The new movie Breakthrough is, to me, a movie I’m happy was finally released. Happy because I saw the same trailer for this thing at nearly every movie I went to see (and you know that’s a lot – dozens … Continue reading
Also checked out a random theatrical release called Mia and the White Lion. I had seen one trailer for it – but the movie is so obscure, the trailer was playing in front of another movie while it was already … Continue reading
So I checked out the movie The Public the other day… and I can say with some assurance that this is the very best movie ever produced about the Cincinnati Public Library that has yet been made. Might even be … Continue reading
Checked out the new flick Best of Enemies which is the true story of school integration and the unlikely friendship between the Klan leader and a black community activist in 1970. This is a well-meaning but ultimately wrong-headed and poorly … Continue reading
So, never thought we’d live in a world where Motley Crue had a biopic on Netflix but here we are. The movie is called The Dirt and that’s a fairly accurate title. It’s based on a book the band co-wrote … Continue reading
For a bad time at the theater, you probably want to check out the new terrorism-fueled film Hotel Mumbai. This is the film based on the wide-spread terror attack on Mumbai in general and the Taj Hotel in particular that … Continue reading
So the latest Disney live-action remake of a classic animated flick is at theaters. Tim Burton’s version of Dumbo… and that sentence contains two triggers for me. I do not like the original animated Dumbo movie. As a kid, I … Continue reading
Also checked out the new film Gloria Bell. About all I knew about it was that it has high review scores and stars Julianne Moore who I like. So going in blind. Gloria Bell is a character piece about … Continue reading
Checked out the positively confounding sci-fi paranoia political thriller (I guess) Captive State this weekend. I’d only seen one trailer for this one and it’s coming out in the shadow of the latest Marvel blockbuster so it doesn’t seem they … Continue reading
Checked out (blindly) the new sports film (produced by Tim Tebow, apparently) Run the Race. Sports – and christian – film as it turns out. Run the Race is about a poor family in Florida where the eldest son … Continue reading