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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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