MoVTie Critic

Hello all you movie lovers out there. I'm sure many of you are bummed and a little worried with the Corona virus going around and postponing movie premieres and avoiding the movie theaters a little frustrating with all the great films that are supposed to be coming out. Still we can enjoy a film at home and reflect how art can imitate life and vise versa. "Contagion" and "Outbreak" are prime examples to relate how things seem right now as well as this film I recently viewed that while it might stir up some fears will also remind you that we're lucky this virus has a high survival rate compared to what occurs in this film. Rose (Laura Vandervoort) is a timid woman with aspirations of being a fashion designer and having her work be the next thing on the runway, but she's treated by many as a joke including her boss Gunter (Mackenzie Gray). One evening, one of her biggest hopes finally happens when her office crush Brad (Benjamin Hollingsworth) the ph...

Navigating your teen years can feel like a battle in itself with the struggles of school, popularity and the social acceptance and expectations of those around you. Most of us make a few mistakes but manage to get out of it without a scrape, others seem to manage to bring about the end of the world in their mind, yet in this case it just might happen. Sara Steinburg (Mary Nepi) is a social seeking girl who wants nothing more to start the new school year off with a bang which includes finally losing her v-card to popular jock Skyler Cole (Austin Fryberger). It seems like Sara finally has her social standing until the next morning she wakes up to find herself nine months pregnant. Unable to tell her new friends like mean-spirited Kiana (Ashley Argota), Skyler or even her mom Kate (J.J. Nolan), she seeks help from her former friend Hayley Chamberlain (Gabrielle Elyse) who agrees to take her to a clinic. In the midst of seeking answers, Sara delivers an alien creature with the powe...

We hear so much going on with the ocean between the amount of plastic building up to the animals that are affected from mistakenly consuming our garbage believing it to be edible that we don't always get to see these animals at their best and what they're capable of. Yet thanks to those who are dedicated to changing that and films that remind us how important they are, we are educated along with being entertained. Bernie is back in a new full-length feature film and so are his human friends Kevin and Holly Ryan (Logan Allen and Lola Sultan) who are now junior volunteers of the marine wildlife rescue that helped Bernie in the last film and are still featuring him and his pod on their webpage. Yet just as Bernie's pod is coming back to the area, another familiar face has returned, Winston Mills (Kevin Sorbo). Out on parole, Winston and the kids along with their father Bob Ryan (Patrick Muldoon) find themselves being forced to work together when Winston is assigned to ...

Welcome again movie lovers and welcome to anyone who's reading the blog for the first time. For those who do peak at my page from time to time, I apologize for the gaps in post. We lost my Nain (Welsh for Grandmother) very recently and it has taken some time to work out time to sit down and do any writing of any kind for me. She always looked forward to reading my articles that I did for the magazine "Our State Vermont" and let me know she was proud of my writing and I will miss being able to share my newest pieces with her. Yet one thing I've taken away from this is that I carry her trait of staying strong for family and carrying on, so without further to do here we go. In the days of the 19th-century New England when the lighthouse keeper was responsible for the lives of sailors out at sea to avoid hitting rocks and expected to serve their tour for weeks in isolation, two men Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and the newest recruit Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) ...

Such a thing as taking a picture seems like a harmless thing, yet not everyone feels that way. Some cultures believe taking a photo of someone can steal a piece of their soul while others think it preserves a moment in time to be looked back on and remembered. Yet when it becomes the object of supernatural forces to lash out on the living, a picture can be worth more than a thousand words, it can be worth your life. Bird Fitcher (Kathryn Prescott) is a quiet high schooler with a passion for photography and when she is fortunate to be given an old rare polaroid camera from the '70's by Tyler (Davi Santos), her friend and co-worker at the antique shop she works at she is more than eager to try it out on people like Tyler and at a costume party hosted by her friend Avery (Katie Stevens) and her friends Kasey (Samantha Logan) Devin (Keenan Tracey) Mina (Priscilla Quintana) and her crush Connor (Tyler Young). Yet when she learns Tyler and Avery died in what looked like tragi...

Welcome and a Happy New Year to all of you. I realized its been an eternity since my last post. Holiday work and celebrations will do that, but I am back and hoping to kickstart this new year with new post and for those on my Facebook page new shares of fun film facts, trailers and anything film related. In the meantime, let's start off with one of the films I've had the chance to view that will get Wonder Woman fans excited about the upcoming live action film due to come out later this year with the latest chapter to the DC Universe, "Wonder Woman: Bloodlines" In this edition, we're taken back to Wonder Woman's aka Diana (Rosario Dawson) early days and how she lived on a hidden island of Amazon warriors called Themyscira where American piolet Steve Trevor (Jeffery Donovan) crash lands there leading Diana to leave her home and venture to the outside world to be its warrior for justice. Flashing forward to years later, Diana has made friends in that of...

Well things are getting pretty cold outside, so how about getting warm and cozy with a bag of popcorn with a bubbly beverage and take in one of the most anticipated titles of the year on the big screen, the much awaited Disney sequel "Frozen 2". Picking up a few years after the events of the first movie, Elsa (Idina Menzel) has come into her own as Queen of Arendelle and controlling her magical ice powers along with rebuilding the loving relationship with her little sister Anna (Kristen Bell) and enjoying the family they created with Kristoff (Johnathan Groff), Sven the reindeer and the lovable living snowman Olaf (Josh Gad). Yet when a strange siren-like voice that only Elsa can hear calls to her beckoning her to come which causes her to unwittingly awaken the magical spirits of the forest. Spirits that were thought to be nothing more than from a story that their parents use to tell them as children in a forest that is cut off from Arendelle by a magical mist. Finding...