The long-running horror series is — yet again — finally coming to an end, and that is a good thing. After a great beginning there is no question that the Michael Myers saga has run its course. It’s about damn […]
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Lou (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
I often opine about modern action movies which (I feel) often exploit their characters in favor of bone breaking fight choreography and unrealistic violence. Well, here is one with solid reasoning for its action, which is presented in realistic fashion. […]
Continue reading »See How They Run (2022) ☆ ☆
Satirical murder mysteries are tough to make, tough to sell and, in this case, tough to enjoy, even when the foundational source material is rich (as it is here). Aficionados of Agatha Christie may find more merit than I did, […]
Continue reading »Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
A few months ago the first Star Trek movie was given theatrical showing and I saw it and subsequently reviewed it as a Recent Release. Now I am doing the same for its sequel, enjoying its 40th anniversary at theaters this […]
Continue reading »Bullet Train (2022) ☆ 1/2
Few things are more deflating to a moviegoer like myself than a movie which proves that newer movies like this one are not being made for me. This stylized, ultra-violent, ironical comedy is clearly made for people who love Quentin Tarantino’s […]
Continue reading »Top Gun: Maverick (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Yes, I’ve already seen Top Gun: Maverick — on July 7 — and gave it an excellent three-and-a-half star review. Well I’ve just seen it again, and it’s even better. More thrilling, with deeper characterizations and meaning than I was giving […]
Continue reading »Jaws (1975) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Back in the theater again, and this time on IMAX screens, Jaws was, is, and remains one of the great movies in the history of cinema. It’s the film that put Steven Spielberg on the Hollywood map, changed summertime movie exhibition […]
Continue reading »Elvis (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Well, this movie sure surprised me. I expected a flashy, perhaps overproduced, probably superficial biography of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll. That was all present, especially early, when a plethora of split screen views, stylish location labels, […]
Continue reading »Blacklight (2022) ☆ ☆
Late-blooming action star Liam Neeson is still mixing it up with well-trained terrorists and shady government agents almost fifteen years after his breakout action hit Taken (prior to that he still had ambitions in serious films like The Bounty, Schindler’s List and Rob […]
Continue reading »Fall (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
Another movie about people in peril is Fall, a film which no one who suffers from a fear of heights will feel comfortable watching. That includes me. The filmmaking team does a masterful job of framing the camera to maximize the […]
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