Perhaps if I were very young I might find this seventh “Jurassic Park” adventure fun and exciting, but somehow, I doubt it. I remember times when “Jurassic Park” and even “Jurassic World” meant adventure, exciting and fun. Not anymore. Now […]
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F1 (2025) ☆ ☆ ☆
Auto racing movies have been around since at least the 1930s, a natural draw to filmmakers and audiences because of their speed, kinetics and action. Not to mention the bravery of the racers themselves. I’ve always enjoyed racing films, which […]
Continue reading »Enola Holmes 2 (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
Although I only saw this last week, it is as if the producers heard my review of the first film and responded to it. Less Mycroft! More Sherlock! More historical intrigue with the mother figure being much more understandable and […]
Continue reading »Enola Holmes (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
Although I am not Sherlockian, by any means, I have seen most of the movie versions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective, and some of those movies are very good or great. I have enjoyed most of the original […]
Continue reading »Carry-On (2024) ☆ ☆ 1/2
If Liam Neeson were forty years younger this is precisely the kind of role in which he would be cast today. And he would be great. He would be better than Taron Egerton, a good Welsh actor who sports a […]
Continue reading »The Abyss (Avgrunden) (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Being a sucker for disaster films it was only a matter of time before I viewed this Swedish-Finnish co-production regarding a town collapsing into a mine. I had seen good things about it and, despite its derivative title, was looking […]
Continue reading »The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
Political dramas are tricky to execute, especially in these socially divided times. Some try to tell stories with a balanced approach, which is quite admirable, but that is an even trickier proposition. And some, like The Trial of the Chicago 7 […]
Continue reading »Unfrosted (2024) ☆ 1/2
Comedy is serious business, so they say. Here you have a legendary comic talent — Jerry Seinfeld — who has the idea, co-writes the script and directs the film, gathering as many friends and associates into the fold as he […]
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