As much as I see and enjoy movies, sometimes things pass me by with little fanfare. I recall the 2000 release of Walt Disney Studio’s The Emperor’s New Groove, but it held no interest for me at all at that time. Now, […]
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Promising Young Woman (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
When someone says “Movies can be, or should be, more than just entertainment,” this is the type of movie to which they are referring. Promising Young Woman is about all kinds of issues important to our society today; the fact […]
Continue reading »The Marksman (2021) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Our annual January / February visit with Liam Neeson on the big screen hasn’t always resulted in fabulous films, but The Marksman is pretty good. It’s certainly a step above Cold Pursuit, Taken 3 or Non-Stop (I missed The Silence and The Commuter). It’s the […]
Continue reading »The King of Staten Island (2020) ☆ ☆
I feel obliged to confess that one of my weaknesses in movie criticism is an aversion to certain lead characters who I feel are so flawed that they don’t deserve to be in movies. Now I know that is nonsense; […]
Continue reading »Fantasy Island (2020) ☆ ☆
I’m still making the effort to catch up with 2020 releases that I missed the first time around. One of those is the Sony / Blumhouse offering Fantasy Island. This is a horror-oriented remake of the old romantic TV series (1977-), […]
Continue reading »News of the World (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Writer-director Paul Greengrass and star Tom Hanks have excellent track records for quality filmmaking, so it is really no surprise that their newest film, News of the World, is very good. No, the big surprise is in the form of […]
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