Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

Let’s dispense with the bullshit, shall we…NO ONE is ever going to fully replace my man Harrison Ford as either ‘Indiana Jones’ or ‘Han Solo’. Knowing that, within my heart of hearts, I was instantly skeptical when I heard that The Mouse House was going to be making their second anthology film the origin story […]

Small Tales: A ‘Just Cuz’ Project

EPISODE ONE: WATER HEATER BLUES “All it took was one quiet phone call from my undercover LAPD informant…one name drop, one location…and I was on the case. I’d been looking for this particular low-life for months. Now…it was MY turn!”– Stunt Pilot / Crime Fighter Cliff Secord. Our intrepid hero, Cliff Secord, otherwise known as […]

Deadpool 2 (2018)

Well, the Summer Blockbuster season is in full swing yet again…and ‘DP2’ fits in perfectly! It’s a nifty sequel to a surprisingly successful first film that took chances and delighted audiences with it’s tonally perfect (ie crass) presentation and winking-at-the-audience execution. And if you liked the first one…you WILL get a kick out of #2! […]

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Wow…I’m almost at the point of giving up, when it comes to opening my reviews of Marvel titles with something akin to “Gee, Marvel does it again, dear reader…surprise surprise!”…because now it just feels redundant. It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that whatever the next Marvel flick is, odds are, it’s at least going to […]

A Quiet Place (2018)

Well, if ‘Jim’ from The Office wants to pursue a career behind the camera…he’s off to a good start with this one. John Krasinski steps up to plate for his first run as a feature film director and, in my opinion, knocks it out of the park with this $17 million post-apocalyptic thriller. I’d heard […]

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 […]