When the elderly, terminally ill Damian seeks to prolong his life by having his mind transferred into a healthy young body, things don’t quite go as expected. For one thing, the healthy young body he now inhabits may have been given to him in a lab, but it wasn’t necessarily grown there…
Category: Movie Reviews
The Gallows – Paint-By-Numbers Horror Non-Thriller!
In 1993, a high school production of a play called The Gallows failed to finish its premiere performance when the male lead was accidentally hanged on the stage gallows. Now, the same high school is about to try to perform the play again. Recipe for disaster? Damn skippy!
The Overnight: Their Kid’s Friends’ Parents!
From personal experience, I see that when someone gets married and/or has kids, they wind up gaining a whole new set of friends – people that they might otherwise have never met, or even liked. When Alex and Emily, a thirtysomething couple with a pre-school aged son, RJ, move from Seattle to Los, RJ makes […]
Magic Mike XXL: Magic Mike Med. More Like!
2012’s Magic Mike was a left field smash loosely based on Channing Tatum’s experiences as a ‘male entertainer.’ It was smart, witty and filled with intriguing characters – not to mention some amazing dancing. Magic Mike XXL has all of the above except for the smart and the witty. The guys are still kinda fun, […]
Terminator Genisys – Close But No T-800!
After the abysmal Terminator 3 and Terminator Salvation, I had virtually no expectations going into Terminator Genisys – it could hardly have been worse than those two movies, right? Well, right – but not by nearly enough to warrant a $170 million budget. Even with Arnold back and some great performances ( by Emilia Clarke […]
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl – Day 1 of Doomed Friendship!
As good a movie as The Fault in Our Stars was, it was still a movie in which dying was gauzy and romantic and the leads fell in love and went to Amsterdam. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is almost the exact opposite of that.
Max Is Great; His Movie… Not So Much!
Max is the tale of a dog who suffers PTSD following the death of his human partner in Afghanistan. When he is unable to work with anyone else, he is scheduled to be put down – until he shows an unexpected connection to his late partner’s little brother. This boy and his dog flick suffers […]
Inside Out Is Pixar at Its Best!
After commercial hits like Cars, Cars 2, and Monsters University – which did not yield unwavering critical acclaim – it is wonderful to note that Inside Out is a multi-layered, exquisitely rendered film that ranks right up there with WALL-E and UP. The idea for Inside Out is that we are looking at a year […]
Jurassic World Has All the DNA of a Summer Hit!
Jurassic World is as solid a summer blockbuster as you could ask for – it’s smart (but not too smart), flashy (maybe a hair too flashy) and filled with great visual effects that never (quite) overwhelm its basically decent heart. It has an old-fashioned hero, kids in peril, a heroine who goes from stick in […]
Spy: Bond… Melissa Bond!
Melissa McCarthy has shown she can play a character (Saint Vincent, everyone!), which is why Spy is so much fun. In Susan Cooper, CIA super analyst she’s found a character – and a potential franchise – that she can really sink her teeth into. Also, for a spoof to work it must also succeed in […]
Love & Mercy: Brian Wilson – To Hell and Back!
Brian Wilson is a genius. The scope and quality of the music he’s composed over his lifetime is testament to that. For a long time, he was a tortured genius. Love & Mercy is Brian Wilson’s story and, unlike a lot of biopics, it doesn’t gloss over anything – Wilson has described it as ‘factual’ […]