I’m a sucker for robot movies, from Metropolis and Tobor the Great through Ex Machina and now The Wild Robot.  This new animated robot movie is reminiscent of The Iron Giant and Wall-E (and even Cast Away) in many ways, but all its own when all […]

Two-character dramatic pieces are relatively rare for movies; even rarer are those involving couples.  For every male-centric drama such as Sleuth or Gerry or Hell in the Pacific or My Dinner with Andre there are a lesser number of male-female combinations like Heaven […]

‘Tis the season for scary stuff, but some fright flicks are more family-oriented than others.  This one is definitely family friendly, yet it has some very effective moments of horror and especially character design.  I stumbled across this movie on […]

As earlier reviews certainly indicate I have never been much of a fan for the Transformers.  It remains astounding to me that several live action films from Michael Bay and others about the Hasbro toys come to life have been […]

Some films become legendary not because of their great quality but due to the incredible difficulties overcome in their making.  Waterworld, for instance, is better known for being supremely expensive due to disruptions by two hurricanes and disagreements between its […]

Movies based upon historical events — especially historical events which were classified until a few years ago — hold a great deal of interest for me.  This World War II adventure was largely unknown because Winston Churchill wanted it kept […]

I cannot recall a more depressing movie that I have ever seen than Civil War.  What a downer.  It should have been titled The Fall of America or something as equally pessimistic about the future, because that’s what it is.  Pure pessimism. […]

Horror films are supposed to horrify.  Many fail to do so.  Barbarian begins with a solid premise, one which might lead in any one of several directions, and eventually leads us underground to a genuinely harrowing scenario.  While it eventually […]

Some movies can win you over with sheer chutzpah.  The brutal Christmas adventure Violent Night is, for me, one of those movies.  I didn’t expect to like it at all, but I found it to be amusing and occasionally funny, with […]