Quickie Review: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
This has to be a quickie review because I don't want to get into trouble with the Wizarding World and all you muggles out there who pay close attention to…
Review: The Rhythm Section
Think of your heart as the drums, your breathing as the bass. That’s pretty much my only takeaway of note from The Rhythm Section and I’m still not sure how…
Review: Captain Marvel
I'll tread carefully here, though I don't think there are many actual spoilers to worry about. That’s because Captain Marvel is an origin story meant to set the stage for…
Review: Vox Lux
Vox Lux aka A Pop Star is Born begins in 1999 with a school shooting where young Celeste played by Raffey Cassidy (Tomorrowland, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) is…
Genius
Growing up in small town Asheville, North Carolina, we didn't have many famous people we could claim. But the great writer Thomas Wolfe was ours. So when they made a…
The Grand Budapest Hotel
In his latest fabulously outrageous film The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson introduces us to Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), the concierge to end all concierges who takes enterprising lobby boy…
Side Effects
Here’s how the studio pitches it: “SIDE EFFECTS is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when…
Anna Karenina
If ever there were a Chick Flick shoo in, this should be it. A tragic heroine foolishly throwing off her shackles for a forbidden love, and all wrapped up in…
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
They're baaack! Holmes and Watson (Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law) pick up slightly after we last saw them in the first Sherlock Holmes. Dr. Watson is about to be…
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Terry Gilliam does not make mainstream movies. They are always quirky and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is no exception. Part of the strangeness this time is that (as anyone…
Sherlock Holmes
If you go to Sherlock Holmes expecting anything resembling Basil Rathbone or any other incarnation of the staid Sherlock Holmes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books, you'll be happily surprised…
No Shirt Sherlock
I am sure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would not approve of the upcoming Guy Ritchie version of his Sherlock Holmes. From the looks of the trailer, it is very 21st…