Politicians continue to downplay racism in American culture, despite the fact that it is present and has affected for two centuries, and continues to affect our culture in all sorts of ways, obvious and not so obvious.  This movie explores […]

Turning Red, the expensive Pixar animated film from 2022, is finally receiving a theatrical release, and I made sure to see it in a theatre.  It is incomprehensible to me how Disney / Pixar decided to bypass a theatrical release […]

While Killers of the Flower Moon is an expertly produced, directed and acted film, it isn’t one that lends itself to viewer adoration and the kind of love that leads to repeat viewings.  I doubt that I’ll ever see it again. […]

I’ve mentioned in other reviews how the most acclaimed films use ambiguity to their advantage; one sees what one sees, or wants to see, and the same circumstances can be interpreted in many ways.  This is one of those films, […]

William Friedkin’s final film is a stark retelling of the famous Herman Wouk story and play.  Rather than opening it up, to make it more cinematic (perhaps in the fashion of the similarly-themed drama A Few Good Men), the director […]

Every few years a sports movie comes along to uplift audiences with a great story and a powerful message, which is almost always this — work together as a team and good things will happen.  It worked for Hoosiers; it worked […]

For a while superhero movies were all the rage.  Now I think it is a toss-up between creepy horror stories and shiny, slick caper movies like Lift.  It seems everyone is making them these days, all attempting to find the coolest […]

I have liked each of the first two “Equalizer” movies, although I’ve never seen either the original television series or the new one.  These first two movies have established ex-CIA guy Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) as a fastidious man with […]

We’ve all seen action movies where the action is so unbelievable that any suspension of disbelief is impossible.  I had thought action star Jason Statham had moved past this kind of sloppiness.  Not so.  The Beekeeper is action as its […]