The X-Men series of films seem to be aspiring to ever greater heights as they progress, rewriting history in the creation of cinematic Marvel mythology.  The most recent one re-imagined the Cuban Missile Crisis, while this one explains the assassination of JFK and involves […]

Yes, this is a somewhat different Godzilla than was featured in more than twenty Japanese movies from Toho Studios.  Yet much is the same in terms of the Big Guy’s character (especially in the later films) and even the idea […]

I really wanted to like The Other Woman because so few comedies, or any movies for that matter, establish strong female characters and allow them to be as strong and wild as most male movie characters.  Lately, though, thanks to gross-out […]

Comic book superhero movies aren’t really my thing, and yet I’ve enjoyed several of them lately from Marvel.  This is the second go-round (not counting The Avengers) of Steve Rogers, better known as Captain America (Chris Evans), the World War […]

Just receiving its theatrical release now is a character study / question of morality film based on a true story begun in World War II.  A British engineer (Jeremy Irvine) is among several taken prisoner in Singapore by the Japanese. […]

Each Earth Day Walt Disney studios releases a live-action nature film, and I look forward to seeing them.  They always feature amazing photography and usually offer remarkable glimpses into areas on our planet which most of us will never explore […]