Film Review for Northern Express Published January 7, 2023 Opening on over 12,000 screens in today’s full cinematic array of DCP, IMAX and IMAX 3D choices and flavors, the 13 year wait for James Cameron’s sequel Avatar: The Way of Water is over. …

Film Review for Northern Express Published December 24, 2022 What should be obvious from the title alone is that famed director Steven Spielberg’s highly personal moving-image memoir The Fabelmans is not a biography per se, but a fantasy of a biography. …

Film Review Published December 30, 2022 It was almost impossible for me to tell whether the frenetic and indulgent opus Babylon was a celebration, indictment, or parable of the Golden Years of Hollywood — but if the significant investment of time (three years in the making), money ($110 million+) and…

Film Review for Northern Express Published December 3, 2022 Revenge may not be a dish best served cold after all if the piping hot temperature of director Mark Mylod’s delightful debut satire The Menu has anything to say about it. The organic and certified fresh thriller offers a full palette…

Film Review for Northern Express Published November 21, 2022 You don’t need to be familiar with every hit in the canon of bizarro songs that combine pop with counter culture in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story in order to enjoy it, but if you are, this might become one of…

Film Review for Northern Express Published November 5, 2022 American writer and director Todd Field takes a Eurocentric approach to his cinematic stories, allowing a patient pace, hypnotic quiet, and highly nuanced actors themselves to drive his narratives (In the Bedroom and Little Children). Field’s first project in 16 years…

Film Reviews for Northern Express Published October 21, 2022 Adventure, Conservation and Inspiration (writ intentionally large) are the founding pillars that fuel the unique Fresh Coast Film Festival — which just took place as it does each October in the upper peninsula in Marquette. …

Film Review for Northern Express Published October 10, 2022 Please read: this review contains major spoilers, none of which will ruin a film that has more plot problems than Olivia Wilde’s explanation of what really happened behind-the-scenes of filming it. The highly stylish but ultimately disappointing thriller “Don’t Worry Darling”…

Film Review for Northern Express Published September 24, 2022 Before you ever settle into your seats, and if you’ve seen the tense and surprising trailer beforehand, “The Woman King” is a film experience that you already know will end in an epic and final battle of battles … building in…