Movie Review #400: Rookie of the Year
There hasn’t been a really good kid’s sports movie (maybe Bend It Like Beckham) since the early 1990s, the golden era of kids playing sports. …
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Movie Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Movie universes are the hot new thing this decade. Comic books (good and bad, and somewhere in the middle) have them. Teen love triangles have …
Movie Review: Bleed For This
A boxing movie is a rite of passage for every young actor trying to prove themselves. They get to show off physically and talent-wise with …
Movie Review: Hacksaw Ridge
This is Mel Gibson back in his wheelhouse. The man always could deliver a stellar action sequence, and you know a movie called Hacksaw Ridge …
Movie Review: Dr. Strange
On Paper, DC Comics should blow Marvel out of the water. Batman AND Superman in a movie together vs. Iron Man and Spider Man? No …
Movie Review: Ouija: Origin of Evil
Every year for me as a moviegoer, one genre usually stands out amongst the rest as their year. 2016 for me is the year of …
Movie Review: The Accountant
Turns out Batman is John Nash, who knew? The Accountant is Ben Affleck’s attempt to stay busy in between Caped Crusadering. One the one hand, …
Movie Review: The Birth of a Nation
The original Birth of a Nation was America’s first film blockbuster; however, it is now best remembered as a film that romanticized the Ku Klux …
Movie Review: American Honey
Andrea Arnold likes writing movies about poor young people trying to achieve their even small dreams. Despite their misguided worldview, Arnold’s British characters contain some …
Movie Review: The Girl on the Train
Gone Girl took the world by storm last year. Rosamund Pike joined the ranks of great femme fatales, and Batfleck and David Fincher made that …