BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 6/9/2023

BLUE JEAN

“The film poses a nightmare situation that no one should ever have to navigate – though, thanks to anti-LGBTQ+ red state laws, too many people here and now in America are faced with dilemmas of the same sort.” – Kilian Melloy, EDGE Media Network

FLAMIN’ HOT

Flamin’ Hot is a pleasant fable which should not be confused with a documentary.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

 

 

HOLLYWOOD DREAMS & NIGHTMARES: THE ROBERT ENGLUND STORY

“Englund seems to have mastered the skill his predecessor Boris Karloff had of being able to frighten audiences on the screen while becoming a beloved figure in real life.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

 

BROOKLYN 45

“It’s a horror movie for adults, particularly those who have left their youth far behind, and know what it is to wrestle with the demons of one’s past.” – Daniel M. Kimmel, North Shore Movies

 

BOFCA REVIEW ROUNDUP: 6/2/2023

THE NEIGHBOR

“Pasquale Marrazzo’s story of two men in love in Milano traces a love affair that’s shadowed by the vicious predations of a neo-Nazi and his group of followers, but somehow loses steam in the aftermath of a brutal homophobic attack.” – Kilian Melloy, EDGE Media Network

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

“Daniel Kaluya as Hobie Brown was everything I dreamed he be.” – Byron McNeal, On The Reel On Tumblr

“It’s tough to improve on one of the most inventive animated pieces of entertainment ever made, and yet this movie does so.” – Rodney Brown, Nerd Caliber

SHOOTING STARS

“This adaptation of LeBron James’s and Buzz Bissinger’s 2009 book would have done better as a six-to-eight-hour limited series. There’s a compelling story here, but this version isn’t it.”David Riedel, Chicago Reader