New Tales to Be Told Pirates of the Caribbean: the action packed comedy that far surpasses the 4th installment, “Dead Men Tell No Tales” feels like the first PoTC in a good way. The movie introduces new main characters and they share a chemistry with the senior cast that is fresh and fun. Javier Bardem’s Captain […]
The Space Between Us – In this interplanetary adventure, shortly after arriving to help colonize Mars, an astronaut dies while giving birth to the first human born on the red planet – never revealing who the father is. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Gardner Elliot – an inquisitive, highly intelligent boy who reaches the […]
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world’s most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people’s minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As […]
From director Makoto Shinkai, the innovative mind behind Voices of a Distant Star and 5 Centimeters Per Second, comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls. The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. […]
There’s something that never grows old about seeing an apex predator do its thing in the world of puny humans. Kong: Skull Island offers many of the usual tropes inherent in monster movies, but also delivers more than enough new twists and turns on the King Kong genre to make this new offering entertaining and […]
As a public service, the following review may contain some spoilers. I suppose it was inevitable that there would be an Assassin’s Creed movie. After approximately 97 iterations of the video game series and no small share of love from the fan community, it was bound to happen. It’s just a shame that the scriptwriting […]
The following review contains no spoilers. Dear Santa, I thought, as I eased my bulk into a theater seat and prepared to watch Rogue One, Disney’s latest addition to the Star Wars saga. Please let this one be better than Episode Seven. My invoking of that holiday myth was by process of elimination. Star Wars […]
As many of you know, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opened this weekend, debuting to $75 million at the domestic box office. This movie had a lot to live up to as the latest addition to a well-established and beloved franchise. The good news is that Fantastic Beasts definitely does live up to that […]
It’s an exciting few weeks for great movies, and my theater budget is going to be exhausted by Christmas. But it’s so worth it! I had the good fortune of seeing Marvel’s Doctor Strange a week early, at the EW Popfest, and really enjoyed it. It was fun, mind-bending, thought-provoking, and beautifully shot. Benedict Cumberbatch […]
Oscar Madly hovers on the brink of adulthood – destabilized by his dysfunctional parents, unsure of his sexuality, and haunted by horrific images of a tragic gay bashing he witnessed as a child. A talking hamster, imagination and the prospect of love help him confront his surreal demons and discover himself. Stephen Dunn’s Closet Monster […]
