The Garfield Movie
Pre-pandemic, I would not have bothered going to a movie about Garfield the cat. I simply didn't care all that much about the comic strip cat known for his laziness,…
Quickie Review: The Tomorrow War
Hey, look - it’s Chris Pratt! In a sci-fi movie! With big mean monsters! How… familiar! The biggest difference between The Tomorrow War and some of Pratt’s other big action…
Review: Onward
I may be slightly out of step with the masses on this one. Time will tell. I liked Onward, but I didn’t love it, and I’m not so sure the…
Review: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
The ‘Jurassic’ world as we know it is devolving -- into a standard, formulaic and largely predictable monster movie franchise. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is still watchable, mainly thanks to…
Spoiler-Free Review: Avengers: Infinity War
I don’t know what to say. Really. There’s little to say, without giving too much away. So here’s the spoiler-free gist: The Avengers - and their superhero allies from across…
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 does what a good sequel is supposed to do. It preserves the elements that made the first one a big success (intergalactic action and…
Passengers
Passengers is basically Castaway in space – with a bit of Gravity and The Martian thrown into the mix. Only it’s not as good as the aforementioned titles, mostly because…
The Magnificent Seven
A remake of a remake has a lot to live up to. The original was the Japanese film Seven Samurai, shot in 1954, considered one of director Akira Kurosawa's masterpieces…
Jurassic World
I came really late to the Jurassic party, finally catching the original in re-release in 2013 -- 20 years after its theatrical debut. So it’s kind of a big deal…
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy is a good, entertaining summer flick filled with humor, sarcasm, sci-fi superhero angst, and action. But don’t make the same mistake I did… which was to…
Her
Her is really all about him, him being Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with his personalized operating system named Samantha (Scarlett Johansson). If this sounds a bit…