Law enforcer Luke Hobbs (played by Dwayne Johnson) and career criminal Deckard Shaw (played by Jason Statham), supporting characters in the Fast & Furious franchise, now have their very own spinoff. What was once fast and furious is now long and tedious. If you’ve ever wondered what one of these movies would be like without Vin Diesel and Ludacris, now you know. A slickly … [Read more...] about ‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw’ New Movie Review: More like ‘Long & Tedious’
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Summer Movie Preview 2018
Let's talk box office. The amount of money a movie makes doesn't always mean the film is good (case in point, the wretched $300 million-grossing Suicide Squad). Summer movies tend to draw more attention to their typically massive opening weekend gross than their quality. On occasion, the movies are as good as the money we invest in them. Other times, we feed sucker money to a … [Read more...] about Summer Movie Preview 2018
RAMPAGE New Movie Review
Early into Peter Berg's still-fantastic 2003 action/comedy The Rundown, Dwayne Johnson walks into a bar (stop me if you've heard this one) and bumps into Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ah-Nuld taps Johnson on the shoulder, says, "Have fun in there" and literally walks out of Johnson's movie. The moment is a symbolic gesture on Schwarzenegger's part, as he was literally passing the … [Read more...] about RAMPAGE New Movie Review
MauiTime Summer Movie Preview 2017
A critic recently stated that movie theaters are overloaded with examples of "Corporate Cinema" and little else. There's truth to that, especially in the thrill-seeking summer movie season. Between now and September, I'm not looking forward to catching the dueling look-how-hip-and-ultra-violent-we-are Baby Driver and Atomic Blonde. Nor the desperate, dueling Girls Gone Wild … [Read more...] about MauiTime Summer Movie Preview 2017
THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS New Movie Review
I found myself seeing the latest sequel to The Fast and the Furious on Easter Sunday, sitting next to Shea, my high school buddy. Shea loves to remind me that I took him to an early preview screening of the first movie in this series back in 2001. We were both living in Colorado at the time and attended a screening arranged by the studio meant to gauge the film's box office … [Read more...] about THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS New Movie Review