clearly or consistently recognize, let...
View ArticleReview – ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!
Since I’ve been getting negative comments of late for reviewing allegedly grotesque, harmful content, it doesn’t seem like adding more wood to that fire will hurt me much. I respect my fellow...
View ArticleReview – Deadpool & Wolverine
It is fascinating to think that the test footage for Deadpool leaked a decade ago. Summer 2014 was at the peak of the superhero genre, with Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain America: Winter Soldier...
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