Mindy Rast-Keenan Archives -

ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL MOVIE REVIEW Musicals are a film genre that never truly vanishes. Rather, it booms and wanes in popularity. We’ve had the Rodgers and Hammerstein films of classic Broadway shows, the 50’s road movies, the Disney’s animated Renaissance era that tricked two generations into watching and loving musicals, Heck, Chicago even […]

SPIRIT HALLOWEEN: THE MOVIE MOVIE REVIEW Let’s get straight to the point here. We all knew that a Halloween movie based off a seasonal store that likes to pop it’s head up every Fall (like my herpes) was going to be “iffy” at best. Oh boy, were we wrong. Take a coming of age story, […]

MEET CUTE MOVIE REVIEW What would you do if you could travel through time? Kill Hitler? That’s a classic, but then you might end up with a real Smitson. Who? Exactly. Okay, well how about using the ability to loop back on your own life to recapture the magic of your chance meeting with the […]

DRIFTING HOME MOVIE REVIEW Acclaimed writer/director of animation Hiroyasu Ishida (Penguin Highway) presents the newest anime film from Netflix, Drifting Home.  Little kid friends Kosuke and Natsumi’s have been drifting apart.  In Junior High they have their own cliques but back in the day the two were inseparable.  When they get the news that the […]

THE GOOD BOSS MOVIE REVIEW It has to be hard to be the boss… the head honcho… the big cheese. Whatever pet name you have for your superior at work, just know that they have a tough life. Making sure your employees are satisfied with their work/life balance, meeting deadlines with the warehouse, and even […]

SAMARITAN MOVIE REVIEW Twin brothers, both born with strength beyond human ability, trying to simply live their lives in a world that sees them as freaks, and fears them as gods. Escaping a deliberate house fire that kills their parents, the boys find themselves on opposite sides, one compassionate towards humanity, and one consumed with […]

THE ORVILLE: NEW HORIZONS SERIES REVIEW The Orville: New Horizons. Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterpri- oh, wait sorry! Wrong show! Ok, Let’s try that again. After a three-year hiatus, The Orville is back and…maybe better than ever? Ed Mercer (Seth MacFarlane) and his intrepid crew continue their exploration […]

RISE OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE MOVIE The year is 2044. An alien invasion has conquered the planet. In a last ditch effort to save the last vestiges of humanity, a young man is sent backwards in time to the point where the apocalypse started, and find the allies that will ultimately save […]

ALLEGORIA MOVIE REVIEW Art. What is art? What is art at its very core essence? Art is the expression of human creativity and imagination. It is the power of creation, and, in turn, is one of the few ways that we, as mere mortals, hold the power of the gods. But what happens when the […]

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY SEASON 3 REVIEW The Hargreeves family is finally back from their jaunt through 1960s Dallas and into the present day. Or so they think. The third season of Netflix’s adaptation of the Dark Horse comic from Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá picks up from where we last left our dysfunctional family as they […]

THE DUKE MOVIE REVIEW Truth is so very often stranger than fiction, and that’s why true events sometimes make truly fantastic films. And when you have the likes of British acting royalty such as Dame Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, and direction from the wonderful Roger Michell (Notting Hill), you’re in such capable hands, it would […]