Let’s see, Isla Fisher survives a deadly car crash and a year later is preggers and moves into an estate in wine country with her husband and starts seeing what she thinks are signs of a haunting, to the disbelief of her hubby and friends. And from there, the convoluted plot of this Lifetime-esque movie […]
Don’t let the well produced trailer fool you. This horror flick, about a couple with a newborn who experience creepy things that go bump in the night after moving into the Irish countryside, turns into the run of the mill schlockfest after the first few minutes.
Based on the hit Broadway play, this iconic, exuberant, gleefully cheesy ode to high school is chock full of hit songs that have withheld the test of time and features equally iconic performances from Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta and Stockard Channing. An enthusiastic A+
Yes, it’s a retread of its wildly popular predecessor with the sex roles reversed, and yes, it lacks the star power of the original, but that said, the film has some very catchy songs and is entertaining in its own right, with Michelle Pfeiffer as the head of Pink Ladies “gang” who is swept off […]
The fascinating life of legendary jazz and blues singer turned civil rights activist Nina Simone is documented in a series of never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with friends, family and Simone herself. Although it lacks the breadth of material packed into fellow Oscar Best Documentary nominee and winner “Amy,” it is still an extremely well […]
This schmaltzy tale of a young pregnant girl and a snowboarder taking refuge from a snowstorm at a once elegant, now boarded up Utah ski resort has all the ridiculous, eye-rolling sweetness of a Hallmark movie, but its likeable cast and inspirational story about lost souls finding joy as a result of happenstance results in […]
The Reelness’ #1 movie of all time. This film, based on the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, stars Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Margaret Avery in this heart wrenching portrait of an African-American woman surviving trials, tribulations and triumphs in early 1900s rural Georgia. Steven Spielberg directs this emotion-packed story of […]
The fact that this movie, filmed over 12 years, allows you to see a young boy and his sister grow up and their divorced parents grow into middle age in real time is fascinating in itself. But this groundbreaking time capsule of a film also happens to be one of the most realistic coming-of-age movies […]
In this reboot of the character made famous in the Tom Clancy’s spy novels, Chris Pine is the CIA analyst trying to save the world from a global economic depression at the hands of an evil (yawn) Russian billionaire. This movie is reminiscent of that feeling you get when you buy a can of whole […]
When a wealthy drug lord recruits a small time, Denver marijuana dealer (Jason Sudeikis) to haul a shipment of weed from Mexico back to the U.S., he rents an RV and recruits his neighbors – a stripper, a runaway, and a nerdy kid – to form a fake family and throw off suspicion from authorities. But […]