I’ve been a space supporter and advocate my whole life, yet I was completely unaware of this side of the space program.  Hidden Figures serves as an historical document as much as a mainstream entertainment, and it succeeds tremendously on […]

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Lion shares a premise with Moonlight, in that it presents a young boy in distinct peril in an environment fraught with danger, all alone until he is taken in by people who wish to help him.  Moonlight takes place in […]

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Another film I saw awhile ago bothered me even more than Manchester by the Sea.  It’s Jackie, the post-JFK assassination story of how first lady Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) reacted to her husband’s horrible killing and spent the next week trying to […]

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I’ve held off on reviewing this film for three weeks, hoping to come to a better understanding of it.  Today it received six Academy Award nominations.  I still don’t like it.  Let’s discuss. Kenneth Lonergan’s film is very personal, following […]

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Being a science-fiction fan I’ve been looking forward to Passengers since the first preview I’ve seen.  This is a film that represents the best of science-fiction: a grandly sweeping story with a personal focus, structured on a scale of immensity, against […]

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Anthropomorphism reaches a new plateau in Sing, an animal-character story in which a theater-owning koala bear tries to save his failing business by hosting a voice competition (ala “American Idol” or “The Voice”).  In this day and age such a concept […]

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I love my avocation of watching and writing about movies — yet sometimes it pains me when I do not connect with a movie or a trend that other people adore.  Such is the case with the new romantic fantasy […]

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Just as the Star Wars universe is becoming more diverse, so is the stable of Disney animation characters and stories.  Princesses still rule the roost, but The Princess and the Frog‘s Tiana and Moana‘s Moana at least look and sound differently than the […]

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I like the Star Wars franchise, but I don’t revere it the way some do.  I’ve actually met people who claim to have seen the first one (A New Hope) fifty or more times.  Now you can’t even see the original […]

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Based on real people and events, Loving tells the story of Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) and his wife Mildred (Ruth Negga).  Richard is a white bricklayer; Mildred is black; after marrying in the District of Columbia they return to live in […]

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