For diehard fans, the long-awaited big screen debut of the popular British sitcom is a pleasing, expected dish of bawdy jokes, impeccable comic timing by Joanna Lumley and crazy scenarios for the boozy, pill popping pair, Patsy and Edina. And while there are some funny moments, for everyone else, most of the jokes will feel […]
The crew of the USS Enterprise is back with a clever, larger than life story and dizzying special effects in the rebooted franchise’s latest sequel, directed by Fast And Furious’ Justin Lin and co-written by Simon Pegg, who reprises his role as engineer Scotty. After answering a distress call in uncharted parts of the galaxy, […]
This biopic, based on the true story of Great Britain’s unlikely 1988 Olympic ski jumper Mike “Eddie the Eagle” Edwards, is cute, campy and corny… and I loved it. While it certainly has a “been there, done that” sort of textbook feel to it, strong performances by Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman make this film’s […]
This hybrid suspense/soft-corn porn wannabe has been done so many times before, and much better. This time it’s high school teacher Jennifer Lopez banging the hot young guy next door, who turns out to be a psychopathic stalker. Sadly, the hackneyed story, over the top dialogue, and boringly predictable plot aren’t even good enough to […]
It’s been 32 YEARS since the now iconic predecessor hit theaters around the globe, so director Paul Feig had some pretty big shoes to fill with this reboot. Fortunately, he gets a big boost from his two muses Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, and even bigger boosts from SNL newcomers Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, […]
Star Trek alums Patrick Stewart and the late Anton Yelchin star in this exceptionally realistic gore fest about a punk band that is trapped in a horrifying skinhead nightclub after witnessing a gruesome murder. A highly original, pulse-pounding and shock-filled story creates an onslaught of horror despite some puzzling plot twists. (But then again, it […]
Wow, what a wacky movie of contradictions. The epic African landscapes, cinematography and awesome animal CGI (the same used in The Jungle Book earlier this year) are truly impressive. And Margot Robbie’s Jane was spot on. But the nonsensical treatment of the story of the man raised by gorillas and the surreal comic relief miscasting […]
The premise is cute – a couple of party boys who are told not to come to their sister’s wedding in Hawaii without dates stumble upon an off-the-chain duo who out-party them. A handful of scenes are hysterical (in particular the one with Kumail Nanjiani as the nude massage therapist), but way more fall flat […]
This is one of the most brutally honest movies about death of the elderly ever made – no moving music score, no montages of a happier youth – just tedious monotony, loneliness and despair. Emmanuelle Riva’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of a retired music teacher in physical and mental decline serves as a grim reminder of the […]
Julia Roberts and Richard Gere star in this now iconic Cinderella story about a prostitute and a wealthy executive who fall in love after spending a magical week together. Ridiculousness of the sweet but far-fetched story aside, Roberts and Gere inject loads of charm into the fairytale, which launched her career into the stratosphere and […]