Category: Review

  • 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…

  • Black Panther, Early Man

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    Ryan Coogler kicks ass and takes names with his Marvel directorial debut. Chadwick Boseman returns as T’Challa, and is joined by Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Forest Whitaker, and Angela Basset. Oh yeah and I guess Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis are there too… Wakanda Forever!…

  • 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…

  • The Commuter

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      ​This week’s review is “Taken”… on a train. Aka “The Commuter” Okay it’s a little more complex than just “Taken” on a train, but still, this Liam Neeson action film feels like a rip off. Even with the usually decent cast of Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Sam Neill, and Elizabeth McGovern,…

  • Call Me By Your Name

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      In which you never look at a peach the same way again…  ​Fresh off their Oscar nominations, I fianlly get to talk about “Call Me By Your Name.” I’d been hearing about this film for ages, which probably set my expectations a little bit too high, but all in all the film was very…