Reviews

This latest exotically set comedy from the writer/director of Mamma Mia! Who also penned The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its follow-up has two bona fide stars at his disposal, Julia Roberts and George Clooney.  Now, in Ticket To Paradise, their fifth on-screen collaboration continues to display an innate charisma and spunky rapport.  But filmmaker/co-scenarist […]

Black Adam is an overwhelming stream of action scenes with aa very thin script as an adhesive.  A five thousand old city Khandaq an element called ‘Eternium’ is mined by slaves to create a crown from it’s magic crystal.  The crown is the object of desire of many both good and bad citizens of Kahndaq. […]

I will start with a warning for this movie, get all your snacks and drinks and to the restroom BEFORE the film starts because you won’t be able to take your eyes off Ms Viola Davis.    As The Woman King she is electrifying, her beauty and strength GLOW here.  The story of her tribe, warriors […]

Olivia Wilde’s follow-up to the heady Booksmart strives to be a penetratingly snarky thriller, but comes up short of ‘Victory’ in a project shrouded in on-line controversies/quarrels.  The director and co-writer co-stars as best friend Bunny in part hostess mode in a high-end SoCal desert enclave where cocktail parties and Valium are the thing.  What […]

As described by the one of the film’s characters, the changes in the play from Agatha Christie being performed on the stage in the film, are not for the better.   That is what we get from See How They Run a slow moving maudlin film that never truly gets going as a murder mystery.  What […]