Two runaway kids find an apparently abandoned cop car in the middle of nowhere – with no one else around. What to do. What to do. How about take it for a joyride? Problem: the car belongs to a corrupt, murderous sheriff and there’s an unexpected surprise in the trunk.
Category: Movie Reviews
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation – Scintillating Summer Fun!
I’m not sure M:I Rogue Nation is better than Ghost Protocol (which was pretty amazing) but it is certainly its equal.
Beyond The Brick: A LEGO Brickumentary – LEGO: Much More Than Just A Toy!
What do the NBA’s Dwight Howard, Grammy-winner Ed Sheeran and South Park co-creator Trey Parker have in common with JPL scientists, sculptors, artists and filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller – not mention millions of kids of all ages? If you guessed LEGO, you’d be right – which is kind of the point of Beyond […]
Vacation – Maybe a Staycation Would Have Been a Better Idea!
Vacation, the 29-years later sequel to National Lampoon’s Vacation, is a rude, crass hard R-rated comedy that I really should have liked – but didn’t. One of a handful of silent viewers in a full theater of howling people, I just found Vacation to be mean-spirited and, with a few exceptions, terribly unfunny.
Southpaw – Jake Gyllenhaal Goes The Distance!
Jake Gyllenhaal’s latest film, Southpaw wants desperately to be the Rocky or maybe Rocky 5 for the current generation. For the most part the story of light heavyweight champ Billy Hope (Gyllenhaal) mostly works. If you saw any boxing film in the last 30 years, you’ll see some of the well-worn plot turns coming a […]
Pixels – Hi-Tech 8-Bit Fun!
As someone who got really good at Galaga in the eighties – and had found Adam Sandler virtually intolerable in everything he did after Funny People – I was pleasantly surprised by how often I laughed at Pixels. Even the premise – aliens misinterpret a message of simple greetings that included samples of arcade games […]
Ant-Man – Go small Or Go Home!
Ant-Man will likely be the best superhero movie of the year. Following in the wake of the huge Avengers: Age of Ultron, it was a canny move for Marvel to go small – it enabled the Peyton Redd directed movie to cheerfully subvert superhero movies while being a terrific one itself. As an Edgar Wright […]
Trainwreck – Funny Woman; Funny Movie!
Amy is a hardworking, hard drinking, hard playing woman. If she wasn’t a woman, she could be any of a thousand guys we’ve seen before in movies and on TV – that’s what makes Trainwreck so much fun. Written by and starring Amy Schumer, and directed by Judd Apatow, Trainwreck carries the raunch-with-heart stamp that […]
Mr. Holmes: Life and Emotion vs. Facts and Truth!
Sherlock Holmes is one of the most enduring characters in all of fiction. His ability to solve every problem (save for one, according to the Holmes canon) via a combination of knowledge and observation, and the logical extrapolations thereof, plus his acerbic no nonsense attitude make him far more intriguing than most fallible fictional characters […]
Friends, Minions, Henchmen!
The most lovable henchmen to hit the big screen are back. This time, we get to learn their story before they serve their “Despicable” master, Gru.
Minions: The Bubbly Bald Yellow Guys Stumble In Their First Movie!
The good news is that Minions will probably attract Toy Story like numbers at the box office this weekend. The bad news is that it’s nowhere near as good as the Despicable Me movies. Thanks to a few terrific movies, though, it’s not bad.