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Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was hated or disliked by pretty much everyone, but since when does that stop the sequel train? Two years later, the four green bros are back together to...
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Review – Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
The Lonely Island comedy/music group, best known for Andy Samberg and Everything is Awesome, star in this mockumentary chronicling the ups and (especially) downs of living legend, dope singer/rapper,...
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Review – Warcraft
No good film adaptation of a video game has ever been made – at least none of them have managed a “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on the massively popular franchise, Warcraft, the third...
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Review – The Conjuring 2
Director James Wan is back with another “true” tale from the case files of the infamous paranormal investigating duo, Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Ver Farmiga). This time we head to...
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Review – Central Intelligence
“Saving the world takes a little Hart and a big Johnson.” I don’t care if Kevin Hart and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson were cast solely so that the marketing team could use that genius tagline for this...
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Review – Finding Dory
In my opinion, Pixar has only made one bad film – The Good Dinosaur (and even that one I gave three hats to). The rest of their catalog ranges from just above average to priceless gems, and 2003’s...
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When Steven Spielberg makes a new movie you pay attention. When that movie is also an adaptation of one of beloved author Roald Dahl’s classic stories, even more so. Does The Big Friendly Giant live up...
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Contest – Passes to see Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman: The Killing Joke reunites the stars of Batman: The Animated Series with Bruce Timm returning as executive producer, and actors Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill reprising their memorable roles as...
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Review – Jason Bourne
After the Jeremy Renner powered offshoot a few years ago, director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon are back for another installment in the action packed Bourne franchise. Ten years after the...
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Review – Suicide Squad
You’re probably aware that DC is launching a film universe built around their most famous group of superheroes – The Justice League. We’ll see how that movie does next year, but for now we’re...
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Review – War Dogs
In the grand tradition of The Wolf of Wall Street and Pain and Gain, War Dogs is the latest stranger than fiction tale of morally questionable behavior wrapped in the silky sheets of dark comedy. The...
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Review – Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
Even if you’re not a gamer, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve heard the name “Final Fantasy” before. Counting all the various spinoffs, compilations, etc. there have been over one hundred Final...
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Review – A Tale of Love and Darkness
Natalie Portman makes her directorial debut in this adaptation of the best seller by Amos Oz. She also wrote and stars. If you think the name of this movie sounds like the title of a poem, you’d be...
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Review – Blair Witch
In 1999 The Blair Witch Project terrified audiences who were half convinced that what they were seeing was real. Popularizing the relatively new concept of “found footage,” it made a mark in cinema...
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Review – Snowden
Like most Americans, I’ve heard the name Edward Snowden. I even had an inkling of who he was – a whistleblower from the CIA, or NSA, or some such secret government agency. He revealed secrets about...
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Review – Queen of Katwe
Based on the true story of the unlikely chess champion from the slums of Uganda, Phiona Mutesi, Queen of Katwe stars newcomer Madina Nalwanga and features celebrated actors David Oyelowo and Lupita...
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Review – Command and Control
From the director of Food Inc. and Merchants of Doubt comes yet another documentary that will make you question humanity’s survival. In 1980, at a military base in Damascus, Arkansas, a missile...
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Review – Storks
Storks used to deliver human babies. What a pain. Good thing an enterprising stork (Kelsey Grammer) revamped the company to deliver packages for Amazon CornerStore.com. Things are going great until...
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Review – Masterminds
Do you remember Encyclopedia Brown’s Book of Strange but True Crimes? Well, the 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery could be taken straight out of one of those books, especially if this movie adaptation is to...
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Review – The Girl on the Train
In the category of “If you liked Gone Girl, try this,” The Girl on the Train is a female powered thriller with a main character who could be the hero, the villain, or both. Rachel (the immensely...
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