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 and lean. In the … [Read more...] about IT New Movie Review
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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 in Black," Walter seeks to destroy the world by knocking … [Read more...] about THE DARK TOWER 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 SHINING Old Movie Review
The horror of a broken mind is the central concept of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, his great 1980 horror masterpiece adapted from Stephen King's novel. Jack Nicholson stars as Jack Torrance, a recovering alcoholic and struggling writer who is hired to be the caretaker of the massive Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Accompanied by his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son, Danny … [Read more...] about THE SHINING Old Movie Review