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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Enola Holmes (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
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 […]
Continue reading »The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) ☆ ☆ ☆
Political dramas are tricky to execute, especially in these socially divided times. Some try to tell stories with a balanced approach, which is quite admirable, but that is an even trickier proposition. And some, like The Trial of the Chicago 7 […]
Continue reading »Unfrosted (2024) ☆ 1/2
Comedy is serious business, so they say. Here you have a legendary comic talent — Jerry Seinfeld — who has the idea, co-writes the script and directs the film, gathering as many friends and associates into the fold as he […]
Continue reading »Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025) ☆ ☆ ☆
After the last episode of this series, which I thought was one of the greatest action movies I have ever seen and rated it four stars, I expected greatness from this one, a film which may mark the end of […]
Continue reading »Here Today (2021) ☆ ☆ ☆
It’s always a pleasure when a movie comes along and succeeds your expectations. I wasn’t expecting much of this nondescript comedy-drama, which looked to be about the hazards of aging in America — something about which I am becoming all […]
Continue reading »The Spore (2021) ☆ 1/2
Regional films are a largely unsung and poorly remembered segment of American cinema. These are films made by people outside of the usual Hollywood cadre, usually made on the cheap, using local scenery and color to tell stories with strong […]
Continue reading »Trap (2024) ☆ ☆ 1/2
For a brief time writer-director M. Night Shyamalan was the toast of Hollywood, made so by the creative and commercial success of The Sixth Sense and a few other titles after that. That was more than twenty years ago. He has […]
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