Reviews of big budget Hollywood films
NOVEMBER 16, 2016 Taipei. Shanghai. Beijing. New York. Los Angeles. If you live in one of these five cities, you have had the chance this week to see two-time…
NOVEMBER 14, 2016 Say the phrase “alien invasion” to a movie buff, and images of exploding government buildings and hordes of screaming extras will undoubtedly come to mind, and…
NOVEMBER 7, 2016 It’s a Marvel movie. That’s really all you need to know about “Doctor Strange.” If you’re judging the quality of a Marvel movie, you have to…
NOVEMBER 2, 2016 Here’s a sentence I haven’t written in the last 10 years — let’s talk about Mel Gibson. The Academy Award-winning actor/director has been essentially an international…
OCTOBER 17, 2016 Well, this was a nice surprise. Let’s just say that Peter Berg’s recreation of the disastrous 2010 explosion on the oil rig “Deepwater Horizon” was not…
OCTOBER 12, 2016 I have been known to patronize a Starbucks or two now and then, and last year, whenever I would bring my coffee out to the patio,…
OCTOBER 9, 2016 This is a really tough film to review, as it comes with an uncommon amount of baggage. Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation,” which opened…
OCTOBER 3, 2016 “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” marks yet another slide in the steadily declining career of Tim Burton. For God’s sake, this is the man who…
SEPTEMBER 24, 2016 Out of all of the films that are coming out this fall (even the Oscar bait), the one movie to which I was most looking forward…
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 If you have been fortunate enough to see Laura Poitras’ Academy-Award winning documentary “Citizenfour” about the days just before and after Edward Snowden revealed the illegal…
