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 […]
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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 […]
Continue reading »F1 (2025) ☆ ☆ ☆
Auto racing movies have been around since at least the 1930s, a natural draw to filmmakers and audiences because of their speed, kinetics and action. Not to mention the bravery of the racers themselves. I’ve always enjoyed racing films, which […]
Continue reading »Enola Holmes 2 (2022) ☆ ☆ ☆
Although I only saw this last week, it is as if the producers heard my review of the first film and responded to it. Less Mycroft! More Sherlock! More historical intrigue with the mother figure being much more understandable and […]
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Although I am not Sherlockian, by any means, I have seen most of the movie versions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective, and some of those movies are very good or great. I have enjoyed most of the original […]
Continue reading »Carry-On (2024) ☆ ☆ 1/2
If Liam Neeson were forty years younger this is precisely the kind of role in which he would be cast today. And he would be great. He would be better than Taron Egerton, a good Welsh actor who sports a […]
Continue reading »The Abyss (Avgrunden) (2023) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Being a sucker for disaster films it was only a matter of time before I viewed this Swedish-Finnish co-production regarding a town collapsing into a mine. I had seen good things about it and, despite its derivative title, was looking […]
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