The new Beauty and the Beast live-action remake of the 1991 Disney original is a remarkably good film. I suspect it’ll be a better movie if I see it again without having to constantly compare and predict how it’s different … Continue reading
Checked out The Shack, a flick that sounds like a generic scary movie but is really an impressively crafted faith-based film. Based on a popular novel, it tells the story of a man whose daughter is murdered and is then … Continue reading
Also caught up on the 2016 Jackie, which stars Natalie Portman in an Academy Award nominated performance as Jacqueline Kennedy. Very good performance in a pretty mediocre film. Set immediately before, during, and at various points within a couple … Continue reading
Checked out Kong: Skull Island the, derp, latest King Kong flick. The general feeling is: it’s ok. It’s alright. It gets the job done but not without much flavor or brilliance. You can take it or leave it. Which is … Continue reading
Checked out Table 19, a new comedy starring a lot of good, funny people who should have known better. Anna Kendrick, Lisa Kudrow, Craig Robinson, Stephan Merchant,June Squib and a couple others play characters invited to a wedding out of … Continue reading
Checked out Logan, the latest – but certainly not the most typical – X-Men movie. As you may have heard, this is a tough R rated Wolverine movie with graphic violence and swearing. This is, I think, a great example … Continue reading
So finally got out to see Fifty Shades Darker… this is the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey which isn’t a very good movie but it was hardly the crime against cinema a lot of people make it out to … Continue reading
Caught a free preview screening of Before I Fall, a film a cynical person might call “Groundhog Day for Teens”. I am a cynical person. It was Groundhog Day for Teens… only serious-minded and dramatic and full of real life … Continue reading
The Girl with All the Gifts was a great novel that has been turned into a good film. Just released on streaming with a limited theatrical release, this is 50% a great film and 50% a good one – the … Continue reading
Checked out an early showing of Get Out, the new horror suspense paranoia thriller by Jordan Peele of Key and Peele fame. Yes, the comedian wrote and directed (but did not star in) his first film – a ‘black’ horror … Continue reading