This film has the makings of nightmare fodder for me: a jet crash in the ocean followed by shark attacks.  Still, I decided to brave the waters because I try to face my oceanic fears and see just about every […]

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This is another Liam Neeson action flick, but it’s a little different than the others.  Filmed three years ago but just released this year Cold Storage is science fiction / horror rather than mere suspense / action, and the elderly action […]

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While absurdly popular, Pixar’s animated films are hit-and-miss with me, but the Toy Story series is consistently excellent.  The only one I haven’t loved is Toy Story 3, and that one is at least pretty good.  I’m back to being amazed […]

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I had trepidations about this movie for several reasons, yet I have to admit that most of those worries were assuaged by its end.  That lesson, which I often forget, is that one shouldn’t prejudge something (or someone, for that […]

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I don’t see a great many documentaries, and probably half of the ones I do are about moviemaking, because that is what most interests me.  This particular British documentary combines two stories: that of a really misguided and bad 1956 […]

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My conundrum regarding this movie is that while I dislike its premise and altogether too-casual violence, I actually feel the writing and acting is quite effective.  Modern crime films like this, or Guns Up or anything Guy Ritchie puts together or […]

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Perhaps the most anticipated movie since, well, Oppenheimer, is The Odyssey, based on Homer’s dense tome which most of us were required to read back in our early years.  I did and don’t remember a thing about it.  These days I look […]

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I really admire Charlize Theron, who began her movie career as gorgeous eye candy, gradually developed into a charming leading lady, startlingly submerged herself into what I consider to be the greatest film performance I have ever witnessed in Monster […]

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I guess I should admit right up front that this is a movie that many viewers and critics really don’t seem to like.  I’ve read criticisms of its politics, its accuracy (from its uniforms to its action sequences) and, most […]

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I finally caught up with the third “Fletch” movie, the first one in almost forty years, and one which is not a continuation of the two previous Chevy Chase vehicles but more of a rebooting of the character with Jon […]

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