Phaedra's Adventures

Yesterday I went to a matinee of H is for Hawk , an adaptation of the best-selling memoir of the same name by Helen Macdonald, and I found i...

If there is an action movie starring Jason Statham released in January I will be seated so my nephew and I went to see Shelter  last night. ...

I have been looking forward to The Testament of Ann Lee  ever since it premiered at the Venice Film Festival last fall so I was really excit...

Last night my nephew and I were able to see an early access screening of Send Help  and I thought it was a lot of fun.  After Bradley Presto...

Last night my nephew and I went to see Mercy  and, while it is not a great movie, it is definitely not as bad as I thought it would be based...

I thought the trailer for Dead Man's Wire , which is based on a true story, looked really intriguing so I went to see it last night and ...

Yesterday I spent the entire day at the Megaplex for another movie marathon.  This time it was for  The Hunger Games  and it was so much fun...

I was incredibly hyped to see 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple  with my nephew yesterday and, unbelievably, it lived up to my expectations!  ...

Last night my nephew and I went to see The Choral  and it should come as no surprise to anyone that I thoroughly enjoyed a British period dr...

Last night I went to the Broadway to see Is This Thing On?  and, even though it is very predictable, there was enough humor and pathos to ke...

I am a huge fan of Jim Jarmusch as a director and Adam Driver as an actor (their first collaboration,  Paterson , is one of my very favorite...

Last night my nephew and I saw No Other Choice  at the Broadway and we both loved this hilarious dark comedy!  Yoo Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) is...

I am a big fan of Daisy Ridley so I was excited to see her new movie We Bury the Dead  last night.  While it does have some unsettling seque...

There has been so much hype  for Marty Supreme  but I did not share everyone's enthusiasm for it.  I reluctantly agreed to see it last n...

I was able to see 160 new releases in the theater in 2025 (which is definitely a record for me) and a lot of them were with my nephew who ha...

Yesterday my whole family went to see Avatar: Fire and Ash  together and it was a lot of fun (we almost filled an entire row).  The movie is...

Yesterday my nephew and I went to a matinee of The Housemaid  and I thought it was really fun and entertaining.  Millie Calloway (Sydney Swe...

I was intrigued by the trailer and impressed by the cast for Ella McCay  so my nephew and I went to see it at a matinee yesterday.  I didn...

I love Ang Lee's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility  by Jane Austen so I was really happy to see it last night during its limited run i...

Stephen King famously dislikes Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of his 1977 novel The Shining  but I think it is a cinematic masterpiece and...