Category: Reviews

‘The Fall Guy’ floats. It’s an easy, breezy ride.

Jeff Mitchell

“The Fall Guy” (2024) – “I might fall from a tall building.  I might roll a brand-new car.  ‘Cause I’m the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star.” – “Unknown Stuntman” performed by Lee Majors in “The Fall Guy” (1981 – 1986) “The Fall Guy”, a popular action-adventure ABC television show, fell into the laps of families across the U.S. from 1981 through 1986 as Majors – from “The Six Million Dollar Man” (1974 – 1978) fame – starred as Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who doubles as a…

‘We Grown Now’ is a poetic story about childhood friendship

Jeff Mitchell

“We Grown Now” (2024) – As director/writer Minhal Baig’s film opens, two elementary-age schoolboys, Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez), drag a twin-size mattress through the hallway of an apartment building.  With a broken elevator temporally halting the dynamic duo’s expedition, they shuffle to the stairs and, eventually, outside as they lug the 8-foot sleeping apparatus down various streets for an unknown goal.  Well, Malik and Eric attain their ultimate purpose – which will not be revealed in this review – but to give a hint, their…

‘Hard Miles’: This inspirational cycling story is worth an easy trip to the movie theatre

Jeff Mitchell

“Hard Miles” (2024) – Rice, Atencio, Smink, and Woolbright. These four teens have walked hard miles.  Their long journeys of bad decisions and misfortune led them to reside at Colorado’s Ridge View Academy, a school for troubled teenagers.  It’s where arguments and fist fights break out more frequently than acne, as the young men posture for position to get through their days.  Still, Ridge View isn’t heartless.  Counselors like Greg (Matthew Modine) and Haddie (Cynthia Kaye McWilliams) march to the beat of a well-intentioned drum, but verbal altercations with the…