Category: Movie

  • I Feel Pretty, Super Troopers 2, Lean on Pete

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    This week brings three very different films with Amy Schumer’s “I Feel Pretty,” Broken Lizard’s “Super Troopers 2” and A24’s “Lean on Pete.” I can only in good conscience recommend one of them. Amy Schumer’s “I Feel Pretty” features some mega comedy talent, but a premise that makes me slightly ill. To message out that…

  • Rampage, Borg vs McEnRoe

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      This week brings two very different stories fueled by rage, “Rampage” and “Borg vs McEnroe.” Even Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson couldn’t save “Rampage” from itself. Based on the 1986 video game, it stars Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jake Lacy, Joe Manganiello, Will Yun Lee, and a giant CG albino…

  • A Quiet Place, Blockers

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      This week brings two very different but very good films! John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place” and the comedy known as “Blockers.” Krasinksi continues to improve as a director with each film he makes. His horror debut “A Quiet Place” is one of the few horror films of the past few years I’ve seen willingly.…

  • Ready Player One, Pacific Rim Uprising, The Death of Stalin

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    This week brings two films burdened by heavy expectations, and one pleasant surprise. Spielberg’s titan, “Ready Player One” hits screens, I finally check out “Pacific Rim Uprising”, and review the pretty brilliant but scary “The Death of Stalin.”This review is spoiler free! “Ready Player One” is adapted from the novel by Ernest Cline, and it…

  • Midnight Sun, Journey’s End

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    This week brings the teen doomed romance “Midnight Sun” and the WWI British film, “Journey’s End”. “Midnight Sun” is the doomed teen romance movie about a girl who can’t be exposed to the sun. Much to my chagrin it was not a vampire film… It stars Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Rob Riggle. ​On the…

  • Tomb Raider, Love Simon

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    This week brings the reboot of the video game adaptation franchise, “Tomb Raider”, and the gay teen romance, “Love, Simon.” It’s tough to imagine anyone but Angelina Jolie playing Lara Croft, but Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander brings her own compact flair to the role. While the film is nothing to write home about, it’s…

  • A Wrinkle in Time, Thoroughbreds

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    This week brings Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time”, and Cory Finley’s murderous teen thriller “Thoroughbreds.” ​The source material for “A Wrinkle in Time” does not scream “make me into a film!” but if there was anyone who could potentially have done it, it was Ava DuVernay. While there are admirable…

  • Red Sparrow, Nostalgia

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    Jennifer Lawrence (like… almost ALL of Jennifer Lawrence) is back on the big screen this week in the spy film “Red Sparrow.” Also way too many famous people waste my time in the limited release “Nostalgia.” It’s easy to compare “Red Sparrow” to Charlize Theron’s “Atomic Blonde” (which I loved). In part because there frankly…

  • Annihilation, Every Day

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    To say “Annihilation” is an adaptation is a loose definition of the word “adaptation.” The film is very much it’s own thing, which made it hard as a book reader to disconnect. “Annihilation” stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, and Oscar Isaac. ​Meanwhile “Every Day” is about as faithful as a…

  • Fifty Shades Freed

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      ​The “Fifty Shades” franchise continues to break records with me, and not in a good way.  This is the third and hopefully final of these trash heaps. I don’t understand the appeal of these films, but this one in particular seems the least sexy of them all. Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson return, as…