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 […]
LABYRINTH Old Movie Review
Jim Henson’s 1986 musical/fantasy Labyrinth is a cult film in the purest sense. There’s nothing contrived or expected about the Renaissance this film has experienced. Like all great movies that acquire belated devotion after their disastrous initial release, this one began its film life as a crushing failure. Despite being produced by George Lucas, directed […]
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 […]
A QUIET PLACE New Movie Review
The introductory scenes of A Quiet Place allow the audience to enter a world so intriguing that many will find themselves obeying the film’s core rule to remain silent. The film opens on “Day 89” of a world where humankind appears to have either gone missing or become mostly extinct. As a man (played by […]
READY PLAYER ONE New Movie Review
In 2045, Wade Watts (played by Tye Sheridan) escapes from his dreary reality by entering a virtual reality world called The Oasis. While everyone living in Watt’s home of The Stacks (with living quarters of trailers and junk piled high and tight) plays in this digital world, Watts is attempting to uncover a puzzle within […]
PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING New Movie Review
Following the events of Pacific Rim, Guillermo Del Toro’s charmless, bloated 2013 film, the world has been rid of the gigantic Kaiju monsters and the massive Jaeger robots are no longer needed. At least, that’s how it is for a few minutes of Pacific Rim: Uprising, in which John Boyega stars as the son of […]
TOMB RAIDER New Movie Review
Does anyone really want to see Lara Croft’s origin story? Specifically, do we really care about the life of one of the all-time most famous video game characters, before she was super-cool? Think about this for a moment. If you imagine Croft as intelligent, attractive and fierce, wearing shorts and a tank top while scaling […]
THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT New Movie Review
Ten years later, somebody finally made a sequel to the horror hit The Strangers and proved that, once again, some movies absolutely do not need a sequel. Here, a family of four (led by Mad Men star Christina Hendricks and Martin Henderson, the lead in the Ice Cube-led fiasco Torque) go on a road trip […]
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