Spoiler-free Review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Chances are, if you’re reading this review (and I use the term loosely), you’ve already seen The Rise of Skywalker (so now it’s okay to look), you couldn’t care less…
Review: Jumanji: The Next Level
This one’s easy. If you saw and liked the 2017 film, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (which I rented this week as a primer), then it’s totally worth taking a…
Quickie Review: The Aeronauts
The Aeronauts is one of those movies that plenty of folks will like, but a lot of critics will wrestle with. It’s good, but it’s also disappointing. I saw The…
Review: Frozen II (aka Frozen 2)
Oh c'mon, did you really expect Frozen 2 to be as good - or even better - than its predecessor, the highest-grossing animated film of all time in worldwide box…
Review: Charlie’s Angels
The new Charlie’s Angels movie is not quite a reboot. Or a sequel. Or even a reimagining of the classic franchise. It’s more of a continuation, expansion and rebranding of…
Review: Ford v Ferrari
Ford v Ferrari has all the key ingredients for an awards-season crowd-pleaser: two great actors (Matt Damon and Christian Bale) sharing top billing, a true story that many folks are…
Review: Terminator: Dark Fate
True confessions time. I’m more than a little late to the Terminator game. Until last week, my only exposure to the decades-old franchise revolved around random clips featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger…
Quickie Review: Angel Has Fallen
This one's easy: If you saw and liked Olympus Has Fallen and/or London Has Fallen, then there’s absolutely no harm in catching Angel Has Fallen. For the trifecta! The characters,…
Review: The Peanut Butter Falcon
Most movies with Down syndrome characters treat them with kid gloves, painting them as lovable but limited people. But in The Peanut Butter Falcon Zak (Zack Gottsagen) is anything but…
Quickie Review: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Some films – like Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood - require a great deal of thought and dissection and debate. They are the full-course meal that swirls around the…
Quickie Review: Stuber
Stuber’s problems start at the beginning - with its title. You ‘get’ the reference easy enough and early enough once the story begins to unfold (Stu + Uber = Stuber).…
Review: Spider-Man: Far From Home
I’m suffering a bit from early-summer superhero fatigue, so I fully acknowledge that my ailment could account for my less than enthusiastic endorsement of Spider-Man: Far From Home. It’s still…
Review: Men In Black: International
Does Men In Black: International break new ground? No, not really. Does it need to? Would have been nice; but no, not really. It’s good enough to serve as an…
Quickie Review: Dark Phoenix
Dark Phoenix is like a low-calorie, less-filling Endgame. It’s designed to bring closure to the X-Men franchise as we’ve come to know it, before a possible reboot under new (Disney)…
Review: Aladdin (2019)
I must confess I went into Disney’s live-action Aladdin with the lowest of expectations and a great deal of skepticism. I’m an ardent fan of the 1992 animated classic and…