Movie Review: If Beale Street Could Talk
Sometimes directors adapting specific writers make so much sense you wish they’d team up more. Michael Lewis’s The Big Short could only have been properly …
2018
Movie Review: Vice
About a decade ago, nothing excited me more than the latest Will Ferrell movie directed by Adam McKay. When you release movies like Anchorman, Talladega …
Movie Review: Ben Is Back
It feels like Ben Is Back was afraid of losing viewers after the first hour of the movie. After opening as a film about how …
Movie Review: Bumblebee
A prequel about the robot from Transformers that doesn’t talk? Yikes, sounds super awful. And then, strange, good things start happening. Travis Knight, not Michael …
Movie Review: Second Act
Second Act is one of those movies you too easily roll your eyes at and ignore. Jennifer Lopez in a wacky workplace comedy where she’s …
Movie Review: Bird Box
Bird Box feels like Netflix’s response to not producing A Quiet Place. I can see the board meeting now: “Why can’t we make it, like, …
Movie Review: The Mule
Even though I’m not the biggest Clint Eastwood fan, I gotta admire the guy. He continually pumps out movie after movie, where even the bad …
Movie Review: Aquaman
One of the joys of superhero movies is seeing something that you would never have ever imagined seeing before. So, even if the plot leaves …
Movie Review: Mary Poppins Returns
The original Mary Poppins is one of those magical movie experiences I hope every child gets a chance to see and feel. Magical is one …
Movie Review: Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Stuart vs. Elizabeth Tudor: rivalry of the Millennium. Only to be ruined by dumb men. The 2018 Mary Queen of Scots tries show us …