Reviews

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 […]

We are all aware that a cheep novel begins with: “It was a dark and stormy night.”  The Invitation opens with a shot of dark stairway in a dimly light mansion as a storm rages outside filled with rain and lightening strikes.  That scene may be the best scene in the film but it tells […]

Fall is a thriller. When I was a kid I would climb the power company metal towers which were 100 to 200 feet high, going up was a challenge, but getting down was terrifying.  That’s what Grace Caroline Curry and Virginia Gardner must face in a lonely desert as they climb a 2,000 foot abandoned […]