Reviews

Neil Burger’s film is contrived, it is also satisfying.  Bryan Cranston’s Phillip Lacasse is a quadriplegic who would be happy to end his life.  His accident occurred shortly following the death of his wife, from cancer. He is excessively wealthy, lives high in a penthouse apartment in New York City and needs a personal assistant just to […]

Based on a novel by W. Bruce Cameron, this family-friendly adventure stars Bella, a sweet dog on a treacherous journey to find her way home. Puppy Bella (voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard) lives under a house in Denver, Colorado with a bunch of cats.  The house is ready for demolition when Lucas (Jonah Hauer-King), a nice […]

 A less lurid version of Saw, Hostel, and Final Destination comes from Insidious: The Last Key helmsman Adam Robitel using pillaging, resourceful hosts and surveillance to primarily entice a millennial draw for a five-figure stipend for its obliging participants to assuage their anxieties. A routine irksomeness finally pervades what might be tantalizing for a while in its orchestration and visuals.  Escape Room […]

Etan Cohen can’t blame the writer for the bad script, he wrote it, and his direction does nothing to help the inept story.   The film begins when Holmes as a child is set upon by other kids at an exclusive school in London.  His exclusion by other students leads him to remove closeness to other […]

Mimi Leder’s On The Basis Of Sex is a ready-made, hagiographic, routine biopic of doughty Ruth Bader Ginsburg depicted earlier this year in a stellar documentary of an unlikely woman who became a rock star, RBG. Much was stacked against Ruth whose early legal battles would help change the world for women and there’s not the twists […]