Sometimes, often based on previews, a movie does not, or cannot, live up to the expectations it creates. For me, this happens with The Mule, Clint Eastwood’s drama about an elderly man who becomes a drug runner for a Mexican cartel. […]
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Welcome to Marwen (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
Truth tends to clutter fiction in weird ways, as evidenced by this intriguing drama. Welcome to Marwen chronicles one man’s journey to recover from a traumatic brain injury. Its preview reveals this clearly and promises an inspiring, imaginative narrative as […]
Continue reading »Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
Six years after Wreck-it Ralph first appeared, Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and Vanellope (voice of Sarah Silverman) are forced to make the jump from their games at Litwak’s Arcade to the spectacular hub of the internet itself to find […]
Continue reading »The Grinch (2018) ☆ ☆
Call me grinchly if you want, but I’ve never been a big fan of the green guy. Dr. Seuss just isn’t my thing, and I’ve felt that way ever since the 1966 TV special. The rhyming seems forced, the made-up […]
Continue reading »Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
I don’t know very much about the music group Queen, although I’ve certainly enjoyed their music over the years. This movie depicts how Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) first joins Brian May (Gwilym Lee), Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy) and John Deacon […]
Continue reading »A Star is Born (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
This is the fourth big screen iteration of this venerable story, which made me sigh with apathy when I heard it had been greenlit. It’s not that the story is unworthy; each version has been popular and has won, or […]
Continue reading »Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) ☆
Evidently I never reviewed the first Fantastic Beasts movie on Filmbobbery; I must have seen it on video after its initial release. Truth is I had little to no interest in beginning another Harry Potter-ish tale, or sequence of tales, which […]
Continue reading »Venom (2018) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I was not looking forward to this schizophrenic superhero movie, but I have to admit that it is genuinely entertaining. Journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) runs with a story implicating a San Francisco businessman in shady dealings; soon Brock is […]
Continue reading »The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
I am a huge fan of the three Swedish films adapted from Stieg Larsson’s books about a decade ago, and the David Fincher film which followed (a remake of the first film) was pretty darn good, too. Now a new […]
Continue reading »Boy Erased (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
No matter how well-intended or well-meaning a movie is, it must contain solid entertainment value to succeed. Be it great writing, acting, cinematography, music or other element, a movie must offer audiences something other than platitudes and nobility for it […]
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