They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
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The Jungle Book (2016)
It shouldn’t surprise anyone when Disney shamelessly toots its own horn. The legacy of this paragon of family entertainment has such a rich history and such of wealth of classics to its name that you sort of aren’t surprised to find it congratulating itself. That may come from the fact that recently they’ve been kind […]
Hardcore Henry (2016)
Oh, mother of mercy, let’s all pray that this does not become a trend. I guess it would be prudent to start this review by answering the question that is swimming around in your head right now: Is the world’s first first-person POV action picture too nauseating to sit through? Well, I can’t speak for […]
Zootopia (2016)
The greatest joy of going to the movies, for me, is the joy of discovering something that the filmmakers have worked to turn into something special. Week after week, I attend the Hollywood product that regurgitates shopworn plots and tired characters that aren’t much deeper than your average rain puddle. Yet, every once in a […]
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is 500 pounds of movie heaped on a 10 pound story. This is a clunky, misguided, unhappy and ultimately exhausting experience that runs on for 2 hours and 33 minutes wherein it repeats it’s themes over and over and over with overcooked imagery that must have cost a million […]
Ant-Man (2015)
Based on the number of ants present in this movie, I suppose we can thank our lucky stars he wasn’t called Roach-Man. Within the vast population of Marvel characters, Ant-Man is one of the goofiest of superheroes, and seemingly the narrowest in terms of functionality. The challenge in the new Ant-Man movie is to effectively […]
Terminator: Genisys (2015)
As the plot for Terminator: Genisys begins to reveals it’s hand – which it does at least a dozen times in 125 minutes – the uneasy feeling sinks in that the overriding message of this fourth Terminator sequel is that we need to fear the technology that we’re putting in motion. That’s nothing new, this […]
Faith of Our Fathers – a.k.a. To the Wall (2015)
I have no objection to the output of PureFlix Entertainment. Christian movie goers should have their films on the big screen just as much as fans of horror or comedy or action pictures. The writers and directors of the films put out by PureFlix have set out on a mission, to give a forgotten audience […]
Jurassic World (2015)
The message from Jurassic World is crystal clear: Man is an idiot. That’s right, man is a thoughtless creature more dangerous than any dinosaur; a creature led by hubris and the pursuit of the all-mighty dollar. That, at least, is what you take with you when the movie is over. Perhaps this is a commentary […]
