‘Movie Corner’ Archives
Backrooms
from the series Movie Corner... 5/5 Stars 2026Horror/Psychological Thriller/Supernatural HorrorA24 By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter II One says there is no shortage of horror or psychological thriller films in recent years. Just in the last four or five weeks two very good to excellent horror films have come to theaters: Obsession and Backrooms. This review will be on the latter. Backrooms is receiving tremendous buzz and deservedly so, with its ability to put the unknown, the unfamiliar, and the uncanny into the heads of the viewers. Behind this project is 20-year-old director Kane Parsons who provides his audiences with anxiety and mystery. Backrooms is a stupendous A24 studios project. The setting is the 1990s and focuses on Clark, the owner of a furniture store who is an alcoholic going through a recent separation from his wife. To his surprise (and ours too) he enters into a strange realm of seemingly never-ending office rooms which are often empty [...]
Michael
from the series Movie Corner... By HOWARD MCQUITTER II 2/5 Stars2026BiopicLionsgate Howard McQuitter II When I first saw the trailers for Michael in January and February I was elated to say the least to see director Antoine Fugal’s Michael. Every day on YouTube, television, and elsewhere, the public was inundated with the trailers on Michael Jackson. And why not? The late Michael Jackson, the top entertainer- dancer- singer on Earth, dazzled millions of fans across the globe. After all, wouldn’t this be the “perfect” biopic? The film opens up in 1966 with the Jackson 5 and concludes with a big-time performance at Wembley Stadium in1988. Michael’s nephew Jafaar Jackson plays him. Michael and his siblings are growing up in Gary, Indiana, in a Black working class neighborhood under an authoritarian father. Joe Jackson is aptly performed by Colman Domingo and he drills his sons to be the best musicians in the music business, both R&B and Pop, with the help of [...]
Project Hail Mary
from the series Movie Corner... By HOWARD MCQUITTER II 4.5 Stars2026Science Fiction/Adventure/MysteryMGM Howard McQuitter II Phil Lord and Christopher Miller co-directed Project Hail Mary, a fabulous science fiction film starring Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace, a middle school teacher who reluctantly takes on a life-giving mission for the Earth and beyond. The film convincingly creates a real sense of urgency for Earth when microorganisms known as astrophage are capable of consuming the energy not only of our sun, but stars throughout the universe. Ryland Grace woke up on the spaceship Project Hail Mary in space only to find his two comrades dead. When he releases his two comrades into space it also releases one of the most notable emotions in the film. However, the backstory shows Grace perfectly happy being a middle school science teacher in spite of encouragement by Eva Stratt to have him take on the mission. Stratt is played by Sandra Huller from Anatomy of a Fall [...]
