I was unaware of this unfortunately routine action flick until after the recent diagnosis of Bruce Willis’ aphasia. Then I checked out his recent filmography and was surprised to see to many straight-to-video or straight-to-streaming titles from a guy who […]
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Cry Macho (2021) ☆ ☆ ☆
Clint Eastwood is 91 years old, and he is still making movies. Pretty good ones. It’s kind of a shock to see him in Cry Macho because he is, well, frail. His character still throws a punch and tames a bucking […]
Continue reading »The French Dispatch (2021) ☆
Have you every picked up a magazine of some sort, glanced at it and realized immediately that it just held no interest for you whatsoever? That’s how I feel about The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson’s new movie, his love letter to […]
Continue reading »Outside the Wire (2021) ☆ ☆
One of the newer Netflix movies that is available is almost prescient in its setting — Outside the Wire is set in Ukraine, where the country is torn apart in civil war, albeit one in 2036. Most of the country is […]
Continue reading »The Worst Person in the World (2021) ☆ ☆ ☆
I don’t care for the title because it doesn’t reflect the main character, Julie, which I believe it references. Sure, Julie is narcissistic, selfish, thoughtless, immature, rather superficial and sometimes foolish, but she isn’t the worst person in the world. […]
Continue reading »Death on the Nile (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
This is the second Hercule Poirot detective film directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. Curiously, both this title and its predecessor, Murder on the Orient Express, were remakes of films from the 1970s. I don’t understand why Branagh didn’t start with […]
Continue reading »Moonfall (2022) ☆ ☆
My first 2022 movie viewing is so light I felt like I could have floated out of my theater seat. Popcorn movies are fun; this one is pure bubblegum, and I just shake my head seeing that Roland Emmerich was […]
Continue reading »Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) ☆ ☆ ☆
The newest Spider-Man adventure is spectacularly ambitious, marvelously nostalgic and quite entertaining. It is easily the most popular film of the pandemic era and its IMDb rating is currently 30th all time. Everybody loves it. I enjoyed it — more than […]
Continue reading »The Power of the Dog (2021) ☆ ☆ ☆
A character study in the guise of a modern western (circa 1925), The Power of the Dog is the darling movie of the current awards season, garnering twelve Academy Award nominations and is the favorite to win at least a few, […]
Continue reading »The Unholy (2021) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Of all the various types of horror films, those which play with religious belief and iconography are the most unsettling to me. I remember not being willing to see the original version of The Omen back when I was a teen […]
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