The first standalone film for the titular Marvel Comics character stars Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road, Dunkirk) as the streetwise investigative reporter who stumbles upon (and gets infected by) the parasitic alien creature brought back from a private space mission – a mission orchestrated by an evil genius (Riz Ahmed) using San Francisco’s homeless […]
A Star Is Born is the archetypal Hollywood love story – an entertainer in the twilight of his career falls for and helps a struggling singer start hers. In this very modern fourth iteration, Bradley Cooper is Jackson Maine, a booze guzzling, pill popping, tinnitus-suffering singer-songwriter in the midst of a rapid, downward spiral when […]
After high school dropout Teddy (Kevin Hart) loses his job, he secretly enrolls in night school to get his GED – where he finds himself face-to-face with a demanding teacher (Tiffany Haddish). Such is the premise behind this formulaic, corny comedy directed by Malcolm D. Lee on the heels of his highly popular and hysterical […]
This sweet, feel good indy flick from writer/director Brett Haley (The Hero) is about a middle-aged, single father (Nick Offerman), who, in the midst of a midlife crisis over the pending closure of his vintage record shop in Brooklyn, forms an alternative music duo with his teenage daughter (Kiersey Clemons), just months before she is […]
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy star in this family-friendly, 1993 comedy/fantasy about a coven of dimwitted, child-eating witches accidentally conjured back to life in Salem, Massachusetts, 300 years after their execution. Nevermind that the black cat CGI is horrendously bad and much of the slapstick humor is mind-numbingly corny – this comedy […]
When a cheerful young Yeti (Channing Tatum) accidentally discovers that the mythical “smallfoot” (i.e. human) really does exist, it creates a quandary when the non-believing head of his Yeti tribe (Common) demands he refute his discovery or be banished from the community. Such is the Bigfoot script-flipping premise behind this animated musical comedy from writer/director […]
“Active Measures” is a Soviet era term, describing Cold War actions designed to shape world events. This aptly-named documentary shows how Russian President Vladimir Putin has effectively used propaganda and cyber terrorism over the years, first in the nations of Georgia and Ukraine, culminating in his most successful spy operation in Russian history – the […]
A drifter with a checkered past wanders into a sleepy farming community in rural Luxembourg looking for work. There, he discovers the bucolic, close-knit village also has a past of its own. Although this EVENTUAL thriller grows about as slow as the village’s surrounding corn fields (at least until its final act), and the story […]
This historical thriller is based on the true story of the Israeli secret agents who, in 1960, flew to Argentina and captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the logistics mastermind who orchestrated the deaths of six million people in the Holocaust. Ben Kingsley is superb as the emotionally-manipulative Nazi leader, as is Oscar Isaac (Star […]
Gabrielle Union stars in this home invasion thriller about a mother trying to rescue her two children from her late father’s remote, high-tech house in the woods after a group of criminals kidnap the kids while searching for a hidden safe filled with millions of dollars. Far-fetched is one thing, but the listless plot is […]