The Meg is story of a super ginormous shark, and the one man who can help stop it—Jonas (Jason Statham). Five years ago, working as a rescue diver, Jonas had what he believed to be an encounter with a sea beast while attempting to save crewmembers from a nuclear sub at the lowest depth he […]
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Christoper Robin Is Charming, Thoughtful and Delightful!
Disney’s Christopher Robin is an unexpectedly delightful film that reminds us all that family means more than anything else – and that old friends are to be valued and heeded.
Christopher Robin: A Family Treat as Sweet as Hunny
Christopher Robin is the story of a playful dreamer who has grown old and forgotten his craft. When he was a boy, Christopher Robin (Ewan MacGregor) spent his days in the Hundred Acre Woods, going on adventures with his friends. There was Winnie the Pooh (Jim Cummings), a silly old bear with a big heart […]
Mission: Impossible Might Make You Fall Out of Your Chair, After Sitting on its Edge – A 4DX Review
Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the continuing story of Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) whom, along with his team, are the people you call when the world needs saving. In their 6th outing, the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) have found themselves facing a dilemma regarding missing plutonium that is likely to be used for nuclear weapons. […]
Mission: Impossible – Fallout Is This Summer’s Best Action Movie!
Mission: Impossible – Fallout is unique in several ways: it’s the first time a writer-director has done two consecutive IMF missions; it’s the first time an entry in the series is a direct sequel to the previous one; it’s the first entry in which its star suffered an injury severe enough for the film to […]
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies So We Don’t Have To!
Buzz for Teen Titans Go! To the Movies was that it was a clever superhero satire wrapped in the guise of a kids’ cartoon. That is not the case.
Puzzle Has Several Good Pieces, But Can’t Fit Them All Together
Puzzle is the story of Agnes (Kelly Macdonald), a stay-at-home mom who has led a mundane life. She’s married to Louie (David Denman) whom she met young. Louie has good qualities—he’s loyal and devoted—but he suppresses Agnes actively and passively, either announcing family-impacting decisions without her input, or glaring across the dinner table with eyes […]
The Equalizer 2: Reliably Calm; Reliably Deadly!
Robert McCall, the OCD ex-CIA operative with the imperturbable Zen calm, is back. Once again played by Denzel Washington and directed by Antoine Fuqua, The Equalizer 2 is pretty much the sequel we’ve been expecting – McCall is now stepping in for those who seemingly can’t be helped and, exacting revenge for the death of […]
Skyscraper – Die Hard in The Towering Inferno It’s Not
In Skyscraper, a man has to save his family from the world’s tallest building after a group of mercenaries set it ablaze. It can’t decide if it wants to be goofy summer fun or an all-out disaster flick. The only real survivors of Skyscraper are Dwayne Johnson and Neve Campbell.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Is No Vacation!
Just through its playful riffing on famous monsters and legends, the first two entries in the Hotel Transylvania franchise provided some seriously goofy summer fun. The trick was finding a core of great characters and some complementary secondary characters that could hold the screen in support. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation spends so much time […]
Sorry to Bother You: Unapologetically Poignant
Sorry to Bother You is the story of Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfeld). Green knows three things: he’s broke, he’s in love with Detroit (Tessa Thompson), and he desperately wants the means to provide for her. Green falls into a job as a telemarketer, where he struggles at first, but then a mentor-like figure (Danny Glover) […]