Reviews

An overpowering C.G.I. film driven by every bloated visual effect known to man.    A monument to sensory overload at its finest, a shameful, and unnecessary reinvention of the Spider-Man myth (once again). Oozing with big Hollywood dollar signs.  Hey, let’s watch New York City get destroyed again!   Or does (Spidey save the day?) […]

Alpha – A story of survival set 20,000 years ago during the last Ice Age.  Or, one of the most implausible films to be released in a quite some time.  Sorry, folks – It’s the latter. It’s difficult to believe that anyone would find this movie entertaining.  It’s a conflagration of so many weekly programs […]

Rami Malek as Freddie, Gwilym Lee as Brian May, Ben Hardy as Roger Taylor, Joe Mazzello as John Deacon, and Lucy Boynton as Freddie’s lifelong companion Mary Austin, do an admirable job considering this ‘Twisted Rubik’s Cube’ of a script. Bohemian Rhapsody is a seriously disjointed biopic of Freddie Mercury and Queen from multiple viewpoints.  The film simply dances around every […]

Although based on a true story, White Boy Rick suffers from an identity crisis. What’s it about – Rick? (Richie Merritt), or his Dad? (Matthew McConaughey). We get caught up somewhere in the middle of a father and son living on the edge of desperation in 1984 Detroit. The film has its moments of suspense and intrigue, but […]