Warner Brothers has done something no one would have predicted a year ago – released to good-to-great superheroes inside a calendar year. (No, they’re nowhere near Marvel consistently, but they’re moving in the right direction.) Justice League maintains the portentous/brutalist look that director Zack Snyder set for the DCEU, but following the few faint glimmerings […]
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Taika Waititi Puts His Stamp on Thor: Ragnorak!
Warner Bros. has long touted their approach as hiring great directors and letting them stamp their own style on the DC movies. Marvel has been doing that since Jon Favreau directed Iron Man – and they’ve done it again with Thor: Ragnarok. No one but Taika Waititi could have made this delightfully oddball comedy of […]
Movie Review: Thor: Ragnarok Michelle’s Take!
My main issue with the other two Thor movies were how cheap both of them looked. That’s not the case with Thor: Ragnarok. Director Taika Waititi delivers a fast paced, quip filled movie that has a rainbow of cotton candy colors and riotous set design work that still left me feeling a bit let down. […]
Movie Review: All I See Is You, Michelle’s Take.
In one of the weirder studio emails I ever received, the studio asked us to not call Director Marc Forster’s latest film All I See Is You a “Thriller.” No it’s an drama or an “obsessive love story.” So I’m going to go with the later description. Or better yet, let me make up my […]
Happy Death Day – Enthusiastic Exploration of Groundhog Day Concept as a Horror Comedy!
When I sat down to watch Happy Death Day, I was hoping for the best. After all the recurring day trope has provided some interesting and entertaining movies and several brilliant episodes of otherwise not so great TV shows. What I wasn’t expecting was a genuinely clever series of variations on a theme that yielded […]
Blade Runner 2049 – A Thoughtful, Provocative Sci-Fi Epic!
Officer K – a blade runner working out of LAPD – finishes an assignment and sets off a chain reaction that could be world altering.
Blade Runner 2049 – An Uninspired Clone. Michelle’s (SPOILER Free) Review!
Hello, my name is Michelle Alexandria, I hate Blade Runner. I know I’m alone on my island, it’s peaceful here. Despite numerous attempts, I’ve never been able to make it past the first 40 minutes so I promised myself to watch it fully before seeing Blade Runner 2049. I wanted to fully understand it’s tedious […]
Kingsman: The Golden Circle Review (SPOILER FREE!)
The Kingsman: Golden Circle was one of the best times I had at movies all year long. The movie is over the top, frenetic, and at times funny as hell. If you asked me, and the studio did, I would have said it’s one of my favorite films of 2017. Damn being a critic, I […]
Kingsman: The Golden Circle Is a Superior Sequel!
There are a handful of sequels that are as good as (or better than) their progenitors – The Godfather 2, Superman II, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and The Dark Knight come to mind – and now Kingsman: The Golden Circle joins that elite list. Following the heavy expositional load of the thoroughly […]
American Assassin – Meet Damaged Assassin Mitch Rapp!
American Assassin is based on the book of the same title by the late Vince Flynn, and introduces us to Mitch Rapp – a wounded young man who saw his fiancée killed by terrorists and decides to go after them himself. It could have been a pedestrian thriller by committed performances by Dylan O’Brien, Michael […]
mother! the Metaphor
mother! is the story of nameless people and objects who serve as proxies for life and art. Jennifer Lawrence stars as a woman who spends her days building and styling a remote house that is in desperate need of repair and shine. In between chipping away at odd jobs around the derelict domicile, she often […]