Gray Man, The
The Gray Man doesn’t start strong and I was all settled into a really mediocre and annoyingly long sit… and then it wormed its way into me until I realized, no, I was actually having fun with this nonsense. And … Continue reading
The Gray Man doesn’t start strong and I was all settled into a really mediocre and annoyingly long sit… and then it wormed its way into me until I realized, no, I was actually having fun with this nonsense. And … Continue reading
All the Old Knives is a spy thriller starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton as intelligence officers (and former lovers) who were witness to a terrorist incident they couldn’t stop. Now, eight years later, the agency is convinced there was … Continue reading
The 355 is about a team of female agents, each from a different country’s intelligence agency, working together (eventually) to retrieve the most McGuffiny of McGuffins. A doohickey that lets baddies hack anything… cause planes to explode mid-air, shut down … Continue reading
The King’s Man is a fascinating film. It shouldn’t work. It starts kind of mediocre and then just ascends and ascends with total bug-nuttery until I had to sit back and admit I was enjoying myself. This mess somehow just… … Continue reading
Let’s skip to the chase here… I think No Time to Die is the best Daniel Craig Bond movie. And this will be controversial but I also think it’s the best 007 movie. Full stop. I know, I know. That’s … Continue reading
Truth is, I had almost no interest in watching this film. I just thought it was going to be sluggishly paced British spy drama that would leave me cold. But iTunes/Apple had it for 99 cents so I finally rented … Continue reading
You could almost argue that Black Widow is Marvel’s attempt to thank Scarlett Johansson by giving her an actor’s movie. By writing her a movie that allows her to stretch her acting skills and *gasp* actually play a three dimensional … Continue reading
When just about everything goes wrong with a movie, you get Redemption Day. It’s a wannabe Jack Ryan/Tom Clancy geopolitical thriller that doesn’t have the smarts for those ambitions. It’s poorly directed and mushily edited, the acting is sometimes pretty … Continue reading
Without Remorse’s first problem is a title so generic it makes me miss The Hunt for Red October and The Sum of All Fears. But a title isn’t a movie. In this case though, a generic title for a kind … Continue reading
The drama about Tenet’s release at theaters and now, finally, on streaming is greater, and more comprehensible, than the movie itself. Well, it finally did come to streaming and I finally did buy it (instead *gasp* of waiting 20 days … Continue reading