If Agatha Christie were still alive and writing, she may have produced something like this modern mystery, although my guess is that her version would have been more intricate and tricky to decipher.  This Netflix project certainly calls to mind […]

Sometimes more satisfying movie experiences are provided by unlikely titles; this is one of those times for me.  To be sure, Interceptor is a rather cheesy action movie, exaggerated in premise and unabashedly violent and villainous.  It’s not an A-level action […]

In the old days, massive, mind-bending plot twists were virtually nonexistent in movies, but somewhere along the way, filmmakers occasionally thought to flip their storylines in crazy ways to surprise and befuddle audiences.  The first film I can think of […]

I continue to try to catch up with films I missed over the last five years, which I still consider to be “Recent Releases.”  Since I tend to gravitate toward “concept” films rather than “slice of life” pictures I have […]

I am way, way behind in watching the Academy Award nominees, but I finally caught up with Frankenstein tonight, a film I really was not looking forward to seeing.  I’m not much of a fan of its writer-director (I despised Pan’s Labyrinth) […]

Another story from the past now being redone in a modern way is Emily Brontë’s gothic romance Wuthering Heights.  While this project has been addressed several times its most famous incantation remains its 1939 release, directed by William Wyler, starring Laurence […]

Of the more than twelve hundred movie reviews that I have written for this website, this is the first for which I am not providing a star rating for a movie I have seen.  Why?  Because I am having enormous […]

Send Help has some of the elements that I have recently been raving that I don’t like in modern cinema; namely, characters who are much more despicable than heroic, snarky humor regarding subjects with serious consequences, plot points that defy […]

Top-tier action and fantasy movies have huge budgets, big stars and, perhaps most importantly, massive marketing pushes.  Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn’t.  Most producers do not have big budgets and can only afford one recognizable name or two, […]