The Mouse King reinvents a holiday classic, minus the romance and much of the dance, resulting in a movie with little beneath its stunningly designed surface. Conceived just a smidge over two centuries ago, E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” has been told and retold so many times over the […]
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In his Oscar nominated performance as Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp swanned through the first Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) with enough wicked zest to make you forget the film was a bloated crock. The flab extends to the overlong (two hours and thirty minutes) sequel, but mostly in the dawdling setup. A pirate could braid his […]
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Guy Ritchie’s adaptation is lively, colourful and genuinely funny – making only judicious tweaks to the original, it’s thankfully not a whole new world. The scimitars are out for Disney’s live-action Aladdin, what with the enduring fondness for the original (not least Robin Williams’ Genie) and the botched unveiling of Will Smith as his successor […]
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Tonight I went and saw the much anticipated “Avengers: Endgame,” which came out six days ago. All I can say they must have saved the best for the end. Richard Roeper said in his review, “I’m not prepared to instantly label “Avengers: Endgame” as the best of the 23 Marvel Universe movies to date, but it’s […]
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Just a little over a year ago, many of us marveled at the impressive manner in which Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 concluded its momentous film series. A popular children’s franchise, after some awkward first steps, had grown up and into a dark, twisted epic and concluded with breathtaking finality, its young actors […]
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Tonight I went and saw “Captain Marvel,” which came out a little over three weeks ago, and I will let you know what I thought about it. The basic story is a soldier named Vers (Brie Larson) is training to fight a war with Kree leader Yon-Rogg (Jude Law). She then gets kidnapped and questioned […]
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Guess what everyone? I went and saw “Creed II,” which came out three days ago, this morning with my brother. Tonight, I will let everyone know what I thought about it. The amount of legacy is high over “Creed II.” Not only for most of the characters, who must come to terms with their own […]
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Blade Runner 2049
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Finally, I have gone and seen “Aquaman,” which came out four weeks ago, and now I will let everyone know what I thought about it. Graeme Tuckett started her review out by admitting, “I walked out of 2017’s needlessly tedious Justice League into a frigid northern winter night thinking Jason Momoa’s Aquaman and Ezra Miller’s Flash […]
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James Franco and John Lithgow star in director Rupert Wyatt’s prequel. Some old potion is served up in a reasonably spiffy new bottle in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Resurrecting a lucrative franchise for another go-round 43 years after Charlton Heston first found himself on the short end of the evolutionary pyramid, Fox has wisely steered […]
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