by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Mar 5, 2024 | Movie Reviews
My Early Soundtrack What music shaped your early life? For most of us, our parents’ musical tastes probably were our starting place. That music made a deep impression on what we like — and don’t like (ahem, Steely Dan for me). Most of the music I grew up...
by Colleen Strachan | Aug 15, 2023 | Movie Reviews
Spoiler Alert:This review contains some minor spoilers about the plot of Barbie. When I was a girl, at a certain age I had only one wish each time I opened a gift, and that wish was, “Please be a Barbie doll.” I was obsessed then, and although I never collected as...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Aug 15, 2023 | Movie Reviews
Spoiler Alert: This review contains some minor spoilers about the plot of Oppenheimer. Content Alert: Oppenheimer contains adult themes, nudity, and graphic language. If I were to tell you that Hollywood would be releasing a 3-hour film during the summer blockbuster...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | May 16, 2023 | Movie Reviews
Spoiler Alert: This review contains some minor spoilers about the plot of The Last of Us. Content Alert: The Last of Us contains adult themes, graphic violence, nudity, and strong language. The Last of Us begins, not where we might expect, but in a restaurant in...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Apr 11, 2023 | Movie Reviews
(Spoiler Alert: This review contains some minor spoilers about the plot of The Fabelmans.) Storytelling is a bit like fire…powerful, captivating even, but also, extremely dangerous. Telling a personal story, one that involves your own family, well, the stakes are even...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Nov 22, 2022 | Movie Reviews
Love, Loss & Top Gun (Ground Level One) By Stuart Strachan Jr. One of the realities of getting older (at least for me), has been a diminishing enjoyment of movies, or at least, the action genre. It’s the formulaic, always-the-same story-arc that makes it hard for...
