It's Just Movies

1 week ago | itsjustmovies.com | William Sterr

— by WILLIAM STERR —It’s Spring! The shoots are coming up through the warming earth, the buds are forming on the branches, and the sap is flowing. Especially in the sappy “Chosen Family.”This grotesque “feel good” movie, written, directed and starring Heather Graham (“Suitable Flesh”) is so sweet that it should come with a warning: audience members may suffer from a dangerous level of hyperglycemia. Ann (Heather Graham) comes from a highly dysfunctional family.

1 week ago | itsjustmovies.com | William Sterr |Elijah Wood |Osgood Perkins |Stephen King

— by WILLIAM STERR —Osgood Perkins strikes horror gold again with this horror/comedic take on Stephen King’s short story “The Monkey.”King’s story follows Hal Shelburn. Hal’s son, Petey, discovers a windup monkey in a box while exploring the attic of his father’s childhood home. It turns out Hal had in turn found the monkey among his own father’s things in a closet. As a child, Hal soon realized that whenever the monkey clapped its cymbals, a death or calamity followed.

1 month ago | itsjustmovies.com | William Sterr

— by WILLIAM STERR —When do miracles cross the line into mad science? As a young girl, Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney – “Madame Web”) suffered a near death experience. It changed her life, and she decided to devote that life to God. When still a novitiate, her local US convent closed. But then she was delighted to get an invitation from Father Tedeschi (Alvaro Morte) to travel to Italy and take her final vows as a nun at a beautiful convent that served dying nuns.

1 month ago | itsjustmovies.com | Bev Questad |Walter Salles

— by BEV QUESTAD —Jolting. I thought I would just watch the first five or 10 minutes and finish the rest the next day. I quickly forgot about that as I was gripped by the series of true events that could so possibly happen in America. But jolting was also the decision on March 2, 2025, at the 97th annual Academy Awards. Deservedly, “I’m Still Here” won for Best International Film.

1 month ago | itsjustmovies.com | William Sterr |Atom Egoyan

— by WILLIAM STERR —When art copies life copies art. Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried – “I Don’t Understand You”) has an opportunity to re-mount the opera “Salome,” a piece that she worked on with her deceased mentor, Charles, years before. She leaps at the chance. However, she faces several obstacles. Charles’ estate, represented by his wife (Lanette Ware – “The Fire Inside”), insists the remount be the same as the successful production of years past, while Jeanine yearns to put her own stamp on it.