Movie Review: Pacific Rim: Uprising
At least Pacific Rim: Uprising knows what it is. The original had lots of Guillermo del Toro subplots that were promising but unfulfilling. Uprising dispenses …
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Movie Review: A Wrinkle in Time
It’s pretty easy to see why Ava DuVernay was attracted to A Wrinkle in Time. She must have read that novel as a young girl, …
Movie Review: Coco
Don’t confuse my rating for powerful praise. A Pixar movie about the Dia De Los Muertos directed by the Toy Story 3 director was gonna …
Movie Review: Okja
Bong Joon Ho is in a war with Chan-wook Park for the title of best living director from Korea. Park stormed out of the gate …
Movie Review: Alien: Covenant
Alien: Covenant represents everything that is wrong with nostalgia based moviemaking. Let’s use a transcendent, genre subverting franchise to tell the SAME story but with …
Movie Review: Power Rangers
I watched the Power Rangers starting at 6 and for much too long afterward. The zords (giant Ranger robots) were front and center of my …
Movie Review: Beauty and the Beast (2017)
The tale as old as time is back everyone! The Disney live action remake of Beauty and the Beast is here to sweep you up …
Movie Review: Kong: Skull Island
Kong: Skull Island is a serviceable checklist summer blockbuster in March: Good looking leads? Check. CGI Spectacle/Action? Check. Cartoonishly line delivering bad guy? Check. Franchise …
Movie Review: Minority Report
What are the pieces of a great sci-fi movie? Usually the source material is from a stellar writer, especially the master Philip K. Dick. This …
Fall Movie Preview: The Mainstream Popcorn Entertainment
No, the Oscars doesn’t just dominate the fall, there’s also some fun stuff that will be released as well: MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF …