Review: John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum is insanely violent yet wildly entertaining - if you can withstand a barrage of fight scenes rife with bullets, swords, fists, head-butts, horses, motorcycles,…
Quickie Review: Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Who am I kidding? I don’t know a Pikachu from a Wigglytuff from a Psyduck. If you do, then Pokémon Detective Pikachu is probably a safe bet for 100 minutes…
Spoiler-Free Review: Avengers: Endgame
And so it ends... in a suitably epic and satisfying way. Avengers: Endgame is a superhero chick flick – part drama, part action, part tearjerker. It’s also part comedy, in…
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Review: Shazam!
With Marvel’s highly-anticipated Avengers: Endgame still a few weeks out, DC Comics’ Shazam! swoops in like a tasty appetizer - just enough to satisfy, without spoiling your appetite for the…
Quickie Review: Dumbo
There’s a reason we don’t review too many kids’ movies, even if we happen to see them: they aren’t really for us. A few weeks ago, I saw the animated…
Review: The Wedding Guest
You might expect from the title that this is another of director Michael Winterbottom's light comedies as in The Trip series, and that it has something to do with nuptials,…
Review: Captain Marvel
I'll tread carefully here, though I don't think there are many actual spoilers to worry about. That’s because Captain Marvel is an origin story meant to set the stage for…
Review: Styx
Styx is the story of intrepid German ER doctor Rike who's on a solo sea voyage when she's suddenly sucked into a life or death situation. What begins as a…
Quickie Review: How to Train Your Dragon – The Hidden World
I must confess: I did not see the first How to Train Your Dragon movie in 2010. And I found the 2014 sequel to be rather dark. Regardless, both films…
Review: Oscar Nominated Short Films 2019
I always look forward to watching the shorts. (Short being 40 minutes or less, so some of them aren't all that short.) This year's crop had clear winners and losers…
Review: Cold Pursuit
Cold Pursuit triggered a chilling case of deja vu. Not just because it’s another Liam Neeson revenge thriller. But because I’d seen the exact same movie before, in 2014 –…
Quickie Review: In Like Flynn
In Like Flynn is all about swashbuckling Errol Flynn in the days before he became a star, when he was traveling around the South Seas looking for adventure and getting…
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Mainstream Chick’s Top Picks of 2018
It’s insanely difficult to do a “Top 10 Movies of 2018” list when you’ve seen about 200 movies in 365 days – everything from blockbusters, to arthouse films, to documentaries,…
Quickie Reviews: Ben Is Back; Bumblebee; Vice
I know - these are three very different films. But I'm playing catch-up with my reviews! So I'll start with my favorite of the three (though Bumblebee comes in a…
Review: Destroyer
When beautiful actresses make themselves ugly for a role, it's always hard to see them that way. In Destroyer, Nicole Kidman plays an LA detective whose life took a dark…