Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a special kind of terrible, the sort of bad movie you watch with your jaw agape as your brain melts out of your ears. If that sounds painful, just try sitting through this 141-minute endurance test. Taron Egerton returns as Eggsy, the streetwise teen-turned-super-spy who works for Kingsman, […]
MOTHER! New Movie Review
In Darren Aronofsky’s ferocious but fatally chaotic Mother!, Jennifer Lawrence stars as the young wife of a would-be author (played by Javier Bardem) experiencing writer’s block. The arrival of unannounced guests (played by Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer) intrudes upon the quiet of the couple’s country home, which they’re in the process of renovating. A […]
Drew Toonz: There’s a new ‘It’ movie?
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IT New Movie Review
Following decades of being remembered as a massive paperback staple and a well-remembered televised mini-series, Stephen King’s It has finally been made into a proper, R-rated motion picture. Although the setting is now the 1980’s and portions of the novel dealing with the child protagonists as adults has been tossed, this adaptation is faithful, intelligent […]
MauiTime 2017 Fall Movie Preview
The fun thing about movies opening between now and early next year is the wild blend of choices. Yes, the kind of popcorn movies we flock to in the summer time are here: Justice League, Thor: Ragnarok and My Little Pony all seemed destined for blockbuster status. Less so are sequels no one asked for, […]
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND Old Movie Review
When Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, his fourth film and first after Jaws, opened in the fall of 1977, many wondered how it would compare with Star Wars. George Lucas’ first groundbreaking, pop-culture shaping and box office conquering mega-hit had overshadowed most of the year. Could Spielberg, whose giant killer shark movie […]
Your MauiTime 2017 Summer Movie Wrap-Up
A baffling summer at the movies started strong, until the good choices were too widely dispersed over the course of four months. The bad movies were in such abundance, audiences managed to wisely put their foot down and voted with their pocketbook. Instead of saying, “Oh, why not, I saw the other four….,” filmgoers actually […]
LOGAN LUCKY New Movie Review
Steven Soderbergh’s new comedy stars Channing Tatum as Jimmy Logan, a lifelong underachiever who decides to perform a heist during a NASCAR race. Jimmy enlists the aid of unlikely cohorts, including his brother Clyde (Adam Driver), a local bartender and amputee. There’s also the incarcerated Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) and a few other country bumpkins […]
ANNABELLE: CREATION New Movie Review
A happy couple (played by Anthony LaPaglia and Miranda Otto) find their lives forever changed when their daughter, Annabelle, dies a horrible, violent death. Twelve years pass and the late Annabelle’s parents have converted their home into an orphanage. It houses a cluster of girls, including Linda, the youngest (played by Lulu Wilson) and her […]
THE DARK TOWER New Movie Review
A boy named Jake (well played by Tom Taylor) has a tortured home life and is known in school for his troubling behavior. Jake dreams of a place called Mid-World, where a supernatural gunslinger named Roland of Gilead (played by Idris Elba) pursues Walter, a vile magician (played by Matthew McConaughey). Known as “The Man […]
ATOMIC BLONDE New Movie Review
Atomic Blonde stars Charlize Theron as Lorraine, a well-trained spy who kills a lot of bad men in 1989 Berlin. Her latest mission, set around the fall of the Berlin Wall, involves joining up with her sketchy colleague Percival (played by James McAvoy). How tough is Lorraine? After each bad guy tussle, she ends her day in […]
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH Old Movie Review
I loved almost every minute of my high school experience (particularly my senior year) but know I’m in the minority. Most movies about high school aren’t about what really happened but a fantasy of what we wish it were like. On the other hand, there’s Amy Heckerling’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Jennifer Jason Leigh […]
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES New Movie Review
Too many movies released this summer are best described as being almost-good, which is hardly enough to get excited about. On the other hand, while Matt Reeves’ War For the Planet of the Apes overreaches in the final stretch, it comes this-close to being a masterpiece. The third in a trilogy that started with Rupert […]
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING New Movie Review
Spider-Man: Homecoming begins awkwardly, as white collar bureaucrats undermine a group of blue collar workers who are cleaning post-battle superhero rubble. We meet Michael Keaton’s central villain, who takes advantage of the position by stealing alien technology. What follows is “a film by Peter Parker,” showing the young Parker/Spider-Man meeting Tony Stark (played by an […]
BABY DRIVER New Movie Review
Ansel Elgort stars as Baby, a getaway driver who works for a wealthy slimeball (Kevin Spacey). Baby is the best there is, as no cop can catch him and he’s never blown an assignment. His hearing impairment, a “hum in the drum,” makes him reliant on music to keep his rhythm sharp and daily life […]
ALL EYEZ ON ME New Movie Review
I’ve been waiting years for a definitive Tupac Shakur movie. After watching All Eyez on Me, it’s clear I’ll have to keep waiting. Shakur, my pick for the greatest rap artist who ever lived, died at 25. His cadence was fierce and aggressive, while his lyrics were hard hitting but often playful and clever (“And […]
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