Movie Reviews

With a few unique exceptions, the filmography of writer/director Guy Ritchie primarily consists of stories about British people taking on The Man with...

To adapt a quote about pirate movies before and after the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise’s success — “dead genres tell no tales.” While your goo...

In the never-ending age of huge blockbuster franchises based on existing properties — looking at you Disney and Warner Bros. — there is something so r...

A century after the fact, World War I is finally getting the attention it deserves as a horrific yet important event in human history on equal footing...

As we learned thousands of years ago with the myth of Prometheus, technology can be both a gift and a curse. Regardless of how old you are, dear reade...

When it comes to suspense, mystery or thrills, mood and tone are everything. If the characters on screen aren’t surrounded on all sides by deep encroa...

Have you ever had a friend in your life for many years, and you might see each other or talk on the phone once a week and everything was grand? But th...

Following in the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Columbo before him, Benoit Blanc is likely to go down as one of the most famous fict...

Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood. And the Oscars love movies about making movies. It’s no surprise that more recent films like “The Artist” from...

Who keeps letting this guy get away with this? After the likes of “Aliens” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” redefining what sci-fi sequels can be, and...

This has been the year of “Pinocchio” adaptations, for better or for worse. The first 2022 adaptation of the classic 1883 book by Carlo Collodi was “P...

Whether for good or for bad, the world’s most successful filmmakers seem to end up making movies about themselves in one way or another. In fact, abou...

There’s nothing quite like a road trip movie. Two characters driving or hitching from one place to the next, no real plot or narrative beyond what the...

An excessive fear of hospitals is called “nosocomephobia,” and about 3% of the population suffers from this condition. Meanwhile, some studies report ...

The world did not deserve the blessing that was Chadwick Boseman, the beloved and acclaimed actor who died in 2020 after a quiet four-year battle with...

There’s high-brow cinema, there’s Oscar bait movies and then there’s musician biopics. In the Golden Age of Hollywood, the occasional movie about a fa...

If all else fails, play the classics. So when it comes to romantic comedies, if you can’t get Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn or Tom Hanks and Meg Ry...

As if the man known as The Rock didn’t already look like, present himself as and have the name of a superhero, Dwayne Johnson has finally seen his nea...