Some movies are so bizarre, you’d never believe them, were it not for the claims they were “Based on a True Story.” Here’s the premise of Spike Lee’s BlackkKlansman (yes, the spelling is intentional): In 1972, Ron Stallworth was the first ever black cop hired by the Colorado Springs police force. Stallworth (played by John […]
THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME New Movie Review
I felt a steady, unceasing, sinking feeling in my stomach from start to finish of The Spy Who Dumped Me, the new action/comedy starring Mila Kunis and Katie McKinnon. During the first half, it’s clear the jokes aren’t landing, the two leads have little chemistry, and the whole thing plays like every other predictable, forgettable […]
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT New Movie Review
Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, taking on his greatest mission… making audiences forget that The Mummy happened a year ago. Well, mission accomplished. While Mission: Impossible – Fallout left me both giddy and incredulous, I had a great time watching Hunt and his remaining IMF team take on a series of villains with ties […]
MAMMA MIA!: HERE WE GO AGAIN New Movie Review
For this casual, quasi-embarrassed ABBA fan, the 2008 movie musical Mamma Mia! was a guilty pleasure. It was fun to watch glamorous movie stars in a modern day musical, running around an exotic island, singing ABBA tunes and having a lot of fun. This sequel that nobody asked for is strictly for ABBA apologists and […]
WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? New Movie Review
I remember once, when I was a boy, sitting with my Grandma as she flipped the dial and channel surfed her way into Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. It was a warm afternoon in her Florida condo and she had a tendency to suck me into watching whatever program she settled on (in fact, this was how I […]
SICARIO: DAY OF SOLDADO New Movie Review
It didn’t seem like we needed a sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s 2015 Sicario, in which Emily Blunt’s FBI agent takes on Mexican cartels alongside federal agents (played by Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin) who seem every bit as shady as the drug lords they were taking down. We especially didn’t need a sequel in […]
JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM New Movie Review
One of the key elements missing from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the audience’s vicarious exploration of a fantastic theme park. The unbeatable 1993 original and 2015’s Jurassic World offered a sense of awe, not only towards reanimated dinosaurs, but also in its depiction of a lavish, fascinating science lab and family-friendly ride that shows […]
SUPERFLY New Movie Review
This remake of the 1970s blaxploitation classic is neither super nor fly Two Stars Rated R / 116 Min. Trevor Jackson takes on the role of Priest, a slick drug dealer in Atlanta, Georgia with plans to step away after “one last, big score.” His best friend Eddie, played by Jason Mitchell, doesn’t believe Priest […]
HEREDITARY New Movie Review
‘Hereditary’ Inherits Too Much Stick with the Maui Film Festival if you want something fresh Toni Collette stars as Annie, an artist and mother who is introduced attending her mother’s funeral. Annie has an outgoing, teenaged stoner son (played by a very good Alex Wolff), a younger, introverted, socially awkward daughter (played by a mesmerizing […]
UPGRADE New Movie Review
‘Upgrade’ is Undone The mindless violence feels like watching your roommate play ‘Call of Duty’ Logan Marshall-Green stars in Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade, playing Grey, a quadriplegic who is given the opportunity to walk again. Not only is the protagonist granted mobility, but the microchip implanted in his spine – named STEM – gives him amazing […]
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY New Movie Review
Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story had more obstacles to avoid than the Millennium Falcon flying through an asteroid field. Here is the inevitable Han Solo prequel adventure, sans Harrison Ford, with promising newcomer Alden Ehrenreich (the scene stealer of Hail Caesar!) taking over the role of the “scruffy lookin’ nerf herder,” scoundrel-pilot. In […]
DEADPOOL 2 New Movie Review
The opening credits of Deadpool 2, which come late into the film, are accompanied by imagery out of a James Bond opening and set to a Celine Dion song. The new Dion tune, “Ashes,” is really good and sincere, which is what makes the sequence even funnier. Despite a new director (the talented David Leitch […]
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 […]
TULLY New Movie Review
The early scenes of Jason Reitman’s Tully are so convincing that they will create anxiety for the new parents in the audience. We observe Marlo (played by Charlize Theron) struggling to raise her troubled son, give attention to her older daughter, survive the final months of her third pregnancy and please Drew, her barely-there husband […]
GO FOR BROKE New Movie Review
The ever-growing definition of a “comic book movie” expands in a deeply meaningful way with the creation of Go For Broke. Directed by Alexander Bocchieri (a helmer of short films, making his feature length debut) and written/produced by Stacey Hayashi, this made-in-Hawai‘i, World War II drama depicts the lives of young Japanese-American men living in […]
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR New Movie Review
Disney/Marvel is releasing their Avengers: Infinity War on the 10th anniversary of their lavish, mammoth successful experiment, the creation of the Marvel Comic Universe. It began a decade ago with the still-wonderful Iron Man and now concludes with this new phase. While the films themselves are hit and miss, the overall goal of the MCU […]
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