Over the years, director Spike Lee has given us a varied and fascinating collection of films that include titles like Do the Right Thing (1989), Malcolm X (1992), He Got Game (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), The 25th Hour (2002),…
It’s been only months since we last saw a drama based around the world of writer A.A. Milne and his honey-guzzling bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. The latest version, Christopher Robin, takes a decidedly fictionalized approach, delving into the literature for inspiration and…
Now six movies into this action franchise, actor Tom Cruise appears to show no signs of slowing down. Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the latest chapter and one that offers the performer the opportunity to hang from a helicopter in…
The latest from director Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, To Die For, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, Milk) is a biopic about noted artist John Callahan. This heavy drinker suffered a tragic accident in the early 70s while bar hopping with…
The second of three sequels arriving this week at theaters is Unfriended: Dark Web, a follow-up to a 2014 horror picture that honestly, I had forgotten that I had actually seen and reviewed. As one might have guessed, that film…
To be frank, I wasn’t a fan of the 2014 update of The Equalizer, at least not in the way it was intended. This reviewer found it to be bloodthirsty, with the central character killing his foes in an almost…
The idea of a film being able to trigger any of our other senses is fundamentally absurd, and yet there are countless moments in cinema when we really can almost touch, taste, and smell what’s happening on-screen. Few films, however,…
It’s unfortunate that even when an original movie arrives in theaters, its inspirations are so blatant that it hardly feels like anything new or original. Such is the case with Skyscraper, a summer film that purposefully attempts to fuse disaster…
Yep, this week I’m going to be Mr. Grumpy about the latest chapter in the Marvel Universe, Ant-Man and the Wasp. The movie certainly provides all the comic book movie story beats and action you’d expect, but the material isn’t…
Sicario is a tough act to follow. The 2015 production was one of my favorite films of that year, detailing an ugly, gray, unflinching and unflattering portrait of US operatives going above and beyond the law in order to cause…