The fall movie season isn't unlike the summer run before it. Yet, everything is looking better (and after Godzilla: King of the Monsters, we all deserve better). Although there are more sequels, at least they’re for movies we really want sequels to, like Zombieland, and not the likes of The Angry Birds Movie 2. Some of the offerings are tedious. (Oh, we finally get Frozen 2? … [Read more...] about 2019 Fall Movie Preview: After the summer, we deserve this
Martin Scorsese
SILENCE New Movie Review
For decades, there were two passion projects Martin Scorsese had been striving to make. His long discussed, bucket list films had been Gangs of New York, which he made in 2002, and finally, Silence. Harrowing, intelligent and rewarding overall, Scorsese's Silence is a tough sit but unquestionably one of the filmmaker's greatest films. In the early 1600's, two Portuguese … [Read more...] about SILENCE New Movie Review
Best of the Wurst: The Top 10 films of 2016
After a promising spring, moviegoers endured the lousiest summer movie season in memory. The "big dumb fun" movies didn't deliver but several great, challenging fall dramas and a few sleepers from earlier salvaged the movie year. The great runner-ups that got pushed outside of my Top Ten are A Monster Calls (opening next month), Kubo and the Two Strings, Snowden, The … [Read more...] about Best of the Wurst: The Top 10 films of 2016
Mauitime 2016 Fall Movie Preview
The fall movie season, with its acclaimed film festival favorites and prestige Oscar candidates, is looking like a nice alternative to 2016's Bummer Summer. To misquote a classic Christopher Walken SNL sketch, if the past movie summer was a cowbell, the fall season of cinema is the aspirin. Here's the best of the lot that isn't a sequel, prequel, CGI cartoon, remake, or comic … [Read more...] about Mauitime 2016 Fall Movie Preview
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Special Bonus Movie Review
Jordan Belfort had an innocence, a time in his life when he wasn't corrupt or intoxicated with chemicals or the ultimate high that was his absurdly decadent life. We know this because the establishing scenes of Martin Scorsese's gutsy new film show Belfort, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, on his first day of being a Wall Street trader. Belfort clearly has a desire for the Good … [Read more...] about THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Special Bonus Movie Review