The worst aspect about this movie is probably its title, which is so generic that it is meaningless, and not memorable at all.  And I’m not sure that Tom Arnold is very good as a sweaty federal marshal, but no […]

Usually when a movie is “based on a true story,” as Lawless is purported to be, it piques my interest.  Fictionalizations of actual events often induce me to learn more about the situation in question.  However, because of the relentless unpleasantness […]

First, let me state that Hope Springs is the type of movie that Hollywood should make more often.  It is a movie about people and their very real emotions, contains no high concept, and provides a nice role for our finest […]

I haven’t seen a bicycle messenger movie this good since Quicksilver!  Actually, that 1986 Kevin Bacon film wasn’t very good, so Premium Rush certainly qualifies as the best bicycle messenger movie I have ever seen. Much of the rush of Premium […]

Moviegoers around the world continually chastise Hollywood filmmakers for their perceived lack of originality, and for the copious amounts of cinematic crap they produce.  I know; I’ve done it, too.  Yet every once in a while someone makes a movie […]

I’ve enjoyed the Matt Damon-led Jason Bourne films of the past decade, although, truth be told, I doubt if I could coherently explain just what it is about Treadstone and Blackbriar that is forcing the CIA to hunt Bourne all […]

I must confess that entertainment dealing with witches, curses and magic — fantasy elements — makes me yearn for something else.  Zombies, however, are another story, and, thankfully, there are seven zombies to only one witch in ParaNorman, a new […]

When it comes to movie mayhem, nobody holds a candle to Sylvester Stallone.  In the movies he has destroyed people on a very personal level (the brutal Rocky fights, the underrated Nighthawks, even the first Rambo movie, First Blood), and then, […]