Category Archives: Movie Reviews

Canvas, the newest 3D film project from Chainwheel Productions, the team behind the Academy Award winning short Hair Love, is now playing on Netflix. With a credited run time of 9 minutes, though the actual story time is around 7 minutes 30 seconds, Canvas tells the tale of heartbreaking loss, grieving, and the struggle to…

Range Runners is a new film in the Action/Thriller genre, starring Celeste M. Cooper, written by Devon Colwell and directed by Philip S. Plowden. The story follows "Mel", a fiercely independent woman that we find is on a personal quest to complete a long distance thru-hike, for reasons unknown. On the second leg of her…

Netflix's heavily marketed and anticipated original series Luke Cage, based on the popular Marvel Comics character, debuted Friday September 30th, and assumed command of both Netflix viewership and social media. Almost two months ago, we posted a trailer for the series to the Imajen.com facebook page, in a good faith gesture in support of what we hoped would be…

The Magnificent Seven, a $108 Million dollar Western, by veteran action film director Antione Fuqua, is a 2016 reboot of the 1960 Western of the same name, directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brenner in the leading role. -That film was in fact, an American remake of the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film, Seven Samurai. In the 2016 version,…

Palmeras en La Nieve (Palm Trees In The Snow), is the 2015 melodramatic film, directed by Fernando Gonzalez Molina, based on the novel by Luz Gabas. It tells the story of two star crossed lovers; Kilian, a colonist and son of a cocoa plantation owner, and Bisila the daughter of a chief of an indigenous…