Reviews

Action movie sequels are funny, we go because we are excited to see our heroes again and we want to know what happened after they last defeated the bad guys.  Mostly, we want to see what our star looks like after all this time – that’s what it really is.   In this case, Denzel […]

New dynamic, if unstructured film from Carlos Lopez Estrada has a musicality about it that riffs much about friendship and social issues serving as a melting pot for the affections instilled in the Bay Area’s Oakland setting. Blindspotting might make a decent companion piece to the concurrent, more creatively surreal Sorry To Bother You as it locates an unconventional […]

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 […]

A wistful, if tangled impressionism comprises Spike Lee’s most accessible feature since Inside Man. And, it has Denzel Washington’s son John David (former NFL running back-turned-actor) at the center of his uneven and unsubtle, though provocative procedural polemic on racial injustice from a 1970s case. One that has its share of humor to go along with impassionate rhetoric […]

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 […]