This comic crime drama set in Oregon (but filmed in British Columbia) follows a familiar path, establishing a clever premise in which an ordinary guy must take extraordinary means to survive. It hits a great many obvious tropes along the […]
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The Flash (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Long, overproduced superhero movies are, as regular readers are certainly aware, not my thing. I am not the intended audience. Nevertheless, I buy my ticket, I get to have my say about it. And what do you know, I was […]
Continue reading »Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) ☆ ☆
Famed movie hero Indiana Jones is on the big screen again, for the fifth and final time. One last go-round for the man with the whip and the fedora. It’s been quite a ride, but the bottom line is that […]
Continue reading »No Hard Feelings (2023) ☆ ☆ ☆
As prudish as I can be about crudity and profanity and bad behavior in modern movies, which is sometimes pervasive, it is more often the style in which it is presented than the subject matter which bothers me. What I […]
Continue reading »Asteroid City (2023) ☆
I think I am finished with Wes Anderson. The filmmaker who has become a cult favorite among both actors who love to work with him and audiences who adore his whimsical creations has never been more popular. But after a […]
Continue reading »About My Father (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Familial comedies have been around since the beginning of cinema, and as this movie proves, the same themes are still being explored more than a century later. The main differences are the ways in which the stories are being told; […]
Continue reading »Mother’s Day (Dzień Matki) (2023) ☆ ☆
Action movies are not just an American institution. New from Poland is a martial arts-filled tale of familial distress which causes one woman to rampage her way across a dark city just like a young Jackie Chan or Steven Seagal […]
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