What would you do to save your mother’s life? For most people that’s a hypothetical. For John, though, it’s a pressing concern that may cost him dearly. This is an early review – Glassland opens in the U.S. on March 18th (it opens in select Canadian theaters and VOD on March 11th).
Category: Movie Reviews
Zootopia – Deceptively Twisted Fun!
With a trio of high quality films (Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen, Big Hero 6) in the last few years, Disney’s animation studio has been on a roll. Zootopia takes their game to the next level – equal to Pixar’s best level. Set in a world where humanity never existed – and mammals evolved past their predator/prey […]
London Has Fallen: The Return of Super Mike Banning!
If you’ve seen Olympus Has Fallen, then you have a pretty good idea of what to expect from London Has Fallen – plus even more explosions.
Spotlight Blu-ray Review!
Spotlight, The Best Picture of the Year, according to Oscar voters, is now available on Blu-ray/Digital HD.
Gods of Egypt Is Loud But Not Proud!
Even with #OscarsSoWhite and a cast of Egyptians played by Caucasians, Gods of Egypt could have gotten by if it was a good movie – and with the director of The Crow and Dark City and a cast that includes Geoffrey Rush, Bryan Brown, Rufus Sewell, Elodie Yung, Chadwick Boseman, Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, […]
Race Jogs But It Gets There In The End!
For a movie about the then fastest man alive, Race certainly takes its time – the story of how Jesse Owens became the winner of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics of 1936 makes up its more dawdling sections with unexpected (frequently truth is stranger than fiction) details and a strong performance by Stephan […]
Now Weasel’s Never Going To Win The Deadpool!
Deadpool is a nasty, sarcastic, R-rated wonder. The movie combined origin story and revenge movie tropes in a parody/spoof/satire of superhero movies that works an example of the genre, too.
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – A Clever Idea Runs Out of Steam!
‘It is a universally acknowledged truth that a zombie in possession of brains must be in search of more brains.’ Thus begins Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – the movie adaptation of the novel that married Jane Austin’s social satire to the zombie apocalypse. All the important plot points (and best lines) from the novel […]
The Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar Is a Demented Delight!
The Coen Brothers’ love of movies – especially, in this case, movies of the fifties – has never been in greater display than in Hail, Caesar. As the film follows Capitol Films’ Head of Physical Production, Eddie Mannix, through twenty-fours of doing his job (he fixes problems that the studio’s actors create) we are taken […]
The Finest Hours Weathers the Storm!
Disney’s The Finest Hours is based on a book about the greatest small boat rescue in the history of the Coast Guard. Bernie Webber and his crew (four, counting him) rescued thirty-two sailors from the aft half of the Pendleton, a tanker sheared in half by a blizzard in February of 1952. The film, which […]
The 5th Wave Is Just Too Obvious!
The idea of a teenaged girl leading the forces of good to victory over seemingly overwhelming odds is one of the most used tropes in YA fiction. The 5th Wave is only the latest movie to riff on that idea. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of everyone involved, it’s just too easy to figure out […]