Category: Review

This week’s movies are pretty bad, but at least “The Meg” was enjoyable bad, versus “Christopher Robin” which is…. just nightmarish. “The Meg” is what happens when you give a SyFy channel original movie concept a Chinese budget (and Jason Statham). Objectively I know it is not a good movie, but I still very much…

I saw “The Equalizer 2” (without having seen “The Equalizer”) and it left me with a lot of questions… ​While Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua were an undeniable duo to be reckoned with with “Training Day” it feels like they’ve been desperately trying to recapture that magic since. Denzel, Melissa Leo, and Bill Pullman…

This week brings the umpteenth Tom Cruise as Tom Cruise film… I mean this week brings “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.” It also has Lauren Greenfield’s documentary “Generation Wealth.”Tom Cruise is just a character in and of himself at this point. Thankfully the “Mission Impossible” films are most suited to that persona. He’s joined by Rebecca…

This week brings “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” which I wish didn’t go at all, and another Bay Area film, “Blindspotting.” There is no reason whatsoever to make “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” – yet somehow they convinced Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard, Christine Baranski, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, and…

This week brings the Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson vehicle “Skyscraper” and Bo Burnham’s surprisingly insightful “Eighth Grade.” While The Rock can do no wrong in my book, this isn’t exactly doing right by his audience… While “Skyscraper” is fine, it’s nothing innovative or even particularly daring. ​Meanwhile Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade” was a surprisingly delightful…

The Bay Area is repping hard this week with Marvel’s “Ant-Man and The Wasp” and the brilliantly bizarre “Sorry to Bother You.” In spite of my constant complaints of superhero fatigue you know there was no way I was going to miss “Ant-Man and The Wasp” and I’m delighted to say that it was a…

In a summer jam packed with blockbusters we take a look at two smaller releases, the documentary “Three Identical Strangers” and the semi-autobiographical “Boundaries.” “Three Identical Strangers” is stranger than fiction, it’s about triplets separated at birth. That alone should be enough to see the film but it gets even more absurd. Get thee to…

Dinos. Dinos. Dinos. This week is “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” which many other critics have been hating on pretty hard, but it’s exactly what you’d expect from a “Jurassic World” film (for better or worse). I don’t get the level of animosity directed at the film, it’s not as revelatory as “Jurassic Park” was (but…

This week brings a sequel 14 years in the making, and a comedy based on real events 30+ years in the making. It’s “Incredibles 2” and “Tag” Disney Pixar’s “Incredibles 2” picks up pretty much right where “The Incredibles” left off. I don’t think folks are going to be disappointed by this sequel. Brad Bird…

This week brings the female lead heist film “Ocean’s 8”, the also criminal centric “Hotel Artemis” and the Fred Rogers documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.” “Ocean’s 8″ is a fun romp that you really don’t need to have seen any of the predecessors for. It stars Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling,…