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 […]

This union of cultural assimilation and horror may offer more obfuscation than genuine frights from a high school setting.  Though moments at a school locker and a swing set can be a bit unnerving. Suri’s not really that bad as a good-natured teen who’s too late to notice that she’s involved in more peril than […]

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 […]

From The Conjuring Universe comes this second installment of a mid-20th Century demon raising holy hell for the Catholic Church. Set around a French boarding school four years after the 2018 original the prologue features a gruesome priestly demise that impels the Vatican to retain the services of Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga, young sister of […]

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 […]