Movie Review: ‘Gemini Man,’ Starring Will Smith
Will Smith’s new flick ‘Gemini Man’ has everything needed for an effective action movie; a believable leading man, a great director, a formulaic plot, and big fight scenes. The only problem is ‘Gemini Man’ just isn’t very good. Director Ang Lee, known for his much superior ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ relies on new movie technology and hopes […]
Movie Review: DOWNTON ABBEY (2019)
Review by Josie Grillas Downton Abbey is a sumptuous period film that is an homage to the fans and the television series. From the first stirring chords of its iconic theme song, viewers are immediately drawn back into the lives of the Crawley family and their servants. The film picks up about a year and a […]
Movie Review: AD ASTRA Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga
Space movies enthrall me. Whether they’re based on science or entirely science-fiction, a good space film can really hit the right chords with me, and we’ve had an influx of really good ones in the past several years. Gravity, Interstellar, and The Martian quickly come to mind when I think about the quiet isolation and […]
Movie Review: 3 From Hell, Starring; Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Richard Brake
First off, “3 From Hell,” is a very difficult movie to enjoy. Not because it’s not well made, but because it’s just that devious. Director Rob Zombie was thought to have left the Firefly Family for dead in “The Devil’s Rejects,” but alas the trio managed to survive the onslaught of bullets at the end […]
Movie Review: IT CHAPTER 2 Starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader
The highly anticipated follow-up to Andy Muschietti’s remake of Stephen King’s haunting tale of a clown that feasts on children (both literally and figuratively,) It: Chapter 2 hits theatres today. While the original 90’s miniseries terrified a generation and amplified coulrophobia (the irrational fear of clowns,) still to this day, as well as a providing […]
Movie Review: ‘Angel Has Fallen’ Starring Gerard Butler, Piper Perabo, Morgan Freeman
Remember when you were a kid and you’d play out various fantasy scenarios of you saving the world? Nevermind the various plot holes or implausible events that occurred, you were a hero, dammit, and nothing could stop you from getting that ticker-tape parade. If you can relate to that paragraph and cringe at the very […]
Movie Review: ’47 Meters Down: Uncaged’
It seems that at least once or twice a year, the distribution of a shark movie with a theatrical run meets the needs of the masses to see their share of carnage (tiding them over until the next film of course,) and this year’s installment meant to fulfill that need was Johannes Roberts’ “47 Meters […]
Movie Review: ‘Good Boys’ Starring Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, Brady Noon
Beanbag boys for life! That’s something you’re going to hear quite a few times when seeing the new R-rated tween comedy Good Boys. The film holds no punches when it throws our sixth-grade trio of Max (Jacob Tremblay), Lucas (Keith L. Williams) and Thor (Brady Noon) through a couple of days of chaos. The film […]
Movie Review: ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ Starring Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a classic series of books penned by Alvin Schwartz in the 1980’s that seems everybody my age has read except me. Go figure. Everyone that I know who’s read them is excited for director André Øvredal’s adaptation of it to the big screen. But everyone that I […]