FILM REVIEW // Ambulance

Published April 8, 2022 at ZekeFilm.org. Michael Bay’s Latest Bit of Majestic Chaos is High on Speed DIRECTOR: MICHAEL BAY/2022 Bay is back, baby!  Okay, it hasn’t technically been that long since a new installment of Michael Bay’s singular vision of mayhem was released, but it’s been at least a decade since one felt like an event—perhaps the …

BLU-RAY REVIEW // What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)

Published October 4, 2021 at ZekeFilm.org. George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore Spread a Pandemic Worth Catching DIRECTOR: GEORGE SEATON/1968 BLU-RAY STREET DATE: AUGUST 24, 2021/KL STUDIO CLASSICS I cannot imagine a weirder movie to watch in 2021.  The premise: An airborne virus appears in New York City thanks to a flying animal traveling from …

FILM REVIEW // Soul

Published March 15, 2021 at ZekeFilm.org. Inside Out Meets Mr. Holland’s Opus in Pixar’s Latest—And Greatest? DIRECTORS: PETE DOCTER AND KEMP POWERS (CO-DIRECTOR)/2020 Plenty of thought (and many a joke) has been put into Pixar’s standard “what if” plot engines: What if monsters and superheroes were real? What if toys and cars were alive? What if bugs or fish or rats had feelings? Heck, what if feelings had feelings? …

FILM REVIEW // Mortal Engines

Published December 13, 2018 at ZekeFilm.org. You’ve Already Read This Review Because You’ve Already Seen Mortal Engines DIRECTED BY CHRISTIAN RIVERS/2018 (Insert attention-grabbing opener here.) I usually try to open with a plot summary, a question, a quote, a Hollywood trend, perhaps a personal anecdote. But with Mortal Engines, what’s the point? I’ve already written this review—several …

FILM REVIEW // Home Again

Published Sept. 18, 2017 at ZekeFilm.org. Reese Witherspoon Charms in Her Return to Romantic Comedies DIRECTOR: HALLIE MEYERS-SHYER/2017 Alice Kinney is starting over. After separating from her husband of 15 years in New York, Alice (Reese Witherspoon) has moved back into her childhood home in Los Angeles. She’s trying to settle her two grade school …

FILM REVIEW // Jackie

Published Jan. 6, 2017 for the film review site I created, Crowd vs. Critic. Each film is reviewed twice, once from the Crowd perspective for its entertainment value (Popcorn Potential) and once from the Critic perspective for its Artistic Taste. CROWD REVIEW // November 22, 1963. If you’ve lived long enough to study a at …