Reviews of big budget Hollywood films
APRIL 3, 2017 Do we really need another Disney production of “Beauty and the Beast”? That depends. As of today, the current live-action remake of the 1991 animated classic will…
MARCH 29, 2017 I can hear you now. “Why, for God’s sake, are you wasting time reviewing something like ‘CHIPS’? It’s supposed to be terrible.” Is it really that…
MARCH 20, 2017 It would be completely understandable if you thought that someone photoshopped an image of King Kong and plunked it into the poster for Francis Ford Coppola’s…
MARCH 15, 2017 Over the past few months, several of the most acclaimed films out there have centered on race and the African-American experience in the United States. In…
MARCH 13, 2017 The world of “Logan” is very dark, very bleak and not a whole lot of fun. It’s the year 2029, and the world of “X-Men” is…
MARCH 10, 2017 You may have noticed that I give a lot of films a grade of B-plus, and there’s a reason why that high mark comes up so…
FEBRUARY 21, 2017 It’s early in 2017, but we’ve already got a box-office story, and that story is “Split.’ January releases are usually dismissed to the trash heap as…
JANUARY 31, 2017 crowd-pleas·er noun noun: crowd-pleaser; plural noun: crowd-pleasers; noun: crowdpleaser; plural noun: crowdpleasers a person or thing with great popular appeal. Unless you’ve been living in an…
JANUARY 18, 2017 There are some movie gangsters who get into the underworld for revenge. Others do it so that they can make some quick easy money. Still others…
JANUARY 16, 2017 OK, I’ve put it off long enough. It’s finally time to review “La La Land.” I first saw the Oscar frontrunner several weeks ago, after hearing…
