An episodic comedy about four lifelong friends who stay in contact with a monthly reading assignment, Book Club brings together a whole group of wizened performers who display their comic and romantic skills. The women: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen […]
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
Filling in the blanks is what is being done with the variety of new Star Wars movies which are not part of the ongoing series. Rogue One and now Solo are simply jumping back in time (from the point of A New Hope, […]
Continue reading »I Feel Pretty (2018) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I like Amy Schumer as a performer; she is smart and funny and seems fearless. I also find her very attractive, which makes the premise of I Feel Pretty, in which she is cast as a woman who does not believe […]
Continue reading »Avengers: Infinity War (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
As comic book superhero movies go, this one seems like the ultimate (but probably isn’t; the next one, which will wrap up the Thanos thread, probably will be even bigger). Not only do we have the regular Avengers, but some […]
Continue reading »Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (2017) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I have a special interest in this film because of its subject, Gloria Grahame, about whose performances my 2011 book discusses in detail. I must admit that this movie caused me trepidation, partly because I have a very complete picture […]
Continue reading »A Quiet Place (2018) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I really wanted to like A Quiet Place. It has a wonderful science-fictional premise and using silence as an ever-present necessity is brilliant. Then why was I so frustrated and disappointed with the film? Let me explain. John Krasinski’s film shows […]
Continue reading »Final Portrait (2018) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Movies about people who create art or literature are especially difficult because the artistic impulse is interior. How do you convey how someone else views the world other than watching them paint or type or sculpt or think? It’s the […]
Continue reading »Rampage (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
Sometimes the silliest movies (or the stupidest, or the raunchiest, or the weirdest) offer more fun their more traditional counterparts, and that is certainly true for Rampage. I had a blast watching this science-run-amok monsterfest, which is, essentially, an updated King […]
Continue reading »Black Panther (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
Regular readers know my general antipathy to superhero films, comic book adaptations and fantasy films, yet even I can appreciate a good one when it comes along. Black Panther is a good one. I was surprised to find it a […]
Continue reading »Isle of Dogs (2018) ☆ ☆ ☆
Wes Anderson’s films are quirky ensemble pieces that many people love. I’ve been ambivalent about some of them, but I have really enjoyed his unique animated stories. First it was Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009); now it’s Isle of Dogs. Anderson’s anthropomorphic allegories […]
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