An impressive war film from director Guy Ritchie, The Covenant boasts a compelling premise that seems like a cross between The Killing Fields and The Kite Runner, but coming from a military POV rather than the journalist and civilian perspectives those films took, respectively.
Set in 2018, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Master Sergeant John Kinley, a soldier stationed in Afghanistan who leads a squad that is tasked with searching for IEDs. After the team's interpreter is killed, he is assigned…
This is a review of the entire third season of Star Trek: Picard, which plays like one long 8-hour movie. I will begin by noting that I am a huge Star Trek fan, and that Star Trek: The Next Generation was and still remains my favorite of all the Star Trek shows. I loved the wonderful stories, the characters, the world-building, and the special effects. The show gave us a great seven year run (well, truthfully, more like a great…
Speaking as someone who is not a huge fan of the original, Top Gun: Maverick is a fantastic film, one of the best sequels ever made and a rare example of a film that manages to surpass its predecessor in every conceivable way.
Set decades after the original film, we follow an aged Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise), who is a test pilot for an experimental aircraft. Showing that he still has some of the same rebellious qualities that…
The Girl on a Bulldozer is a riveting and intense mystery drama from South Korea. The film focuses on a 19-year old young woman named Gu Hye-Young (Kim Hye-Yoon), whose family which consists of her father and younger brother are in a struggling financial situation.
Hye-Young deeply loves and is fiercely committed to her younger brother but has a strained relationship with her father, whom she sees as irresponsible and unreliable. One day, she finds out that her father was…
