A riveting prison drama that takes place after time in prison. “Ricky” was the last film I watched virtually from the Sundance Film Festival last year, and this year, I was given […]
Ricky
Michael, Mother Mary, I Swear, Fuze, and The Dark Wizard Podcast Reviews
CJ reviews movies about pop stars, people with Tourette’s, thieves, and climbers on the air. I’m part of a radio station known as NEWHD Radio, which not only hires people on the […]
Fuze
A pretzel of a heist and bomb thriller. A decade ago, David Mackenzie made one of the best bank heist movies of all time called “Hell or High Water.” A decade later, […]
Michael
No one wants to be defeated in this solid MJ biopic. My earliest Michael Jackson memory was on my late grandmother’s “Free Willy” VHS tape, which had his music video “Will You […]
The Dark Wizard
This Dean Potter doc climbs to the top and flies in the air. No, “The Dark Wizard” is not a new “Harry Potter” movie or series. It’s a 4-part HBO documentary series […]
Mother Mary
What pop stars deal with in the A24 world. Anne Hathaway plays a Sia, Taylor Swift, and Lady Gaga pop star named Mother Mary, who is going through an existential crisis and […]
John Magaro on “Omaha”
My interview with a good father playing a bad father. After my viewing of “Omaha,” I spoke with John Magaro, who plays a father taking his kids on a cross country road […]
Over Your Dead Body
Talk about couple’s therapy. “Over Your Dead Body” is another one of those violent IFC Films that have more courage than a lot of commercial films that overdose on the comedy and […]
Omaha
We’ll stop for gas, and then push on to where this trip goes. When I saw “Tuner” with my cousins at the Boulder International Film Festival, they were conflicted by the ending […]
I Swear
Don’t be offended by the 4-star words out of his mouth. Here’s the opening to “I Swear.” Everyone is getting ready to see the Queen of England award John Davidson, who has […]
