Alicia Vikander is taking over Angelina Jolie’s iconic role of Lara Croft, and she more than does it justice. Lara’s Dad has been missing for many years, but she refuses to take the inheritance and step into his shoes, believing that he’ll be back one day. Working as a courier to make money, the job …
The life of an assistant is not glamorous. Running errands, getting food on the snap of a finger, and just being there for every need of your boss…all at the risk of getting fired when they get bored. Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell) are working in the same building, as the assistants for …
On the continuing quest for 1,000 Netflix comes a comedy featuring Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love), Vanessa Bayer (SNL), and Phoebe Robinson (a writer on Portlandia). Harper (Jacobs) is sent to Spain for work, to help “woo” some new clients for the media marketing company she works at. Her two best friends (Bayer and Robinson) buy their own …
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie is one of the classic books that everyone is supposed to read…editors note, I never got past the third chapter. And the bore I discovered in those pages, transferred right on over to the big screen. Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) can spot what’s wrong from a mile …
Adam Sandler has a contract with Netflix, and as they get released, they get better and better. It started with the terrible The Ridiculous 6, and then turned into typical Sandler movies with The Do-Over and Sandy Wexler. But as they get better we get Sandler teaming up with Chris Rock for a fantastic comedy. Long …
As we prepare to enter May, it’s time to look ahead to the best movies to expect this summer!! (Or at least the ones I’m most interested in) Deadpool 2 – May 18 Deadpool changed the Marvel world, by allowing the movies to be R-Rated and dirty and still raking in millions of $$. This …
The music is there from the moment it starts, kind of like how La La Land did, and young PT Barnum clearly always wanted to be entertaining. Growing up in poverty, wanting the love of a rich girl who he just couldn’t have, and when PT (Hugh Jackman) grew up he came back and swept her …
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi has finally come out on DVD, which means I’ve gotten a chance to watch it…and learn what a terribly boring storyline it is. <There will be spoilers in this post. Sorry/Not Sorry!> General Leia (Carrie Fisher) leads her rebellion army, with Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and BB-8 in …
The last animated movie I saw, Coco, was one of the best I’ve seen it years, so Ferdinand would have a hard time living up to it…but it made a really good effort of getting there. From a young age Ferdinand wasn’t like the other bulls…while they were all headbutting with their freshly grown horns, …
The latest (and last?) Pitch Perfect movie is an entertaining watch, but definitely not the best of the trilogy. The music, as always, is on-point, with a great variety of songs, and they do most of them justice. But they forced a riff-off into this movie, and while it did add musical instruments to the …
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