The most powerful stories are those that relate personal experience in all its detail and emotion. This particular story is based on writer-director Elegance Bratton’s own homelessness and difficulties he experienced after joining the Marine Corps. How one reacts to […]
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The Friend (2024) ☆ ☆ ☆
You don’t have to be a dog lover to enjoy the drama The Friend — but it would probably help. The dog in this case is a massive Great Dane named Apollo (Bing), and it is the dog that drives the […]
Continue reading »A Working Man (2025) ☆ ☆
Adapted by Sylvester Stallone, A Working Man is intended to be a new film franchise for action star Jason Statham, based on Chuck Dixon’s book series. Whether such a series materializes is questionable, since this movie did not do very well […]
Continue reading »Zootopia 2 (2025) ☆ ☆ ☆
Nine years ago, Disney unleashed the first Zootopia upon audiences, and have finally put together a sequel. Thankfully, it is just as smart and innovative as the first one, emphasizes story over jokes, and is pretty darned entertaining. Jared Bush and […]
Continue reading »Ella McCay (2025) ☆ ☆
We haven’t heard from writer-director James L. Brooks for a while. He has some classics in his past — Broadcast News, Terms of Endearment, As Good as it Gets — but he also has Spanglish and How Do You Know, both of which […]
Continue reading »A House of Dynamite (2025) ☆ ☆ 1/2
This type of story is right up my alley. I’ve always been fascinated by doomsday scenarios and the films they have spawned: Fail Safe, Dr. Strangelove , . ., Crimson Tide, By Dawn’s Early Light, Miracle Mile, Defcon-4, The Day After, […]
Continue reading »28 Years Later (2025) ☆ ☆
When Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later appeared in 2002, it was celebrated as a frightening, gore-filled, innovative new take on what were becoming familiar zombie tropes. I disagreed, and gave it two stars. I’ve not seen it since. The sequel, 28 […]
Continue reading »Ice Road: Vengeance (2025) ☆ ☆
Four years ago Mike McCann and his brother helped save some trapped miners in northern Canada by traveling the treacherous “Ice Road” and fighting corporate saboteurs along the way. Now, they return in a sequel story that no one expected […]
Continue reading »Monster Summer (2024) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Semi-comic tales of wild adventures which put kids in peril are not among my favorite types of movies (think The Goonies or The Monster Squad). I know those types of films have their rabid fans — especially for viewers who saw them […]
Continue reading »One Life (2023) ☆ ☆ ☆
Having just seen Nuremberg and borne witness to the atrocities committed by the Nazis I thought it would be a good time to see a slightly more positive view of that era, so I watched One Life, a British drama about a […]
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