Reviews

Opening on Friday, January 13 is a fitting day for this action filled adventure to hit American screens.  The bad luck pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) must face nearly insurmountable  action to save the Plane.  Director Jean-Francis Richet waists little time getting the characters and the audience into a flight in South East Asia, moving […]

An elegant powerful crime saga for the ages is being re-released in limited venues prior to its original March 1972 opening.   Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather was the first of three installments that was a gamble at the time for the 31-year-old that paid off immensely in collaboration with its author (and co-adapter) Mario […]

Hugh Jackson stars as private investigator Nick Bannister in this futuristic science fiction-thriller directed by Lisa Joy, co-creator of HBO’s Westworld. Climate change has hit America and the Miami setting looks more like Venice than a sun-soaked beach playground.   The streets are flooded, buildings burn in the background and the days are so hot, […]

Director Chase Palmer adapted Sergio De LaPava’s 2013 novel starring John Boyega (Star Wars trilogy) as Casi, a disillusioned New York City Public Defender.  He’s tired of the Justice system that he’s part of, but continues to vigorously fight for his clients. He has a very contentious relationship with a Judge (Linda Lavin) and his […]

Disney’s new adventure based on their popular park ride stars Dwayne Johnson as Frank Wolff, a hard drinking, fast-talking steamboat captain on the Amazon River. Set in 1916, he’s hired by Dr. Lily Houghton, (Emily Blunt) a feisty British botanist, to take her and her brother MacGregor (Jack Whitehall) down the River to find the […]