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 to nuclear warheads, hidden lairs, and dozens of … [Read more...] about MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT New Movie Review
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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 invest in them. Other times, we feed sucker money to a … [Read more...] about Summer Movie Preview 2018
AMERICAN MADE New Movie Review
The ability to board your own aircraft, operate it with the ease of an automobile and go wherever you want, whenever you want and over vast fields and towns below, is just so cool. It's one thing to be a passenger who enjoys looking out the window and actually enjoys air travel (especially now, when going to airport is a decathlon in discomfort). It's another thing entirely to … [Read more...] about AMERICAN MADE New Movie Review
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 said no to Michael Bay's Transformers: The Last … [Read more...] about Your MauiTime 2017 Summer Movie Wrap-Up
THE MUMMY New Movie Review
Tom Cruise is the king of summer movies. Just look at Risky Business, Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Far & Away, The Firm, Minority Report, Collateral, War of the Worlds, Tropic Thunder and Mission Impossible 1-5 if you don't believe me. His image as an action hero movie star has overshadowed what a great, risk-taking actor he can be. I've been a lifelong fan and had movie … [Read more...] about THE MUMMY New Movie Review