“Hell or High Water” — An Out-of-Left-Field Triumph
AUGUST 31, 2016 Last week I proclaimed Disney’s remake of “Pete’s Dragon” to be the best movie of the summer. Maybe I spoke too soon. “Hell or High Water”…
Reviews of big budget Hollywood films
AUGUST 31, 2016 Last week I proclaimed Disney’s remake of “Pete’s Dragon” to be the best movie of the summer. Maybe I spoke too soon. “Hell or High Water”…
AUGUST 29, 2016 If you had never heard of the remarkable true story of Florence Foster Jenkins, you have no excuse now. Already the subject of a Broadway drama…
AUGUST 27, 2016 Who’da thunk it? This is how you do a remake. Why, for example, would anyone bother to remake “Ben-Hur”? Not that the 1925 Ramon Novarro silent…
AUGUST 26, 2016 You may have noticed that you haven’t seen very many movies rated C or D on this website. It’s not that I’m lenient (nothing could be…
AUGUST 15, 2016 In the past several years, there has been a rising genre of faith-based films that have become extremely profitable. I’m not talking on-the-nose religious films such…
AUGUST 10, 2016 “Things are beginning to feel a little episodic,” observes Capt. James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) in an early scene in “Star Trek Beyond,” the latest adventure…
AUGUST 8, 2016 It’s hard to believe that it’s been nine years since Matt Damon last played former CIA assassin Jason Bourne. Damon first played the operative in 2002’s…
JULY 18, 2016 “Ain’t no bitches gonna hunt no ghosts.” That is one of Melissa McCarthy’s most memorable lines in the new all-female remake of “Ghostbusters,” but it could…
JULY 13, 2016 After the upsetting events of the past week on the national scene, there is some comfort in finding an outlet to lose yourself for a few…
JULY 6, 2016 Sidekicks can be a troublesome thing. In TV, there is a long tradition of series producers, who, after seeing one of their supporting characters suddenly becoming…