I love Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, and it is nice to see movies that feature females that are strong and smart as well as sexy (Gadot’s Diana is certainly all three). That’s why it’s such a […]

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My suspicion is that The Lost Husband (a poor title for this movie) is similar in subject and tone to a few (or perhaps a host of) made-for-cable-television movies about recovery from widowhood or divorce — yet that would be […]

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You might think that a timely suspense film starring two-time Hilary Swank would be a pretty good bet — but you would be wrong. This slowly-paced thriller contains very few thrills, not enough sexual heat, red herring scenes of violence […]

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I should have known I was watching a Paul W. S. Anderson movie within a few minutes, but I didn’t realize it until the end credit roll. Then it made more sense. Paul W. S. Anderson is a writer and […]

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When I reviewed The Croods back in 2013, I called it “critic proof,” which meant that it had elements that would prove popular enough to overcome negative criticism. It was just that type of movie. So is the sequel, which […]

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Dramatically, this movie is all over the map. It’s a sentimental story, interrupted with slapstick comedy, solemn references to American racism, knowing familial strife and shattered dreams. It really ought to be much darker than it is, because much of […]

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Another 2019 film that was recently re-released to theaters is the dystopian action film Alita: Battle Angel, which was produced (and co-written) by James Cameron. Its source is a Japanese graphic novel, and its lead character, Alita, a cyborg, is […]

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I recently caught up with this 2019 action-comedy and felt it was recent enough to write about. It’s another in a long line of mismatched-buddy pictures, where the manic cop character pulls the other guy along for a wild ride. […]

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