Going in Style is Ocean’s 11 for people in the AARP crowd. It is an amusing, quirky, lighthearted film with a stellar cast that is incredibly predictable, yet mildly enjoyable. Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals, Joe (Michael Caine), Albert (Alan Arkin), and Willie (Morgan Freeman), risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that is taking their money. The dynamic trio of…
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This weekend, the highly anticipated The Fate of the Furious comes out, the eighth (that’s right, eight!) film in the Fast and Furious franchise. The film is directed by F Gary Gray (The Italian Job (2003), Straight Outta Compton (2015)) and stars familiar faces Vin Diesel, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Jason Statham, Kurt Russell, and adds Charlize Theron as the villain. From watching the trailers, the movie is going to be just as…
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Throughout seven films, the Fast and Furious franchise has brought us some jaw-dropping moments and scenes. From exhilarating races, to badass fights, to physics-defying stunts, these movies know how to exhilarate us and put our jaws on the floor. So in honor of The Fate of the Furious coming out this week, here are my picks for the best Fast and Furious scenes. These aren’t just races, but scenes that made our hearts race. 5…
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I never really got into anime. I’ve dabbled in some Dragonball Z and seen some Hayao Miyazaki films, but that’s really it. I’ve heard of the beloved titles, like Akira and Cowboy Bebop, but again, never watched them. I heard about Ghost in the Shell and knew that it was one of the most beloved anime’s out there. No anime had been adapted into a live-action American film since the debacle that was Dragonball: Evolution (2009), so this was quite a gamble…
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I grew up watching the Power Rangers T.V. show and loving it. Sure the show was incredibly cheesy and terribly acted, but it was fun and I was watching it when it roughly five years old, an age where I only knew select shapes, numbers, and colors, so obviously this show was going to be my thing with my limited intelligence. As I grew up, I stopped hearing of the Rangers. I was aware that they continued…
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From the studio brought us animated gems like Shrek (2001), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), and Trolls (2016), comes The Boss Baby, an entertaining, fun, ridiculous flick that will slap a smile on your kid’s face for an hour and a half and yours for about 45 minutes. Alec Baldwin voices Boss Baby, a suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying baby who works for Baby Corp, a place where infants with adult-like minds work to preserve infant love everywhere. Boss Baby infiltrates the family…
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Not the strongest month for Netflix, but still got some good flicks coming. Here are my choices for the best movies coming to Netflix in April. You can see the full list of movies and shows coming to Netflix in April right here. 5 – DEAR WHITE PEOPLE: SEASON 1 (Justin Simien, 2017) Dear White People was an indie gem in 2014. A biting, socially relevant, authentically hilarious look at Africa-American culture in today’s college…
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We are officially done with the first quarter of the 2017 cinematic year and, surprisingly, it was a pretty solid start to the year, though not without its misses. Quarter two starts off with a decent month that features one of the most anticipated blockbusters of the year, but really highlights some true indie darlings. Here are my picks for the best movies coming out in April. 5 – FREE FIRE (Ben Wheatley, April…
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There is nothing special about Life. Everything that happens in this movie we have seen dozens of times before and done better each time. Even with its stellar cast, nothing in this movie is exciting, original, or scary, causing the movie to do an overall dud. The movie is about a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station that discover a rapidly evolving life form, that caused extinction on Mars, and now threatens the crew…
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The opening of CHiPs is a black screen with a warning on it that reads, “The California Highway Patrol does not promote this movie. At all.” Well, neither does this reviewer. CHiPs has a few parts that made me chuckle, but overall is an immature, uneven, unfunny action comedy. When aN F.B.I. agent (Michael Peña) goes undercover in the California Highway Patrol, he is teamed with a reckless, clumsy rookie (Dax Shepard) and the two work…
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