Category: Movie

  • Inferno

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    This week brings one review and one review alone, “Inferno.”I will start by saying I love the book “The Da Vinci Code” when it first came out. I was obsessed with puzzles and mysteries. Did the whole running around Westminster Abby thing reliving where the plot pointed to etc. So when I found out they…

  • Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn for Trolls

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    This film is about the polar opposite of my last interview, but I had a great time chatting with Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn about “Trolls”

  • Keeping Up with the Joneses, Moonlight

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    This week brings up “Keeping Up with the Joneses” and “Moonlight.” “Keeping Up with the Joneses” has a cast that are unquestionably talented, just not in this. Gal Gadot (our new Wonder Woman), Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher, and Zach Galifianakis star in this “comedy.” What was upsetting is it’s directed by Greg Mottola, who has made…

  • The Accountant, Desierto

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    This week brings “The Accountant” and “Desierto” to review. “The Accountant” was nothing spectacular, but nor was it terrible. Which is probably a sadder reflection on the films being pumped out now versus the film itself. There were considerable plot issues and editing issues, at times you’d forget a B and C plot existed.  Ben…

  • The Girl on the Train, The Birth of a Nation, American Honey

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    This week brings three films.  The first was “The Girl on the Train” which I was by far the most excited for. I loved the book, it was a far from perfect book, but certainly a page turner. Unfortunately the translation to screen did not turn out so well. The suspense was stripped out of…

  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Masterminds

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    This week brings the new Tim Burton film “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” and Jared Hess’s “Masterminds”. I haven’t loved Tim Burton’s last handful of films (“Frankenweenie” excluded), and while I enjoyed “Miss Peregrine” more than I have some of his others, it still felt like a student trying to imitate Tim Burton than the…

  • The Magnificent Seven, Queen of Katwe

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    Up this week is the 8 millionth remake of the year, “The Magnificent Seven” starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onfrio and Peter Sarsgaard. It was directed by Antoine Fuqua. So it had potential, but ultimately I didn’t feel it brought much new to the table. More in the audio review.  Alas a slight…

  • Bridget Jones’s Baby

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    This week’s review is “Bridget Jones’s Baby” – the first film, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” is one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. I will watch it any time it’s on TV. The second one was a disaster that I even tried to find and rewatch before this and was thwarted as it appears to have…

  • Sully, Kicks

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    This week is the retelling of the real life story of the “miracle on the Hudson” aka the story of Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger. It’s starring Tom Hanks and directed by Clint Eastwood, and as much as I admire both of them, I have to wonder do we really need a movie of this so…

  • The Light Between Oceans

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    This week was “The Light Between Oceans” starring (current/subject to change) real life couple Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. It’s easy to see how they’d fall in to a romantic entanglement in real life based on these roles. However in spite of their onscreen chemistry I found the film a little too bland and not…