Movie Reviews

        As a mysterious family stands at the foot of the driveway of the Wilson’s summer home, Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke), the father of the family, stands near the front door yelling for them to leave to no avail.  He then goes inside and grabs a metal baseball bat and starts pounding the bat in the palm of his hand yelling, “If you wanna get crazy, we can get crazy!” and boy,…

        The last time we saw the Avengers, half of them were turning into dust after Thanos snapped his fingers and eliminated half of all the living beings in the galaxy.  In one of the post-credit sequences following Avengers: Infinity War, we saw Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) watch chaos and pandemonium go down around him and he immediately orders the Code Red, and proceeds to take out a communication device and…

      Alita: Battle Angel is a movie that chooses style over substance, which isn’t always a bad thing.  I don’t mind a good piece of mindless entertainment.  I love the Fast and Furious franchise, I love a good amount of Michael Bay films, and the Marvel movies don’t exactly get the mental-wheels turning, but they’re awesome.  Why do I love these films so much?  They’re fun!  They are a blast of entertainment, filled with glorious…

      Glass is the final chapter in the unexpected superhero trilogy from M. Night Shyamalan, following 2001’s Unbreakable and 2017’s Split.  The fact that this trilogy exists is one of cinema’s great surprises, as nobody expected Split to be part of the Unbreakable universe.  With Unbreakable focusing on the rise of our protagonist, David Dunn (Bruce Willis), and Split focusing on the birth of our villain, The Horde (James McAvoy), the two are now pitted against each other thanks to Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson).  The…

2017 was an interesting year for the DC Extended Universe, or whatever this cinematic universe is called. Wonder Woman was a gigantic success and easily the best movie in the universe. Then Justice League came out, a film that was supposed to be one of the biggest movies ever made, bringing together all the legendary heroes of DC comics, and that film crashed and burned and barely exists now. The DCEU was in a cinematic limbo of…

There is one word and one word only to describe Mary Poppins Returns: delightful.  As soon as you hear Lin Manuel Miranda sing “(Underneath the) Lovely London Sky” on the cobblestone streets of London, you are immediately transported back to Robert Stevenson’s original 1964 film, smacking a cheek-to-cheek smile that doesn’t leave until you leave the theater. Making a sequel over 50 years from the first film is a very Hollywood idea, especially in this current age…

One of the things I try to do as a film critic is keep an open mind during all movies.  There are critics and other film personalities that I follow that see movies before I do and post their reviews or thoughts, which I of course read.  I try my best to not let their opinion set a certain expectation before I even see the movie. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a movie that took the…

It was impossible for me not to be hyped about Creed II.  For one, it’s another Rocky film, a franchise that I love dearly.  I also loved Creed, which I ranked my number one movie of 2015 and think it is one of the finest films of the decade.  But most of my excitement for Creed II came from the fact that it featured Viktor Drago, the son of Ivan Drago, the infamous villain from Rocky IV, a Cold War film that…

        Going into Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, I had forgotten nearly everything that happened in the first film, Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them.  I remember enjoying the film quite a bit, though.  I liked that it was part of the wizarding world that was introduced in the Harry Potter films, but also liked that it was set in America, away from Hogwarts.  It immersed us more into the world as a whole…