Reviews

Ben Mezrich’s book ‘The Associated Network’ is brought to the big screen with some amusing flair but less dramatic flourish and energy by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl).  Using plenty of graphics to help convey the complexities in a seismic financial shift without an anti-capitalist screed.  Dumb Money referring to chump retail backers […]

British filmmaker Kenneth Branagh is back for his third incarnation of Agatha Christi that is more impressive in its mood and settings than in its narrative convolutions of potboiler and ghost story. A Haunting in Venice has Branagh’s retired Belgian sleuth Here Poirot in the titular Italian city circa 1947 in a contest to his […]

The wedding is over, and this version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding written by Nia Vardalos has no spark remaining.   Mostly we miss Michael Constantine and his windex as Mr. Portokalos father of the bride he appears to have been the heart of the comedy in the story.  He passed on a few […]

Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua as star, director and both producers are back for perhaps the final literation of this increasingly violent action-thriller franchise based on the CBS drama staring Edward Woodward.  This time Washington’s retired Marine and intelligence officer Robert McCall is in scenic southern Italy, Sicily’s Altomonte, to serve the oppressed; his new […]

This could be Speed in a car.  The idea of folks captured in a limited space with the danger of an explosion hanging over their head.   Liam Neeson’s Matt Turner is a business partner of Anders Muller (Matthew Modine).  He is also in a family situation where edgy relationships exist.  Son Zack (Jack Champion) […]