Movie Reviews

With horror master James Wan as a producer and a couple of great trailers, Lights Out looked like it could rival The Conjuring 2 as the horror movie of the summer.  But apparently when the lights go out in Lights Out, so do the scares, as this turns from potential scarefest to a boring mess. Lights Out follows a family who is being terrorized by a demon who only appears in the dark and they must figure out a…

Before the summer movie season started, I listed Star Trek Beyond number one on my list of Potential Busts this summer.  The trailers didn’t look great, J.J Abrams left the director’s chair and replacing him was Justin Lin, who’s only good films were Fast Five (2011) and Fast 6 (2013). I don’t like admitting when I’m wrong, but I will here.  Star Trek Beyond is far from a bust.  It’s not a perfect movie, but it is an extremely entertaining…

Paul Fieg’s Ghostbusters is the most divisive movie of 2016 and it all happened before it even came out.  After the first trailer became the most disliked video on YouTube, tons of internet trolls bashed the film, claiming it a bad before anybody ever saw it. Well trolls, I have one thing to say to you.  Suck it!  Ghostbusters is pure awesomeness.  A worthy reboot with a cool plot, tons of comedy, a great cast, and exciting action….

The summer 2016 movie season has been a solid one, but the one thing it has been missing is a great comedy.  The best one we got so far was The Nice Guys, but that movie had a body count as high as its laugh count.  It needed one that was as fun as it was funny.  With Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, we finally got the comedy that we needed this summer.  It is a…

The Secret Life of Pets just shows how brilliant Pixar is.  No, Pixar did not make the film.  Illumination Entertainment, the company behind the Despicable Me series, did, and you can tell they don’t have the same think tank Pixar has.  This isn’t to say The Secret Life of Pets is a bad movie, because it’s not.  But, after a great marketing campaign and a solid voice cast behind the film, the movie is cute and sometimes…

Here’s the great thing about Steven Spielberg:  No matter what genre he does, it’s always a Spielberg movie.  Whether he does a war movie, a science fiction movie, a kid friendly movie, or a holocaust movie, each film has the Spielberg touch.  Other directors struggle with this, but Spielberg does not.  His latest film, The BFG, is no different.  After making two historical, methodical films in Lincoln (2012) and Bridge of Spies (2015), Spielberg went a little lighter and a…

I absolutely hated The Purge (2013).  It was a unique idea, but it failed miserably on all fronts.  Never in my mind did I think it would get a sequel, let alone a trilogy, but here we are, because fuck it, why not?  The Purge: Anarchy took the series into a totally different direction, making it more of an action-horror film.  It was a better movie than the first, but that isn’t saying much.  That’s essentially…

Nothing screams summer movies quite like necrophilia and cannibalism, am I right?  No?  Well apparently it does to Nicolas Winding Refn.  The Neon Demon is a Tinseltown horror film.  It takes us deep into the underbelly of the modeling world and shows us a dark, twisted side that is filled with lies, deceit, blood, and glitter. When aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves to Los Angeles searching for fame, her innocence and vitality disappears as she…

If Jaws (1975), 127 Hours (2010), and Sharknado (2013) had a messy threesome, the end result would be The Shallows.  This is a relentless, roller-coaster ride in the ocean that starts off very interesting and suspenseful but takes a wild left turn into absurdity and unintentional hilarity. Blake Lively stars as Nancy, a surfer who is attacked by a great white shark while ripping a wave.  She saves her self by swimming onto a rock 200 yards away from shore.  Nancy must use…

For a movie called Central Intelligence, the movie is incredibly stupid.  I understand that its intention is suppose to be a fun, mind-less action comedy, but it fails on all fronts.  It isn’t fun, it isn’t funny, and the plot far too complex for its own good and incredibly predictable. Kevin Hart stars as Calvin Joyner, a former high school hotshot who is now an unhappy accountant.  When former classmate, now C.I.A agent, Bob Stone (Dwayne…