Yet another ‘swing and a miss’ by Sony studios, Bloodshot starring Vin Diesel, is a high octane flop. Stealing themes and nuances from several successful sci-fi/superhero franchises, this film feels as Frankenstein’s Monster as its leading character. It’s a Matrix-Wolverine-RoboCop-Terminator hybrid that never fully decides what it wants to be. I had pretty low expectations going into this screening, and I have to say it was more entertaining than I had expected. Bloodshot is another run-of-the-mill Vin Diesel action movie […]

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return to the big screen to reprise their roles for the 3rd film of the Bad Boys franchise. Detectives Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennet (Lawrence) team up to ‘ride or die, one last time’. Filled with fast car chases, gunfights, and guttural belly laughs, this film is going to be exactly what you’d expect. If you’re a fan of the first two Bad Boys films, this one will not disappoint.  I loved the first […]

Star Wars has become a household name ever since the first film premiered in theaters in 1977. Everyone knows Star Wars. Everyone! I mean, think about it, this is a series, a franchise, a dynasty – if you will – that has millions of fans throughout the globe – aherm – I mean, the Galaxies! George Lucas and crew came up with what’s probably one of, if not the most, complex fictional narrative universes the world has ever known! Feel […]

Jumanji: The Next Level has a little romance, a lot of laughs, tons of action, and a star studded cast. Who doesn’t like seeing Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart poke fun at each other after they get sucked into a video game and they’ve swap bodies with other characters? Spiced up with a little Jack Black and topped off with Danny Devito, Danny Glover and Nick Jonas – Nick Jonas! If you haven’t seen 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, […]

Knives Out written and directed by Rian Johnson is the surprise hit of the year that I wasn’t expecting. Filled with intelligent writing and great characters, it has become one of my favorite films of 2019. Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, and Christopher Plummer make up the All-Star cast for this ‘Who Done It’ style plot that keeps you guessing up until the very end.  The story follows the Thrombey family after the unexpected […]

One of my favorite things to do at the movies is to find people in the audience on their phones…and tell them to turn it off.  It honestly gives me a sense of pride and satisfaction to attempt to preserve the etiquette of theater-going.  In recent years, a lack of audience etiquette has been a strong contributor to the degradation of the theater-going experience. More than once have I personally witnessed poor theatre etiquette, much to my infuriated dismay.  I […]

Ford V Ferrari is a car lover’s fantasy, but it’s also so much more than that. With an engaging story and an interesting cast of characters, this is an experience that all cinema lovers will enjoy. Going into the screening, I had the preconceived notion that this film would just be loud cars and gearhead porn. I was pleasantly surprised to witness that the focus was on character and story first, cars and action second.  This film tells the story […]

Doctor Sleep, the superhero sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980’s horror classic The Shining, is a desecration of cinematic genius. While trying to juggle and maintain fan service for both the book and the first film, Doctor Sleep was difficult to endure. It never seemed to find its footing and was always trying too hard to bridge the two mediums. What we got was a soup that was just too hot and too cold all at the same time.  Out of […]

I’ve always been a sucker for a good Rom-Com, from a young age I was hooked. To be fair Romantic Comedies are easily put into production because its such an easy audience. People want to laugh and watch a relationship bloom, fall apart and then come back. What I want to do for you my readers is countdown a few of my favorites and why they make the genre better. I’m sure you are thinking but why now? Well if […]

When I first heard there was yet another Terminator movie in the works, I couldn’t help but feel disappointed, upset and quite honestly disrespected as a fan of the first two classics. And then, when the first trailer for “Terminator: Dark Fate drooped,” I felt my disappointment justified and had nothing but very low expectations, thinking “Meh. I won’t get my hopes up.” Especially after having been slapped in the face with the last three let-downs that audaciously called themselves […]