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Letterboxd Reviews

January 31, 2025

Editorial Opinion·Feature·Movie Reviews·Movies·On Screen

Words by Waverly Loyd Some things just write themselves. But this got me thinking… everyone has their guilty pleasure movies. Their “hear me out” movies. These are movies that in the cinephile world, you know you would get a 60-second head start after confessing your love for them. Seriously though, why are most movie reviewers pretentious a*sholes? Y’all remind

Feature·Movies·On Screen

The New Norm for Valentine’s Date Nights

Words by Kaili Cochran As Valentine’s Day approaches, let’s talk about how the definition of date night has been redefined by the popularity and convenience of streaming services and social media. What once was dinner and a movie is now at-home-cooking and streaming. In 2020, when COVID-19 had

Ring Leader: Wrestling legend gets the big-screen treatment

Words by Shelton Hull Queen of the Ring is a new

A COLLECTION OF MY BRILLIANTLY WITTY, SUPREMELY CREATIVE, DELIGHTFULLY AMUSING MOVIE REVIEWS AS SOMEONE WHO IS EXTREMELY HUMBLE AND MODEST AND IS BUT A LOWLY VIEWER WHO’S FAVORITE MOVIE HAS TWO STARS ON LETTERBOXD. ENJOY.

Words by Waverly Loyd REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000) -This almost

May Movies

May 12, 2009

Movies

EARTH The first film in the Disneynature series tells the remarkable story of three animal families and their amazing journeys across the planet we all call home. On the screen amazing photography combines rarely captured action, unimaginable scale and impossible locations by capturing the most intimate moments of our planet’s

Special Movie Showings

May 12, 2009

Movies

May 1: 7th Annual Jacksonville Film Festival Launch Party Celebrate the official kick off event for the 2009 Jacksonville Film Festival where announcements will be made regarding this year’s film line up and see the 2008 Jacksonville Film Festival’s Best Feature, Skills Like This with director Monty Miranda in attendance.

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

May 1, 2009

Movies

(l-r) Sandra Spurney (Miss Prism), Geoffrey King (Rev. Canon Chasuble), Harolyn Sharpe (Lady Bracknell), Michael Lipp (John "Jack" Worthing), Amy Noel Canning (Gwendolen Fairfax), David Patton (Algernon Moncrieff), and Stacy Williams (Cecily Cardew) by Rick Grant Grade: C / Rated PG-13 / 100 min “Doesn’t anyone believe in casual sex

State of Play

May 1, 2009

Movies

by Rick Grant Grade: A- / Rated PG-13 / 137 min In this gripping thriller, Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe) is a ruffled old-school investigative journalist sporting out-of-date long hair. He works for a typically financially floundering newspaper The Washington Globe. He drives an old Saab and even his cluttered office

Earth

April 23, 2009

Movies

by Rick Grant Grade: A / Rated G / 96 min For many viewers this feature length adaptation of the television series Planet Earth will seem like deja vu. Aired in 2007, filmmakers Alastair Fothergbill and Mark Linfield took unseen footage as well as previously viewed scenes and edited this

The Hannah Montana Movie

April 17, 2009

Movies

by Rick Grant Grade: B / Rated G / 102 min Amongst all the hoopla about tween sensation Miley Cyrus, this semi-biographical movie is a cautionary tale of a young girl bedazzled by fame returning to her roots. Parents of little girls will be relieved that Disney took the high

April Movies

April 16, 2009

Movies

NOW SHOWING 12 ROUNDS Can you say wupp-ass? WWE champion John Cena is New Orleans Police Detective Danny Baxter. When Baxter stops a brilliant thief from getting away with a multi-million-dollar heist, the thief’s girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting the

Observe and Report

April 15, 2009

Movies

by Rick Grant Grade: B / Rated R / 86 min From the twisted cinematic mind of Jody Hill this black comedy was born to be shocking and darkly funny. Hill’s script was a great vehicle for rising star Seth Rogen, who has lost even more weight than he appears

carmike's fleming island 12

April 15, 2009

Movies

by kellie abrahamson When Carmike’s Fleming Island 12 movie theater opened on March 20th you could almost hear Clay County residents breathe a collective sigh of relief. Not having to battle Blanding Boulevard traffic to get to a movie theater is enough to make any person want to do a

movies in the park 2009

April 11, 2009

Movies

by kellie abrahamson The economy has everyone looking for ways to save some cash and entertainment is one thing most families are simply living without. Thankfully as the weather gets warmer, cheap and even free things to do will begin to pop up all over our fair city. Enter Movies