January 23, 2023

Star Wars

Rating: 5 of 5 lightsabers
Han shot first

January 22, 2023

Inheritance

Rating: 5 of 5 key lime pies
Creepy and scary thriller. You probably won’t see all the surprises coming, so no plot review. Good soundtrack, cinematography and acting all around.

January 5, 2023

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Rating: 4.5 of 5 Mr. Mustards in the conservatory
Didn’t make it through Knives Out, loved the actors, got really bored with the plot and writing. This take was entirely different, and very enjoyable. Nice social commentary worked in with a crime mystery. Liked the characters and acting, lots of subtle humor, great visuals.

January 3, 2023

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Rating: 5 of 5 talking crickets
Visually stunning, well acted, well paced, well told. An absolute joy to watch, from the opening scene to the credits. You know the basic story, del Toro’s follows the book, and is correspondingly darker, but not so dark children won’t enjoy it.

January 1, 2023

White Noise

Rating: 2 of 5 Plot changes
Some truly entertaining and inventive scenes, interspersed with a bogglingly incoherent plot, which is more a series of short stories, some of which work and some of which don’t. As a whole film, it was a confusing mess.

October 1, 2022

Lou

Rating: 4 of 5 Moms
Gritty drama, with a generally decent plot.A little cookie cutter, but not totally predictable. Got a little tired of the blue filtered Pacific Northwest visuals, but otherwise I liked it.

September 30, 2022

Hocus Pocus 2

Rating: 5 of 5 covens
A silly and fun romp, amazing it was 29 years since the original. Faithful to the first film, and safe viewing for kids.

September 25, 2022

Me Time

Rating: 0 of 4 Kevin Harts
Even stupider and more pointless than the trailer makes it look. That is all.

August 27, 2022

Moonfall

Rating: 2 of 5 falling moons
The moon is falling! No one knows why, but it is. And apparently, with like 3 days notice, we can slap together very old space technology to head up and see what’s going wrong. Or not. Or maybe, or not. We’ll tell you after the commercial break…That’s about it. Aside from the story, since there really isn’t much of one. The special effects were pretty good, giving it its 2 moons.

May 21, 2022

The Lost City

Rating: 3 of 5 Brad Pitts
A pretty fun ride. Preposterous plot, a twist on Romancing the Stone. Good chemistry with the actors. Not many surprises, but it’s more dark comedy than adventure. Harry Potter is evil. Channing Tatum is dumb. Sandra Bullock carries the rest of the film. Also, Brad Pitt is delightful.