Were someone to ask for a two-word review of “Justice League,” I would sum up the DCEU film as “entirely underwhelming.” The film series may have partially righted the ship with this year’s incredibly impressive “Wonder Woman,” but this Zack… Read More ›
I referred to the 2015 Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg comedy, “Daddy’s Home,” as, “an easy-going comedy with two very funny men at its center.” I went on to write that, “even if the movie doesn’t break new ground or explore new… Read More ›
At the end of Neil Simon’s comedic spin on the detective genre, “Murder by Death,” the classic detectives are given a comeuppance. The frustrations of the average reader/viewer are taken out as it is explained to the detectives that they’ve… Read More ›
This past summer, UFC fighter Conor McGregor lost to Floyd Mayweather in a highly publicized boxing match. The fight was McGregor’s first time in the ring as a professional boxer, however, he does currently hold a UFC belt (and has… Read More ›
There is something truly smart in the opening of “A Bad Moms Christmas,” the sequel to 2016’s “Bad Moms.” As Mila Kunis’ Amy explains it – Christmas is an incredibly hard time of the year to be a mom. There… Read More ›
The Martin McDonagh written and directed “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri” begins with a mother, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), deciding to rent some billboards in order to highlight the local police department’s inability to catch her daughter’s rapist and… Read More ›
We are all human and thus we know what it is to be sad and to cry. Movies are able to elicit tears by pressing certain buttons and Dee Rees’ “Mudbound” is excellent at knowing just how to push those… Read More ›
Justin Timberlake’s lifeguard/grad student, Mickey, wonderfully sets the stage in Woody Allen’s latest film, “Wonder Wheel.” In an opening explanation offered directly to the audience, he explains that we are at Coney Island following the Second World War. It is… Read More ›
Forgive me, this isn’t going to be quite a traditional review… “Marshall,” a biopic about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (played here by Chadwick Boseman) is, honestly, less a biopic than an exploration of one case Marshall worked on in… Read More ›
A pilot takes two passengers on a private flight through the mountains after a commercial one gets cancelled. There is bad weather coming in, the pilot has a nonchalant attitude, and… well, whatever may cause the plane to go down,… Read More ›
Although press screenings have been going on for the better part of two weeks, the 55th New York Film Festival officially began last night, and it did so with the world premiere of Richard Linklater’s newest movie, “Last Flag Flying.”… Read More ›
My first New York Film Festival screening for this year (yes, second published review) was of a Japanese film called “Before we Vanish.” Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the film follows the journey of three aliens who invade human bodies. These aliens… Read More ›
Many films start off with some sort of brief up-tempo sequence – a high-energy bit to draw in the audience and get them involved before slowing the movie down to what will become its regular pace. Doug Liman’s “American Made”… Read More ›
In 2016, the New York Film Fest offered up Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle.” Her performance in the film is outstanding and her Academy Award nomination for it is a well earned one (as is her Golden Globe win)…. Read More ›
I like the first “Kingsman” movie, “Kingsman: The Secret Service.” It isn’t a perfect film by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s audacious in a way that too few films are. It is a movie which really goes for… Read More ›
Stephen Frears tackled a portion of Queen Elizabeth II’s life with his 2006 film, “The Queen.” With his latest movie though he’s moving back in time by more than a century to look at a wholly different Queen of England… Read More ›
At one moment in “Home Again” (2017) the main character, Alice (Reese Witherspoon), finds herself lamenting her decision to have gotten married. Now 40 and separated, Alice says (I’m taking the quote from the press notes, the emphasis is theirs),… Read More ›
Horror movies are not my favorite genre. I have never seen a “Nightmare on Elm Street” movie, nor a “Friday the 13th.” More than once, I have loaded up their Wikipedia pages and read other articles about them, but I’ve… Read More ›
Directed by Tommy Wirkola, “What Happened to Monday” is easily seen as one in a line of films looking at a rather bleak near future. In the case of this particular near future, the continued havoc we have wrought on… Read More ›
There is a wonderful moment in “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” where bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) and hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) discuss which of them is the good guy. Bryce protects people’s lives, but those he is protecting tend… Read More ›
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