Movie Reviews

For those of you who think I spent too much time last week whining about "Overboard" not being funny, just a heads up that "Life of the Party" this week is going to...

"Overboard" is a remake of a reprehensible 1987 film starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. In that film, poor slob Russell takes advantage of the amnesia suffered...

As long as there have been The Avengers, there has been the threat of Thanos (Josh Brolin). The villain's visage first appeared midway through the credits of the...

"Rampage" stars Dwayne Johnson as a primatologist who has to save Chicago from the triple terror of an enormous genetically-mutated gorilla, an enormous genetically-...

I really liked "Don't Breathe," the horror movie from 2016 with the blind antagonist and potential victims who had to be careful to not make a sound. That movie had...

It's no accident that "Ready Player One" opened on Easter weekend, as this movie is obsessed with Easter Eggs. Not the kind one paints and puts in a basket, but...

2013's "Pacific Rim" was a movie about giant robots called Jaegers that fought giant city-leveling monsters called Kaiju. Yes, the story was officially about the...

There's a rule among movie buffs that there has never been a decent live-action adaptation of a video game. Not a single one. A scant few detractors will defend the...

Last week I reviewed "Red Sparrow," a spy movie with a typical spy movie plot. All of the characters had their own agenda, loyalties kept flip-flopping around, and...

"Red Sparrow" is a movie that never stays the same quality for very long. It'll seem clever and intricate for a few scenes and then do something stupid. It'll be...

"Game Night" sees its characters playing one of those elaborate role-playing games that's spread out over several miles and involves a full company of actors. I'm...

We were first introduced to T'challa aka Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) two years ago in "Captain America: Civil War." A prince from the fictional African country...

I don't blame the birds for chirping or the fish for swimming. I don't blame February for being cold or a romantic restaurant for being booked up on Valentine's Day...

"Winchester" opened on a bad weekend, and I mean that on two fronts. The first is that it's the weekend of the Super Bowl, so the movie can kiss its Sunday evening...

"Maze Runner: The Death Cure" really missed out on the "YA book series set in a dystopian future" bandwagon. That trend essentially ended when "The Hunger Games"...

"12 Strong" is one of those January movies that wants people to think that it's in awards contention even though it isn't. We're at the point in the year when movies...