Grow Omaha Flicks

★ ★ ½ ‘The Damned’ is a slow-paced film full of breathtaking cinematography that captures the scenery surrounding a remote Icelandic fishing post. The acting and performances are solid, and through most of its 90-minute runtime, the script builds excellent tension until we arrive at a somewhat empty conclusion.

★ ★ ★ ★ “The Fire Inside” is a film about the first female American to win an Olympic gold medal for boxing. She was born and raised in Flint, Mich.and knew she wanted to box at an early age. We first meet Claressa “T-Rex” Shields as a pre-teen girl (Jazmin Headley) at a boxing gym where gym owner and trainer…

It wouldn’t be a stretch to call 2024 the year of sequels. We got a lot of them. From a new Bad Boys adventure, to Inside Out 2, all the way to a sequel of Gladiator. It would be easy to say Hollywood didn’t put much originality into the year’s releases, but there were some great adaptations, hidden gems and and wonderful surprises – even in the sequels. 2024 won’t go down…

★ ★ ★ The cinematography in ‘Nosferatu’ is quite fantastic. It’s one of the best films of recent memory when it comes to capturing darkness. The camera mostly lives in the shadows, putting us right in its subjects’ despair. The color grading removes any vibrancy, which works brilliantly…

★ ★ ★ The title of this film is taken from a line in the Bob Dylan song, “Like a Rolling Stone.” It makes sense since this cinematic biopic is about Bob Dylan, portrayed by Timothée Chalamet. Director James Mangold does a good job of putting us in Dylan’s world as he’s discovered by Pete Seeger…

★ ★ There’s a moment midway through ‘Babygirl’ that I asked myself, “Is this a good movie?” I find myself asking this of a film occasionally, especially in slower paced dramas like this. My answer at the moment was, “It depends on how they end it.” Romy (Nicole Kidman) is a powerful corporate executive…

★ ★ A nuclear bomb has detonated on the coast of California, an event for which Ian Ross (Neal McDonough) has prepared a compound. This living complex, in the Colorado Rockies, is called the Homestead. Ian lives there with his wife, Jenna (Dawn Olivieri), and daughter Claire (Olivia Sanabia)…

★ ★ ★ ½ This is the third film based on the smash hit video game series released on the Sega Genesis game console in 1991. In the game, Sonic, a blue hedgehog, runs really fast across the screen, jumping over obstacles and avoiding danger while collecting gold rings. Sonic (Ben Schwartz) comes from the planet Mobius…

★ ★ ★ ½ ‘Nightbitch’ stars Amy Adams, her character credited only as Mother, in one the most raw, emotionally poignant performances of her career. When the film occasionally loses its sense of story, her stellar performance fills the gap while the script finds its scent again and gets back on track…

★ ★ ★ ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ is the origin story to both the 1994 animated film, The Lion King, and its 2019 “live action” CGI remake. This is a decent film, if you’re willing to overlook some annoyances, which I’m mostly willing to do – perhaps because…