Remember the first live-action Transformers movie? The one with Steven Spielberg watching over Michael Bay’s shoulder so there was as much character as action? Bumblebee is even better than that.
Tag: Movie Reviews
Mary Poppins Is Two Hours of Pure Joy!
Occasionally you come across a movie that just makes you feel wonderful from start to finish. Mary Poppins Returns is one of those films.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is Web-Slinging at its Best!
The last major animated feature released in 2018 just might be its best. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is spectacular!
Mortal Engines Stalls!
In a world ripped apart (literally) by quantum energy weapons called Medusas, Cities and towns could only survive by becoming mobile. Mortal Engines opens with a chase sequence like nothing you’ve ever seen before – the massive London bearing down on a small mining town. It’s very exciting – but then we start meeting characters…
Ralph Breaks the Internet – Literally and Figuratively!
Now that Walt Disney Animation Studios equals Pixar for quality in both story and animation quality, we can be happy to see two movies from the studios in the same year. Incredibles 2 was a lot of fun and now, Ralph Breaks the Internet comes along and is even better.
Robin Hood: A Bit of a Mess but a Fun Ride!
Otto Bathurst’s Robin Hood aims to out-Ritchie Guy Ritchie in this weirdly familiar take on Robin Hood – weird because it emulates Ritchie’s directing style; is influenced more than a little by Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins; Irish leading lady Eve Hewson sounds very American, and, like Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger, it’s a bit of […]
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald – Not The Empire Strikes Back of the Wizarding World!
The second chapter in the Fantastic Beasts Quintology is fun – mostly because of the beasts and the relationships. It could have done without so much Grindelwald (one of Johnny Depp’s least distinguished efforts).
First Man Is Mesmerizing!
Damien Chazelle’s third film, First Man, is the story of NASA’s efforts to get to the moon – as seen, mostly, from the point of view of Neil Armstrong and his wife, Janet.
The Witch Files: Ambitious Tween Horror-Comedy!
The Americans’ Holly Taylor and genre veteran Paget Brewster are the biggest names in The Witch Files – a smarter than necessary tween horror-comedy that isn’t quite scary enough to be a scary movie, or funny enough to be a comedy. It hits a kind of sweet spot in between that produces a few chills […]
Await Further Instructions – Scary Christmas!
A family Christmas goes from casual racism to terror when the family home is surrounded by what appears to be a mysterious black sheath covering the entire building in Await Further Instructions.
A Star Is born Is Mesmerizing!
Despite this being the fourth film based on the same story idea, Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born is the best of them all.