Jordan Peele’s first effort as a writer/director fairly simmers with rage – not at the clichéd southern-fried racist rednecks of most horror movies that have discrimination at their root, but at white liberals who have all the right friends and say all the right things (or what they think are the right things).
Category: Movie Reviews
The Great Wall: Great Movie? No! Great Fun? Yes!
Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall is the first Chinese big budget movie that is targeted at a global audience. It has a number of Chinese stars and one major American star and tells a story that brings East and West cultures together in an uncomfortable co-operation against a foe that, should it feed enough, could […]
Fist Fight Is Three O’Clock High With Potty-Mouthed Teachers!
Almost thirty years ago, there was a sleeper comedy hit called, Three O’Clock High, in which a nerd named Jerry Mitchell got himself in hot water with the school’s behemoth of a bully and found himself challenged to a fight after school. It was pretty good. Fist Fight is essentially the same film only with […]
I Am Jane Doe: Sexual Slavery of Children? In America?
I Am Jane Doe is the documentary that follows the efforts of the parents of survivors of child sex trafficking in America to take down the men who facilitated that trafficking via the website Backpage.com by hiding behind a law meant to help the internet grow. In and of itself, I Am Jane Doe is […]
The LEGO Batman Movie – Lacking Something/Everything!
The LEGO Movie was original, inventive, witty and stylish. Batman was used as punctuation – injected a bit of pompous self-congratulation while saving a few lives. The LEGO Batman Movie takes those few moments and puffs them up into a 104-minute excursion into the EGO part of The LEGO Batman. By the time he decides […]
John Wick: Chapter 2 Masters the Art of the Action Sequel
John Wick: Chapter 2 continues the adventures of the title character (Keanu Reeves), a master assassin who wants to leave his past behind and live a normal, quiet life (with his dog). When an old contact calls in a livelong favor, the rules of the guild stipulate that Wick go back into action for this […]
John Wick Chapter 2 – Now This Is How You Make an Action Movie!
The first John Wick film was one of the rare action flicks to actually warrant the title film. It was mad crazy in terms of action and remarkably thorough at sketching out the world in which the characters lived and worked. John Wick Chapter 2 expands that world in fun, messy ways and is even […]
Movie Review: Lego Batman Movie Gets Old. Michelle’s Review!
I think I may be the only person in the universe who has never understood the fascination with Legos and didn’t particularly like The Lego Movie. I appreciated the humor in it, but ultimately it falls apart and doesn’t work as a movie. The same thing happens again with The Lego Batman Movie. It starts […]
The Space Between Us Doesn’t Exactly Soar But It Gets There!
Talk about an awkward teen romance! Gardner Eliot is the first true Martian – born there in 2018 – and the first true Martian orphan (his mother died in childbirth). When he meets Tulsa, another orphan, via the Internet (by 2034 we have instantaneous internet connections between Earth and Mars!), he falls in love.
And Now For Something Completely Different: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Japanese Trailer!
You’re Welcome! Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opens everywhere on May 5th.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter?
Milla Jovovich’s Alice is back to put an end to Umbrella corp. and its hideous creations once and for all. In a movie that’s the diametric opposite end of the spectrum from the charming hokum of A Dog’s Purpose, the one thing RE6 has in common with that good natured effort is dogs – in […]