Category: Reviews
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X-Men: Apocalypse is good. It’s fun to watch. But it isn’t brilliant.
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Fast forward to the year 1983. Apocalypse awakens. The U.S. remembers the tenth anniversary of how “Mystique” (Jennifer Lawrence) stopped “Magneto” (Michael Fassbender) from killing the president. Magneto remains the world’s most wanted man but…
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‘Money Monster’ rates a strong buy
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Betting on ‘Money Monster’ is safer than investing in high-risk stocks picked by pundits
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‘Kill Zone 2’ is a sequel in name only but packs the punch of the original
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In 2005 a throwback to the great Hong Kong action flicks came along from writer/director Wilson Yip titled SPL: Kill Zone. It was reminiscent of the kind of action flicks we used to see from…
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‘Mother’s Day’ is a wonderful holiday but a lousy movie
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Six years later we get Mother’s Day which has a great cast whose talents are obscured by a bad movie. The movie begins a few days before the titular holiday and takes place in Atlanta.
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‘The Boss’ is…not so boss but it is damn funny
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Melissa McCarthy is funny in anything and everything. And in her latest comedy The Boss she gets a lot of laughs.
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‘Captain America: Civil War’ is Marvel at its best
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It doesn’t get much better than this for superhero-themed movies. Marvel rolls out the first of its two films this year, delivering a one-two punch with the third film in the Captain America series. And it…
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‘Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice’ is strong on visuals, weak on story
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There is much to like about Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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‘How to Be Single’ is a primer on the good and the bad of rom-coms
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There are moments in this movie that offer true insight into the reality of being single. There are also moments where this film could be labeled “How Not to Make a Rom-Com.” The problem being…
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‘Deadpool’ breaks the 4th wall in a wonderful way
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“I wanted to make room for antiheroes” – William Gibson, author of “Neuromancer” The titular character in Deadpool is super but not by birth. Anyone familiar with his origins in the Marvel comic book universe…
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Never mind Caesar, Hail the Coen Brothers!
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“Would that it were so simple” – Alden Ehrenreich as ‘Hobie Doyle’ Hail, Caesar! is the latest in a long line of superior movies made by the Coen brothers. Their formula of creating interesting stories…