Reviews

Based on the book The Man Who Made Vermeers we follow a Dutch folk hero Han van Meegeren (Guy Pearce) who sold forgeries of Johannes Vermeer paintings to the Nazis.  He is considered the most successful art forger of all time.  Beyond the main theme which ends in a spectacular Perry Mason style court case, […]

Another horror film by Blumhouse but with a sufficient difference.  The horror doesn’t hang heavy, it’s almost tongue-in-cheek and is filled with comedy.  The story appears initially like many mean girl films with Millie Kessler (Kathryn Newton) who is the one receiving the harassment from the mean boys and girls at her high school.  With […]

When We Last Spoke is a pleasant surprise during this period of the virus.  Even with somewhat of a Soap Opera style handing over the script it is a genuine well performed and directed story of two young girls and how they deal with adversity while growing up.  Darby Camp who plays Juliet the older […]

In 1935 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy stared in a comedy called Tit For Tat, in which they exchanged nasty pranks on a guy named Hill who owned the store next to theirs.  The War with Grandpa here in 2020 has the same premise but it’s between a grandfather (Robert De Niro) and grandson (Oakes […]

Millie Bobby Brown is just right as the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes as she becomes Yentl dressing as a young man having purchased clothing from one of the workmen on the estate where she is stationed at a finishing school to learn how to become a woman who will marry.  Reaching for her freedom […]