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 […]
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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 […]
Continue reading »Nuremberg (2025) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
The long internet-tional nightmare is over; I have finally journeyed back into a darkened theatre. For the first time in almost three months I have actually seen a theatrical movie. It’s the longest drought I have endured since back problems […]
Continue reading »My Mother’s Wedding (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
A real movie about real people, My Mother’s Wedding is a welcome return to traditional filmmaking . . . mostly. This is a new release, although it was made three years ago and appeared in a 2023 film festival. It is […]
Continue reading »Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) ☆ ☆ 1/2
I am not a huge Adam Sandler fan — there are at least half a dozen of his comedies which I have never seen — but some of his movies are quite entertaining and have genuinely grown on me over […]
Continue reading »The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) ☆ ☆ ☆
I was not into comic books in my childhood but I do have vague memories of the animated television series “Fantastic 4,” and that quartet of intrepid astronauts were among my favorite characters of the era (along with “Jonny Quest” […]
Continue reading »On the Line (2022) ☆ ☆
When someone is “cancelled” in popular culture, their career goes into a tailspin, perhaps never to recover. That hasn’t happened to Mel Gibson, who had a very public meltdown about twenty years ago but who has continued to act — […]
Continue reading »The Last Duel (2021) ☆ ☆ 1/2
In my never-ending quest to catch up on some of the big movies I have missed over the past five years (that’s why some of my Recent Releases are not so very recent), I have reached back to a notorious […]
Continue reading »Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025) ☆ 1/2
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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