Quickie review: The Harder They Fall
The Western has always been a pretty white genre. The Harder They Fall turns that on its head. With a superb cast (Idris Elba, Regina King, Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Edi…
Review: The Suicide Squad
What a difference a ‘The’ makes?! I was not a fan of 2016’s Suicide Squad and had my doubts about watching another group of warped DC Comic Universe villains being…
Review: CATS
Speaking of memories... I still have my ticket stub from the July 27, 1983 performance of CATS at the Wintergarden Theatre on Broadway. It was a Wednesday matinee and my…
Quickie Reviews: Gloria Bell; Yardie
What’s with all the remakes of decent if not exceptional foreign films lately? In recent months, we’ve seen Americanized versions of the 2011 feel-good French film The Intouchables (remade as…
Review: Molly’s Game
Molly's Game is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, a competitive freestyle skier who famously blew her Olympics chance and then rose to the pinnacle of the high…
(Spoiler-free) Review: Thor: Ragnarok
What exactly is Ragnarok? I’m not quite sure and I don’t really care. What I do know is this: Thor: Ragnarok is a very funny superhero action-adventure sci-fi fantasy movie…
Review: The Mountain Between Us
There’s plenty to mock and ridicule and dislike about The Mountain Between Us. And yet… there’s a certain entertainment value in watching a combination meet-cute/disaster flick when it stars Idris…
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Quickie Reviews: The Dark Tower; Brigsby Bear; Detroit; Step; An Inconvenient Sequel; Escapes
The Dark Tower. I’m not a Stephen King purist so I didn’t go into this movie with the same high expectations as those who’ve read the series of books that…
Star Trek Beyond
The third installment of the Star Trek reboot is for me the weakest yet, relying on big battles and CGI more than the characters and stories that made the first…
Beasts of No Nation
The saddest aspect of many of today's conflicts is the presence of child soldiers, conscripted into becoming killers at a time they should be learning to read and write and…
Pacific Rim
WHAT?? DID I LIKE THE MOVIE??? WHY AM I SHOUTING???? Maybe it’s because my ears are still ringing from watching Pacific Rim in IMAX 3D. Let’s just say it was…
Prometheus
I really wanted to like Prometheus. Really I did. I have loved Ridley Scott movies in the past. Alien was groundbreaking. Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies ever.…