jww's Reviews

Grade: A+ In the Jim Crrow-era south, twins Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) start up a juke house. During the house's...

Grade: A Well, it only took 7 years, but this movie has finally been commercially released in the US. (If you have any interest in seeing th...

Grade: B+ The members of a small 19th century coastal outpost decide not to rescue the crew of a nearby crashed ship due to the risk. Howeve...

Grade: B In this remake of the 1920’s silent film which was based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, real estate agent Thomas Hutter (played by Nicho...

Grade: B- In this sequel to the 2000 hit, Lucius (played by Paul Mescal), now grown up, is captured and sold into slavery as a gladiator aft...

Grade: A Here based on the magazine strip turned graphic novel by Richard McGuire is shot from the exact same angle and follows a spot of la...

7/10 Jerry Seinfeld is an interesting guy, after having one of the most popular sitcoms of all time, he's been limited in his output. Th...

8.5/10 In Late Night with the Devil, Jack Delroy (played by David Dastmalchian), the host of the late night show Night Owls, tries to restor...

7.5/10 The Netflix movie Rustin retells how black and gay civil rights leader Rustin Bayard (played by Colman Domingo) helped organize the M...

7.5/10 In this Amazon Prime film inspired by real events (I admire how the film is straight up honest in its embellishment) that takes place...

8.5/10 In three movie-length episodes, this Peacock television spin-off/prequel of the John Wick movies (couldn't tell if it is supposed...

7.5/10 In this second and final season of the Max show about how Dr. Jerry Buss (played by John C. Reilly) and the Los Angeles Lakers change...

7/10 In this film based on a section from Bram Stoker's Dracula, the audience follows the crew of the Demeter, the ship that brought Dra...

  9/10 This new Christopher Nolan film looks at how physicist J. Robert Oppnheimer (played by Cillian Murphy) led the team that created the ...

7/10 Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (original French title: Asterix & Obelix: L'Empire du Milieu), now on Netflix, is the ...

10/10 Sisu, a new Finnish movie mostly in English (I'm not sure if it was recorded in both English and Finnish or just English, research...

8/10 In this Netflix film and adaptation of the book by Louis Bayard, retired detective Augustus Landor (played by Christian Bale) is called...

  8/10 In Death on the Nile, based on Agatha Christie's book of the same name, Hercule Poirot (played by director Kenneth Branagh) solve...

9/10 This second season of The Alienist, which feels more like a sequel and is based on the book sequel Angel of Darkness. Psychiatrist Lasz...

10/10 This is a filmed recording of the hit musical Hamilton, a musical about first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton featuri...