Mike Tyrkus

The latest adaptation of a work by Enid Blyton, the new film The Magic Faraway Tree somehow manages to be both enchanting and entertaining while delivering a heart-warming message of family unity and love in the face of adversity. Adapted from Blyton’s beloved novel, the film tells the story of Tim (Andrew Garfield), Polly (Claire Foy), and their three children as the move into a farm in the...[Read More]

The new science-fiction thriller from writer/director David Robert Mitchell, The End of Oak Street, may not be everyone’s idea of a fun time at the movies, but for those interested in a survival thriller based on the tenants of science fiction established by serial dramas like The Outer Limits (1963-65) or The Twilight Zone (1959-64), the film will prove to be a rousing success. As the film begins...[Read More]

The fourth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) “Spider-Man” series, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, continues the storyline from 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home wherein Doctor Strange cast a spell to save several fractured universes that inadvertently brought characters from all three Spider-Man film series together to fight alongside Tom Holland’s Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the MCU. As the film...[Read More]

Since he assaulted the zeitgeist of the cinema with his directorial debut Memento (2000), Christopher Nolan has been creating films with more poignancy and heft than most of his contemporaries have produced collectively. From the early days of his reinvention of the super hero film with Batman Begins in 2005, through the exploration of topics with historical and emotional importance, such as Dunki...[Read More]