Rian Johnson’s follow up to Star Wars: The Last Jedi finds him working new angles on the classic cozy mystery subgenre.
Knives Out: Rian Johnson Out Cozies Agatha Christie!
Category: Movie Reviews
Doctor Sleep is Too Long but Still Unsettling!
Doctor Sleep follows the decades-older Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) – now going by just Dan – as he wallows in booze and casual sex to keep his Shining from shining – Until something strange happens.
Terminator: Dark Fate, Not That Bad, Michelle’s Review Spoiler Free
Terminator: Dark Fate wants to pretend like the last 4 or 5 sequels to T2, I’ve lost count, didn’t happen. It brings back the greatness that is Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and uber god amongst men James Cameron and bring Tim Miller one of the brains behind the hugely popular Deadpool films on board to […]
Terminator: Dark Fate Is a Surprisingly Fun Ride!
Terminator: Dark Fate easily surpasses the low bar set by the third, fourth and fifth movies in the series – and not least because it completely ignores them and has a few different and entertaining tweaks.
Western Stars – The Boss Takes His Storytelling To Film!
When he released his Western Stars album, Bruce Springsteen decided not to tour in support of it. Instead, he made a film that’s part performance, part documentary and part something else.
Joker – Dark But Compelling!
Todd Phillip’s take on DC’s most iconic villain is a ground level, if-it-happened-in-the real-world-it-might-look-like-this, take on the Clown Prince of Crime.
Ad Astra – An Intimate Journey Played Out At The End of the Solar System!
Ad Astra (Latin for ‘To the Stars’) is, ostensibly, a tale of a son daring everything to reconnect with his father. While it does that, it might, even more importantly, be a tale of man finding himself at the end of the solar system. What you need to know: Brad Pitt makes an interplanetary search […]
The Goldfinch: Lovely to Look At; Less Than a Skeleton of the Book!
Donna Tart’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel comes to the big screen in a lovely to look film that misunderstands its source material.
IT Chapter 2 – Long & Involved and Scary as Hell!
If you loved IT, you’ll probably love IT Chapter 2. It’s smart, creepy, scary and poignant – with enough of Stephen King’s characteristic dark humor to provide adequate balance to the scares.
Spider-Man: Far From Home Blew my Mind! Michelle’s Spoiler Free Review!
I feel like I need to say this before any Marvel review this year, I’m a long time Marvel comic book fangirl, but I’ve never been a MCU can do no wrong fan girl. In my eyes, they’ve done plenty of wrong. I absolutely detested Spider-Man: Homecoming. Ok, that’s a bit harsh, I loved Michael […]
Long Shot Gives an Old Formula New Life!
The newest film from the producing team of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg is an R-rated male fantasy enclosed within a political rom-com. It’s funny as… the word is ‘fork’ isn’t it?