War for the Planet of the Apes is misnamed third movie in the Planet of the Apes reboot series. It’s an uneven movie that starts great and then takes a turn and winds up a pretty good flick in the … Continue reading
Spider-Man: Homecoming is the latest reboot of the Spider-Man character and also the follow-up to his cameo in Captain America: Civil War. Tom Holland, the new Peter Parker / Spidey, made a great first impression in Civil War and he … Continue reading
Baby Driver is a cool new heist movie starring cool actors playing cool characters. The movie is going for cool and knows its cool and that could have gone wrong but instead goes mostly right. It’s all style and plenty … Continue reading
So I could copy and paste my review of every other Transformers movie for my review of Transformers: The Last Knight… but I won’t. I will say many of the same things but I’d also add this is slightly more … Continue reading
The latest remake of The Mummy (staring Tom Cruise as not-the-mummy) is also the latest attempt to launch a Universal Monsters cinematic universe (previously attempted and failed with the NOT-starring-tom-cruise Dracula Untold). This new movie is not an auspicious start … Continue reading
So Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is about as good as most the rest of the series. If that makes you say, “Cool! I should go see it” then ok. Someone has to like these movies. … Continue reading
So I liked Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 more than the first one… though I would understand why many wouldn’t. Now, I liked Guardians Vol 1 but I didn’t like it nearly as much as some – it was … Continue reading
Free Fire is a new action film that’s pretty much a genre experiment more than it is a movie. Basically it’s a 70’s era crime action flick that takes place in one location and is mostly a 45-50 minute gun … Continue reading
So, The Fate of the Furious is the 8th movie in this series of car racing/theft/spy/whatever flicks. And like the last three or four of them, it largely abandons whatever the series started as and goes with automotive super-spy / … Continue reading
Checked out Ghost in the Shell, the new Scarlett Johansson action sci-fi flick loosely based on the original anime film (and possibly some of its spinoffs) from the mid 90s. I’m of two minds about this pic. As a stand-alone … Continue reading