Movie Reviews

Nostalgia is a powerful tool for filmmakers these days. The onslaught of legacy sequels — mostly of hit movies from the 1980s that haven’t aged as wel...

It’s always a gamble going to the movie theater whether or not you’ll be in an auditorium where everyone is (for the most part) quiet and respectful. ...

It’s rare — nearly impossible — for a director’s debut feature film to be great. It usually takes a few years and a couple of lukewarm receptions befo...

The days are hot and long, school is just about out and everyone is spending much more time outdoors. But even with all of that, there will be some ra...

It’s been 45 years since the first “Mad Max” was released, and writer/director George Miller and his team have yet to run out of creativity. The post-...

It’s a great time to be a Beatles fan with a subscription to Disney+. The release of Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” documentary series in 202...

One of the scariest scenes in a non-horror movie begins with Charlton Heston running through a field on what he believes is an alien planet with a gro...

Just about every year a Hollywood movie will come out that’s all about how much the movie business loves itself. Some of the greatest films of all tim...

If last week’s review of “Civil War” didn’t sound like the war movie for you, then hopefully this week’s look at “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfar...

The genre “war movie” can cover quite a wide berth of films that can be just about everything. There’s the obvious “Saving Private Ryan” and “All Quie...

The best decision British actor Dev Patel ever made came in 2010 after the disastrous “The Last Airbender” adaptation by M. Night Shyamalan, in which ...

There’s something about watching two humongous monsters duking it out like a couple of MMA fighters that pleases our primal lizard brains like nothing...

I thought we were done with the 1980s nostalgia trend and Hollywood had moved on to milking the ’90s for all their worth. Well, apparently not, becaus...

Who cried at the end of “Old Yeller”? I’m guessing it’s just about everyone reading this. There’s something about dogs that makes us overly emotional,...

Well, the 96th Academy Awards were this past Sunday, and beyond “Oppenheimer” sweeping up as everyone expected, the main pleasant surprise — and one n...

Too many movie studios attempt to set up a potential series before a first film has any chance of making enough money or goodwill from fans to warrant...

There are only 10 days until the 96th Academy Awards, and there are plenty of nominated movies that either didn’t play at a local theater or only play...

And we thought “Venom” and “Morbius” were bad. To be fair, they are bad, but not like this — not like “Madame Web.” Since the original “Spider-Man” tr...