Reviews

Bumblebee brings us back to 1987. Bumblebee 127 is one of the smaller transformers involved in the battle for his home planet and is sent to Earth to be its protector and to develop a place where his side can be safe. Given the year this story takes place it is before the giant battles […]

I liked this Aquaman! No, not just because Jason Momoa is very nice to look at but because it was a decent story and had interesting visual effects.  Yes, it’s a little sappy with the mermaid queen meets the regular lighthouse guy but overall it was entertaining enough. There could have been a little bit […]

A new earnest musical fantasy from the maker of Chicago and Into The Woods follows its celebrated 1964 predecessor in Depression-era London (three decades hence) and has a melancholic lilt to it for a while, anyway. Mary Poppins Returns may not have the same jauntiness and memorable melodies (and tunes), but an amazing vastness of purity and nostalgia accompanies many […]

Mission Impossible – Fallout is the 6th installment of the Mission Impossible franchise.  This time we find Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) attempting to track down black market plutonium in order to prevent them from getting into the hands of those who wish to turn them into nuclear bombs.  In order to help him, Hunt recruits […]

Dwayne Johnson spends a couple of hours climbing to the top of the highest building in the World as it burns below him.  Sounds familiar:  The Towering Inferno and Die Hard are photo copied for this action film as a man climbs a burning building to save his family.  But even when we have seen much of […]