Movie Reviews

        Tomb Raider features actual tomb raiding.  That alone is more than the Angelina Jolie films of the 2000’s accomplished.  But this new  Tomb Raider is actually a movie I thoroughly enjoyed.  This is a wildly entertaining and fun adventure flick and far and away the greatest video game adaptation ever. In the latest adaptation of the legendary video game series, Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) is an adventurous 21 year old with no focus in life.  After…

Love, Simon is a movie that I didn’t love.  I didn’t even really like it.  This is a movie that takes an interesting premise that adds too much fluff and non-sense that ruin everything that is good about it. The movie is about Simon (Nick Robinson), a high schooler with a pretty good life going for him, who has one big secret: he’s gay.  He hasn’t told any of his friends or family and his secret…

        Gringo is a complicated movie about a simple guy.  It isn’t complicated in a confusing way, the movie is just an utter mess with too many plots and characters, which is a shame due to the talent in the movie. Harold (David Oyelowo) is a kind man who follows all the rules.  All he wants in his life is to be happy.  But that isn’t the life Harold has.  He works…

    Watching A Wrinkle in Time was one of the most frustrating experiences I’ve had at the movies in a long, long time.  Based on the critically acclaimed book and being backed by Disney, the film boasts a stellar cast and is directed by the great Ava DuVernay, who was given a large budget for the first time in her career.  This had the makings of something special. But something special it is not.  A Wrinkle in…

        While watching The Strangers: Prey at Night, a woman behind me kept jumping and gasping at nearly every scene and at one point said to the person next to her, “I don’t want to watch this movie anymore.”  This essentially summarizes the feelings I had while watching the movie.  Only I wasn’t scared, I was bored and annoyed. In this sequel that nobody asked for, a dysfunctional family spends the night in…

      Red Sparrow is a classic spy movie.  It is a slow burning, twisty movie about government secrets, secret agents, and double crossing.  This isn’t your Jason Bourne or your Ethan Hunt movies, this is a dirty, gritty movie that requires your to pay attention because you never know who is playing who. After a career-ending injury, a ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where…

      A game night will bring your favorite people together to eat, drink, and play a number of different games.  It is an activity that isn’t about the games at hand, but more about spending time with the friends you care about.  That is exactly what Game Night is.  It is a movie who’s central plot is fun, with a number of different genres and stories thrown in, but a film that focuses on the…

    Alex Garland’s directorial debut, Ex-Machina, is one of the best science fiction movies of this decade and an incredibly impressive directorial debut.  It is always hard to follow a masterpiece, as there is now a level of expectation that is usually hard to repeat, let alone twice in a row. With Annihilation, Garland shows he’s a real deal director, though fails to capture the originality, intensity, and brilliance of Ex-Machina.  The movie is a visual…

Black Panther is the eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it is unlike any that they have come out with before.  Unlike most Marvel movies, this is a movie that is it’s own animal (pun?).  Director Ryan Coogler has made something truly special. In the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, Prince T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is about to become the King of Wakanda while still doubling as the Black Panther.  His first act as king…

      Dakota Johnson and Dumbface, sorry, Jamie Dornan, are back for the third and final (THANK THE FUCKING LORD!!) film in the Fifty Shades series, Fifty Shades Freed, far and away the worst of the series and in the running for the worst movie of the decade. During the movie, my girlfriend, with whom I saw the movie with, asked me what time it was and I told her the movie had only been going on…