Review: Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It
EGOT*. If you know what that is, you may also be aware of Rita Moreno's body of work. This film about her is a fairly straightforward tribute documentary, with talking…
Quickie Review: Angel Has Fallen
This one's easy: If you saw and liked Olympus Has Fallen and/or London Has Fallen, then there’s absolutely no harm in catching Angel Has Fallen. For the trifecta! The characters,…
Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur revisited is the best movie for the faith-based crowd since Gods of Egypt, and I say that with tongue firmly in cheek. Both are really weak. Like the 1959…
Lucy
I generally like Luc Besson movies -- The Fifth Element, Leon: The Professional, La Femme Nikita. He writes some pretty interesting female characters who frequently have to fend for themselves…
Now You See Me
So I had a choice of overlapping screenings: After Earth (a sci-fi adventure with the father-son team of Will and Jaden Smith) or Now You See Me, a heist movie…
Oblivion
Tom Cruise plays quintessential Tom Cruise (aka a heroic guy named Jack) in this epic post-Armageddon sci-fi fantasy flick about a drone repairman who goes rogue in an effort to…
Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus has Fallen is the movie that the producers of 24 probably wanted to make, eventually, and that a Die Hard 6 may aspire to be, someday. But Jack Bauer…
The Dark Knight Rises
There are movies. And then there are MOVIES. The Dark Knight Rises (a.k.a. the latest, and some say the last, Batman) is most definitely the latter. It has an epic…
Invictus
Two questions come to mind when you watch Clint Eastwood's new feel good movie Invictus. Did rugby really make that big a difference in race relations in South Africa? And…