Jailhouse to Milhouse (2024)
I had a minor resistance walking into Buddy [...]
Tag: two and a half
Ghostbusters (2016)
Well . . . at the very least you can say it’s better than Ghostbusters 2. Amid all the gnashing and biting over this movie in the past two years, I have tried to remain mum about it. The movie is unnecessary, for sure, but in the end it isn’t the disaster that the naysayers […]
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 […]
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
10 Cloverfield Lane is alternately fascinating and frustrating at the same time. It is fascinating in the moment but frustrating in that it takes so long to get where it’s going that it arrives at an ending that should have been the beginning of the second act. That’s doesn’t make the movie bad exactly, it […]
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
In show business timing is everything, so when you take too long to follow-up on your success, you’re setting yourself up for weak soup. This has been the case for Sin City, Basic Instinct, Wall Street, Indiana Jones, TRON and, I’ll wager, the upcoming My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. It is never a good […]
How to Be Single (2016)
There will come a moment, soon I hope, that Dakota Johnson will find her path to greatness. As a performer, there is something in her that her contemporaries seem to lack, an understated intelligence, a manner in which you can tell there’s a real person there. When someone talks to her on screen you can […]
The Danish Girl (2015)
The timing for a movie like The Danish Girl could not be more perfect. Here is the true story of Einar Wegener, the celebrated Danish artist who became the first recorded case of sex reassignment surgery in history coming out right as publicity about Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner, and the critically acclaimed show “Transparent” […]
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015)
It’s been quite a month. First I had the pleasure of seeing Jaws in the theater, then Sharknado 2 with the “Rifftrax Live!” treatment. Add to that Ant-Man, the Minions and finally seeing the new Star Wars trailer in a theater and you might say I’ve had a July to remember. Now it comes to […]
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 […]
