Reviews

Bad Boys is a comedy team film with Will Smith as the straight guy and Martin Lawrence as the comic.  The team almost reminds us of Abbott and Costello or even George and Gracie Allen, these guys are a comic team and cops in Miami.  The banter and comic intersessions at the heart of the […]

Dave Just Mercy is an entertaining film starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx who turn in some great performances.  Unfortunately, it falls deep into the category of ‘Been There, Done That’ — Or, we’ve seen this all before. It’s Hollywood’s 2020 version of To Kill A Mockingbird.  Just Mercy almost has that feeling of […]

A new sweeping war movie from Sam Mendes (who explored the genre in Jarhead) blends creativity and focus even if its technique might feel a tad gimmicky.  1917 stars Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones) and George MacKay (Captain Fantastic) and uses that continuous shot (like Birdman) to follow its characters on an intense mission on a […]

Director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) gives a slightly updated take to one of my favorite books, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.  She stays true to the book and previous films by keeping all of the spirit of the characters and lush look of the New England setting in tact.  The Marsh family lives in MA, the nineteenth […]

A long long time ago ….. back in 1977 my son and I viewed the first Star Wars episode.  He was twelve and now he is fifty-four and he along with my daughter and I have sat in at opening day for each of the nine episodes.  We each remember the impressions of the floating […]