Isle Of Dogs
If you say “Isle Of Dogs” quickly, it sounds like you’re saying “I Love Dogs”. After someone clued me into that fact, I’ve been sure to say it slowly and […]
Thoroughbreds: Deeply Twisted, High Quality
There are very few movies I’ve seen that are more deeply twisted than THOROUGHBREDS, but that doesn’t stop it from being of very high quality from quite a few different […]
Out Of Africa (1985)
In climbing the Academy Award For Best Picture ladder over at Half Popped Reviews, I had reached the rung whereby Out Of Africa was standing in my way. Having seen […]
Terms of Lady Bird Endearment [A Combined Review]
Sometimes I get really lucky and, almost by accident, some of the movies I see in a given year have varying degrees of similarity. Without intentionally doing it this way, […]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – A Disappointing Episode 8 [NON-SPOILER Review]
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI is an entertaining movie. It’s perhaps more entertaining than its predecessor, THE FORCE AWAKENS. But in terms of being a “Star Wars” movie, it definitely […]
THOR: Ragnarok – Success Over Previous Failures
Has there ever been a movie which is the third in a series of movies which gets considerably higher praise than the first? Because THOR: RAGNAROK not only did that, […]
The Boss Baby: Funny, Not Terrible
Like a lot of people, when I first saw the trailers for THE BOSS BABY, I was fairly certain it was going to be terrible and not something I would […]
Miss Sloane: Blown Away By The 2016 Arcane Political Thriller
I’d venture to guess that unless you seek out the arcane films, you haven’t heard of the 2016 political thriller Miss Sloane. It was never available in two-thirds of the […]
Despicable Me 3
Usually when there’s a trilogy and the second movie isn’t very memorable, the third often follows suit, especially when it comes to animation. The SHREK trilogy and KUNG FU PANDA […]
The ONLY LIVING BOY In NEW YORK
While Baby Driver got the most marketing out of any 2017 film named after a Paul Simon song, the one which surprised me the most was THE ONLY LIVING BOY […]
