The Lost Bus
The Lost Bus is inspired by a real rescue drama that unfolded during the deadly Camp Fire that engulfed and destroyed the entire town of Paradise, California in November 2018.…
Review: The Gentlemen
The Gentlemen is a stylish crime caper with writer/director Guy Ritchie’s fingerprints all over it. It's very much a "Guy" movie - and a "guy movie", with a splash of…
Quickie Review: Serenity
Chances are you've already heard or read: This movie kinda sucks. So I won't delve too deep into the waters of this fish tale gone awry. Suffice it to say,…
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Quickie Reviews: The Dark Tower; Brigsby Bear; Detroit; Step; An Inconvenient Sequel; Escapes
The Dark Tower. I’m not a Stephen King purist so I didn’t go into this movie with the same high expectations as those who’ve read the series of books that…
Sing
I’m a big fan of The Voice. I watched American Idol. I love musicals. The trailer for Sing looked awesome. And then I saw the movie. And I was bummed.…
Interstellar
As an astute co-worker noted, ‘If Inception and Gravity had a baby, it would be Interstellar. It’s a mind-bender with an exceptional cast and a story that those of us…
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese's latest film The Wolf of Wall Street is basically three hours of sex and drugs and pure unadulterated greed. It is another "based on a true story" flick,…
Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club is another of the "based on a true story" flicks this season vying for some awards love. It's all about hard-partyin', rodeo ridin' Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof…
Mud
Mud is a fairly straightforward adventure/coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy's struggle to understand love and romance, while aiding and abetting a lovelorn criminal. Matthew McConaughey plays a fugitive named…
The Paperboy
My newspaper headline for The Paperboy would be: “Hot Mess” and not in a good, kinda campy way. It’s a creepy, sweaty melodrama set in the Florida Everglades circa 1969…
Magic Mike
Magic Mike is a movie with a split personality. It’s raucous fun that morphs into something surprisingly non-superficial (relatively speaking). Of course, if you’re in it strictly for the eye…
Bernie
Whenever I see that a movie is "based on a true story" I wonder how little of said story actually made it onto the screen. With Richard Linklater's Bernie, the…
The Lincoln Lawyer
The Lincoln Lawyer didn’t blow me away. But it did hold my interest for two hours and featured the best performance from Matthew McConaughey in a long, long while (and…