Female Film Critics 24/375
Think Stranger Things meets Cocoon, and you’ll come up with The Burroughs, Netflix’s new sci-fi horror dramedy that introduces a group of seniors living in a supposedly idyllic retirement community in the New Mexico desert. This series attracted immediate attention but, unfortunately, as the eight episodes unfold, the cheesy, predictable plot disappoints, concluding on an ambiguous note.
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If you have been living under a coral reef for a while…this is the movie about the Octopus book everyone has been reading since Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel hit the best seller list in 2022. Remarkably Bright Creatures is ultimately a heartwarming story, but takes us through change, grief, abandonment and growth before we get all the feels. Writer/director Olivia Newman’s screenplay adaption takes the best parts of the novel making it a multilayered therapy session disguised as a Sweet n Low streamer.
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Sally Field, Lewis Pullman and a rust-colored giant Pacific octopus team up for Remarkably Bright Creatures, a tedious tale of loss, loneliness and love. Set in the quaint, picturesque, seaside town of Sowell Bay in the state of Washington, it revolves around Tova (Field), a widowed cleaning lady at the local aquarium, and a stranded rock musician, Cameron (Pullman), who are befriended by perceptive Marcellus (voiced by Alfred Molina), a captive cephalopod.
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The Instigators reunites Matt Damon with the Affleck brothers, Casey as a co-star and Ben as producer, in this heist comedy set in their hometown of Boston where the accents are as thick as the bumbling criminals trying to stay one step ahead of the law. Damon is an ex-Marine, a divorced dad wanting to do right by his son. Casey is a wayward ex-con with a drinking problem. The two are thrown together as part of an inept Ocean’s Eleven tasked with robbing the city’s corrupt mayor. When the caper collapses, the would-be thieves find themselves on the run from not only the police, but the profiteering politician’s henchmen.
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When actor-turned-director David Oyelowo was growing up, he missed the sense of magic and wonder that he yearned to experience on-screen and was acutely aware of the lack of mid-budget family films featuring performers of color. Set in the Pacific Northwest, this story revolves around inquisitive 11 year-old Gunnar Boone , whose mother is dying of leukemia and military father, recently returned from Japan, just moved the family to the small logging town of Pine Mills.
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