Before we talk about Logan let’s take a moment to thank our friend Deadpool. Once the Merc with a Mouth opened to a $130 million dollar weekend [only to go onto a $780 mill. worldwide] the game changed. R rated…
One of the most influential film critics of all time was a distinguished gentleman named Joe Bob Briggs. He wrote narrative into his reviews about taking Betty Sue to the drive-in and getting into it with her old boyfriend. He…
There just isn’t much funny about The Comedian. Here’s a movie that takes our old friend Robert DeNiro, puts a microphone in his hand and forces him to pretend to be a grizzled, grumpy stand-up comic for large chunks of…
Let’s start with McConaughey fans: Go see this movie. You get a big, thick dose of the maverick actor’s bravado and he’s as entertaining as always. He constantly guzzles Seagram’s and has grown a proper potbelly. He has a semi-distracting…
Sharing movies with my kids is true joy. I’m broken, in some sense, and movies carry more emotional weight than they should. My childhood’s happiest moments occurred in a darkened theater. Vicarious lives lived thanks to Spielberg, Tarantino and Disney.…
This is a weird flick. Judging the cover, Sing should be at least decent. Great cast [McConaughey, Witherspoon, Johansson…], a Christmas opening date and it’s a cartoon about talking animals from the studio that brought you Minions and Despicable Me.…
I would love to pull out the soapbox to scream and complain about Disney and the Ever-Expanding Do-Over. I’ve done it before and I hate, hate, hate to be a broken record. Regardless, I could spend this brief time with…
It doesn’t take long to figure out if you made the right choice. Once the lights dim for Damien Chazelle’s modern day musical we open on a group of Angelinos stuck in traffic on The 105. A song begins which…
There is very little wrong with Manchester by the Sea. It’s about the right length. Every scene rings true. Each performance has some magic in it. And while this may, on the surface, look like a heavy-handed Award Season’s movie…
Some art films present a “slice of life”. An unfiltered look at the world that avoids the tropes of the Hollywood movie. People get up every day, go to work and buy groceries. Very rarely are superheroes or giant robots…