Eleanor Reviews

Director:  Joe Penna Cast:  Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson, Toni Collette  Where can I watch?:   Stowaway  is streaming on  Netflix Rating:  3/5 Review: Your Philosophy and Ethics classes get a spacey update in Joe Penna's tale of three Mars-bound astronauts who discover a fourth person concealed on their vessel, sapping their precious oxygen supply. It's hardly an original premise, but Stowaway offers plenty of initial promise, something of a searching character study into three individuals who felt compelled to leave their families behind and spend two years on a mission through the stars. Unfortunately, few of these expectations are ever realised, and Penna's film begins to struggle under its lack of conviction very quickly. There are plenty of themes that are touched on briefly and then dismissed; the faint crackle of remote voices from Earth appears to symbolise both the astronauts' isolation and their disconnect from society, and yet little comes

Director:  Lee Isaac Chung Cast:  Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan S. Kim, Noel Cho, Yuh-Jung Youn Where can I watch?:   Minari  is streaming on  Prime Video   Rating:  4/5 Review: If 2020 taught us anything, it's that life is far from predictable: best-laid plans come to nothing; hopes and dreams can seem unattainable; and decisions that once seem certain are thrown into question. Luckily, even in the toughest of times, there is still joy to be had. A film that very much encapsulates the 'every day' feeling of life, Lee Isaac Chung's beautifully understated  Minari follows a South Korean family as they settle into their new home in Arkansas; Jacob (Steven Yeun) has a dream of starting his own farm and immediately sets out cultivating the land, while his wife (Yeri Han) and two young children navigate their new surroundings. Into this uneasy mix lands Grandma Soonja (Oscar winner Yuh-Jung Youn) and her quirky home medicines. It's hard to pinpoint exactly why Minari engag

Director:  Adam Wingard Cast:  Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry Where can I watch?:   Godzilla vs. Kong is streaming on Apple TV .  Rating:  2/5 Review:  Do you like your apes oversized and your lizards fire-breathing (I know it's not fire, die hard fans!)? Have you always wanted to see big things punch each other repeatedly thanks to the latest in CGI technology? Are you looking for a film that will make you think, 'this is dross' but renders you unable to look away? My friend, Godzilla vs. Kong is the movie for you. There's no point in trying to explain the plot, because there isn't one to describe beyond ape hits lizard, lizard hits ape, people scream and run. However, for all the repetitiveness of these giant creatures hitting each other and roaring, it's far better than enduring the shocking dialogue between the wholly one-dimensional human characters who appear to be there for no reason other than to stand around wit