Reviews

Even with few surprises A Dog’s Journey satisfies.  The characters are often rather shallow and predictable particularly Betty Gilipin as the daughter-in-law who keeps CJ (Kathryn Prescott) away from her grandparents who are played by Marg Helgenberger and Dennis Quaid.  She is an empty parent who drinks, spends her daughter’s inheritance and spends her evenings […]

Not much happens in Poms, but it is comical and enjoyable at times.  The story revolves around Martha (Diane Keaton) who has given up her forty year residence in New York and moves to Georgia.  Her new home is in a gated community filled with retired folks but mostly women as Sheryl (Jacki Weaver) points […]

Who would pair Seth Rogen with Charlize Theron, but that’s the hook in Long Shot.  On the surface they don’t match up very well, but the script takes that chance and puts the characters in a romantic situation even when he has little status and she is a candidate for President of the United States.  […]

Beginning at a quiet picnic at which Jeremy Renner (Clint Barton/Hawkeye) is teaching his daughter how to use the bow and arrow, we learn the major direction of Endgame.  The kids are playing and mom is cooking for an outside picnic on the side of an idealistic hillside when suddenly everyone disappears except Hawkeye. It’s […]

This new film about Penguins is not better and certainly not worst than the many other Penguin films which have recently hit the screen.  In this case a Penguin who is named Steve is followed through a year of activity.  Beginning with his return to Antarctica from the ocean in Spring, looking for a place to […]