The performances shine over these recycled phone calls. You have to know your past in order to know your future: a lesson that everyone should acknowledge. It’s not just apply to history, […]
The Guilty
Blue Bayou, Cry Macho, and Tammy Faye Podcast Reviews
CJ reviews movies about immigrants, religious figures, and old timers on the air. I’ve joined a radio station known as NewHD, which will not only hire people on the Autism spectrum, but […]
Copshop, The Lost Leonardo, Prisoners of the Ghostland, Blue Bayou, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Cry Macho, and Tammy Faye Video Reviews
CJ’s video reviews star Clint Eastwood, Jessica Chastain, Gerard Butler, and Nicolas Cage. This week’s video reviews consist of Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo in the action thriller “Copshop,” the painting documentary […]
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Jessica Chastain keeps her faith as the make-up wearing televangelist. I’m not a religious person (I apologize), so I don’t see the campy religious films like last week’s “Show Me the Father.” […]
Cry Macho
Clint Eastwood’s latest is not “A Perfect World.” Clint Eastwood has been able to survive the next few generation of filmmaking with such masterpieces as “Million Dollar Baby,” “Gran Torino,” “American Sniper,” […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Catchy tunes, true reality, and love make this LGBTQ musical inspiring. “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” informs us that it’s based on a true story, and that it added the singing and dancing. […]
Blue Bayou
Justin Chon’s performance swims, while his direction sinks in the bayou. “Blue Bayou,” written and directed by and starring Justin Chon, has a wise concept regarding an Asian character raised in America […]
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Nicolas Cage kills it when he deals with psychos, Samurai, and ghosts. The setting of “Prisoners of the Ghostland” basically combines the American frontier with a Samurai town with its own blend […]
Copshop
Who would win in a fight? The conman, the hitman, or the rookie cop? This year alone, director Joe Carnahan and Frank Grillo have both collaborated on two films: the time warp […]
The Lost Leonardo
The doc on the controversial male Mona Lisa gets its money’s worth. I’m sorry if I’m late with this review of the new documentary of “The Lost Leonardo,” but I was on […]
