Ready Player One (2018)

Full Disclosure: When I first heard that Steven Spielberg, possibly the greatest director to have ever worked in the medium of film, was tackling this adaptation of a questionable literary work of contemporary science fiction…I wasn’t all that interested. I’d never read the book of the same name by author Ernest Cline, but I had […]

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Well, this was a pleasant surprise…despite not being surprising at all. In some recent reviews, I’ve bitched about suffering from a bit of ‘superhero fatigue’ these days…and I wasn’t lying. There are just SO many movies and series out there, that are derived from some comic book source, that it makes my head spin, and […]

Justice League (2017)

DC just doesn’t get it. That much is obvious, at this point. They’ve been tripping over themselves ever since they decided to leap onto Marvel’s coat-tails and fire up their own shared cinematic universe, but they’ve been impatient…and it shows. Last night, my girlfriend and I were out at a St. Paddy’s Day house party […]

Annihilation (2018)

It seems to be The Weekend for checking out movies that were (or are) getting messed with on their initial releases. Previously, it was ’47 Meters Down’ (2017), which was better than I expected and then there was this one…Alex Garland’s ‘Annihilation’. I’ve been a fan of Garland’s work as a writer for a while, […]

47 Meters Down (2017)

I love sharks…even though most of them scare the shit out of me. Kinda like aircraft…love watching planes fly…but have issues with being up in them. It’s just how I’m programmed. As a kid (6-8ish years old), for some reason, I glommed onto the work of Dr. Eugenie Clark (aka The Shark Lady) and found […]

Blackhat (2015)

One of the things I love about Netflix is the site’s habit of surprising me with new titles that I may have initially been curious about during their theatrical run, but never saw and, usually due to a luke-warm Box Office response, came and quickly went…into a sort of Cinematic Obscurity. ‘Blackhat’ was one such […]

Den of Thieves (2018)

I freely admit to being a sucker for a good bank robbery / heist / ‘cops n robbers’ flick, having previously enjoyed titles like ‘Thief’ (1981), ‘Money Train’ (1995), ‘Heat’ (1995), ‘Armored’ (2009) and the Ocean’s trilogy (2001-2007), among others. So when I first caught wind of this newest addition to the genre, I was […]

6 Days (2017)

I’m a sucker for well-crafted historical dramas or military thrillers, with titles like ‘Black Hawk Down’ (2001), ‘Munich’ (2005), or ‘Lone Survivor’ (2013), leaping instantly to mind. I remember seeing an intriguing trailer or two for this one last year, but unfortunately it’s stay on The Big Screen was short and slight, and I missed […]

The Void (2016)

As a 15 year old kid trapped in a 40 year old man’s body, you can correctly assume that I’m a child of the 1980’s. Being the movie nerd that I am, I have a certain attachment to flicks from that time period, one of the Golden Era’s of Hollywood, and there’s something about the […]

The Shape of Water (2017)

I’ve been interested in this film since I heard that Writer / Director Guillermo Del Toro was passing up directing duties on the sequel to his dumb-but-fun, battle mechs-vs-monsters flick, 2013’s ‘Pacific Rim’, in favor of this far smaller ‘passion project’. Del Toro is another of those directors who’s visual panache alone will put my […]