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• Movie Review: “The Spy who Dumped me”

  By Josh Lasser on August 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I have previously suggested that Kate McKinnon is a national treasure and that it is only a matter of time before the country, as a whole, recognizes as much (perhaps others have said this too, but I know that I… Read More ›

• “Overboard” (2018) and the Nothingburger

  By Josh Lasser on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  There are words/phrases which we all dislike.  Personally, I don’t enjoy “nothingburger” (or “nothing burger” or “nothing-burger” depending on what way you want to write it).  And yet, just because I don’t like it, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t perfectly… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Teen Titans Go! To The Movies”

  By Josh Lasser on July 26, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Roughly at the point where baby Kal-El’s bare bottom hits the screen, “Teen Titans Go! To The Movies” will have convinced you of its own cleverness.  Directed by Peter Rida Michail and Aaron Horvath with a script from Michael Jelenic… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Skyscraper”

  By Josh Lasser on July 12, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  There are few actors out there today whose personalities are as magnetic as that of Dwayne Johnson.  Forget the muscles, the man can just about carry a film based upon the wattage of his smile.  Give Johnson a good script… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation”

  By Josh Lasser on July 11, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I was, you will know if you read the review, not a fan of “Hotel Transylvania 2.”   I thought the message was an awful, disgusting, one.  For this third film in the franchise, “Hotel Transylvania 3:  Summer Vacation,” still directed… Read More ›

• “A Quiet Place” Makes a Big Noise

  By Josh Lasser on July 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Film is a visual medium, we’ve all been told this, but the way sound is employed is still crucial.  There are so many examples of brilliant use of sound, and one of them is out on Blu-ray as of today… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The First Purge”

  By Josh Lasser on July 4, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The third “Purge” movie, “The Purge: Election Year,” effectively forced the franchise to head in a (or another) new direction and so it has, with the latest entry offering up the tale of “The First Purge.” Although the film is… Read More ›

• Our Mission? Five Films in one Week

  By Josh Lasser on July 3, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  My daughter and I recently set ourselves a task — to watch all five “Mission:  Impossible” movies in a single week.  Not only did we succeed, but we got to see the evolution of this incredible film franchise. Tom Cruise’s… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Uncle Drew”

  By Josh Lasser on June 28, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The goals of a film are an essential part in determining whether it is a success.  Not every movie sets out to win an Oscar.  Not every movie sets out to make an audience understand a deep-seated societal ill.  Some… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Sicario: Day of the Soldado”

  By Josh Lasser on June 27, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  It is possible that in my preparation for reviewing “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” I made a mistake.  That is, it ought not have been an error, but it certainly hampered my enjoyment of the sequel to the 2015 version… Read More ›

• Getting Peevish Towards “Acrimony”

  By Josh Lasser on June 26, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Tyler Perry’s “Acrimony” has now hit Blu-ray shelves nationwide, and the big question may not be whether you should buy it (you shouldn’t), but whether you should remake the movie once you decide you don’t (again, you shouldn’t). In this… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”

  By Josh Lasser on June 20, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  The original “Jurassic Park” features a series of discussions weighing the benefits and problems of having created dinosaurs in our present world.  It clearly comes down against the scientific act, but it at least goes in for a discussion of… Read More ›

• “The Death of Stalin” and the 21st Century

  By Josh Lasser on June 19, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Armano Iannucci’s “The Death of Stalin” is now out on home video, and it’s a film well worth one’s time.  Not only is it an exceptionally dark, terribly funny, film about the events surrounding Stalin’s death in 1950s’ Russia, it… Read More ›

• “Sherlock Gnomes” Helps Discover the Way Forward

  By Josh Lasser on June 15, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Let me tell you a story. It involves garden gnomes. So. Many. Garden gnomes. Now, let me tell you a different story. Yes, it also has garden gnomes. So. Many. Garden gnomes. How many stories could there be involving garden… Read More ›

• Notes from a Writer: “Hereditary” and Cheap Thrills

  By Josh Lasser on June 14, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  It takes a lot to psych me up to go see a horror film.  There has to be something in it more than chills, whether that’s a paycheck or the recommendation of a trusted friend or a major cultural impact…. Read More ›

• “Coming to America” & “Trading Places” – Comedy Classics and Mistakes?

  By Josh Lasser on June 12, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I don’t want to say that the 1980s were a better decade for comedies than all other decades, but it is undeniably true that the ’80s featured some truly memorable, wonderful, comedies. This year, “Trading Places” is celebrating its 35th… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Ocean’s 8”

  By Josh Lasser on June 8, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The new “Ocean’s 8,” which features a female-centric cast, is most definitely a part of the same universe as the three films directed by Steven Soderbergh. We know this because Sandra Bullock’s Debbie Ocean acknowledges that George Clooney’s Danny Ocean was… Read More ›

• Changing History: “Terminator: Genisys” & “Forrest Gump”

  By Josh Lasser on June 7, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  In this special, extra edition of “Lass is More,” we look at “Terminator: Genisys” and “Forrest Gump,” two movies that muck about with the timeline.  The former does it within its own timeline–that is, the earlier “Terminator” films–and the latter… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Hotel Artemis”

  By Josh Lasser on June 6, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  A lot of movies (for that matter a lot of television shows and books as well) make promises. Sometimes these promises are implied, not explicit, but they exist nonetheless.  At the outset of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” we are… Read More ›

• The Voice of Wendy Darling on “Peter Pan”

  By Josh Lasser on June 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Today’s podcast episode features Kathryn Beaumont, the voice of Wendy Darling, as well as author and historian Mindy Johnson.  The two women stop by in support of the new Blu-ray edition of Peter Pan, which is out today. Just what… Read More ›

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