Movie Reviews

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I'm a Harry Potter fan. From the books and audiobooks (I've listened to both the Jim Dale and Stephen Fry recordings) to the eight movie franchise to the enormous Potterverse of ancillary products, it's hard not to have had The Boy Who Lived influence the last few...

One of the more peculiar concepts to catch the zeitgeist of modern culture is the multiverse. The concept that there are an infinite number of alternative realities, some almost indistinguishable from our own, and others quite different, serves as the conceptual...

In an unnamed Central American city, local businessman Maurice Leprince (Jean Servais) is loved by everyone. He's running for a government position and is clearly going to win as he's far more popular than anyone else on the ballot. But is he really as clean and...

Back in 2007, the underappreciated film Spider-Man 3 tackled a rather profound topic in its action hero narrative: What are our responsibilities to our fellow humans? In that context, it was about Spiderman, the wise-cracking costumed superhero, versus meek Peter...

I really wanted to like this movie. The video game franchise upon which it's built is terrific, Tom Holland, our hero, is charismatic and entertaining, and I love globe-trotting action films with a hint of history in the vein of Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider. But the...

While it wasn't a great film overall, I still look at 2005's The Island as one of director Michael Bay's most thoughtful movies. The story revolves around a group of people in a futuristic underground community who don't realize that they're clones, awaiting organ...

Some movies have the ability to pull you right into the story, offering a cinema vérité slice of life so realistic that you never stop to think about the mechanics of the film. They aren't actors going through a script, with microphones hanging overhead, cameras in...

Ray Marsh (Michael Weaver) is a pleasant enough fellow, the host of a popular travel show who has decided that a visit to the farthest northern reaches of the Norwegian Fjords is perfect for his next episode. He's brought his exhausted producer Alan (Tim Griffin)...

A spy thriller that combines great action sequences with an engaging story, exotic locations, and attractive protagonists? What's not to love with the new action film "The 355"? Well, almost everything, unfortunately. The story revolves around what we in the film biz...

There are a very small number of movies that have had a profound impact upon our culture, jumping immediately to the status of cult classic or, in some instances, genre classic. The Matrix, released in 1999, was just such a hit, a film that turned actor Keanu Reeves...

I'd be lying if I said I completely understood the wild and entertaining Chinese action film Schemes in Antiques, but I enjoyed it quite a bit nonetheless. It's an action film about two antiques experts who compete to solve a series of obscure puzzles and riddles to...

When Kingsman: The Secret Service premiered in 2014, it was a sleeper hit. A wry, self-aware take on James Bond and the spy genre, it starred agent Eggsy Unwin (Taron Egerton) as a disaffected young man recruited by a secret, independent spy agency secretly run out of...

Emerging as a seer of the hippie generation, author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. has had quite an impact on Western, and particularly American culture. I remember reading and being fascinated by many of his works, notably Slaughterhouse-Five Or The Children's Crusade and Cat's...

Can places trap evil spirits and thereby become not just haunted, but dangerous? Quite a lot of people believe that they can and therein lies the basis of the haunted house, a motif that appears endlessly in horror and thriller movies. Certainly, if something evil has...

There's a classic episode of the TV series The Twilight Zone called "A World Of His Own" where a playwright causes people in his life to disappear by destroying audio recordings wherein he describes them. It turns out that the world he inhabits is one he has created...