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 […]
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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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Readers of my print version of Filmbobbery may recall that I really enjoy Abominable Snowman / Yeti movies; I wrote an article about them in the Winter, 2001 issue (Volume 2; Issue 3). (By the way, that issue, along with most […]
Continue reading »Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) ☆ ☆
Movie titles which ask questions invite answers. My answer to this one is, No. This based-on-a-true story tale follows writer Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) who turns to forgery and fraud when her own career falls flat. She finds a creative […]
Continue reading »The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) ☆
Not only do I enjoy spy / espionage tales; I usually enjoy spoofs of them (the Johnny English movies notwithstanding). For instance, I love the James Coburn Flint movies even more than the James Bond thrillers which inspired them. But spy spoofs […]
Continue reading »Hunter Killer (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
I love to read submarine thrillers, from World War II stories like Run Silent Run Deep to Cold War adventures by Richard P. Henrick and state-of-the-art techno-thrillers by Patrick Robinson (who actually has a novel called “Hunter Killer,” but it is […]
Continue reading »Halloween (2018) ☆ ☆
My first issue with this new iteration of the Michael Myers saga is its title. Really? Couldn’t’ they have made it something different, seeing as it ignores all the other Myers stories except for the first one? Naming it simply Halloween […]
Continue reading »Skyscraper (2018) ☆ ☆
This often unbelievable action movie combines elements of The Towering Inferno and Die Hard, as a Hong Kong skyscraper burns out of control as a massacre and robbery takes place elsewhere in the building and vicinity. Technology is presented as the reason d’etre […]
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Journalism can produce epic entertainment. Remember All the President’s Men and Spotlight. Now there is Tag! Based on a Wall Street Journal article about childhood friends keeping a game of “tag” alive for thirty years, this movie has taken that idea and run wild with […]
Continue reading »A Simple Favor (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
One of the more unusual films I’ve seen lately is A Simple Favor, which introduces us to two strong female characters who then run rampant all over their complicated, dangerous story. Several of the important supporting characters are also female, making […]
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