Category: Film Reviews (written)
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Hidden Figures – Box Office Review
Historical movies are always a tricky bunch. There’s the delicate balance of spending time on the actual story you want to tell against having so many facts that your story is convoluted with information not necessarily relevant to the story at hand. What’s important to the plot versus what’s just…
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A Monster Calls – Box Office Review
This film was based on a book I didn’t read. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I walked into the theater but the trailer was promising. I knew the basic premise would be a child’s imagination taking over to cope with the fact his mother is dying. So let’s…
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Underworld: Blood Wars – Box Office Review
A movie franchise typically has a shelf life but there are exceptions to the rule. Star Trek for example has been around long as a film franchise to have been ok, great, terrible and great. Star Wars also has shared that same arc, however as a Star Wars fan, I…
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La La Land – Box Office Review
The buzz surrounding this film was too good to ignore. Every twitter account and Facebook page that mentioned this film did so with high praise. Is it always a good idea to believe media hype? Nope. Is it worth taking the time to investigate for yourself? Occasionally, yes. So let’s…
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Why Him? – Box Office Review
When marketing gives you a concept of a film, or automobile or even delicious taco’s and all that was advertised turns out to be true… well that’s a good day. The marketing for this next movie was as true and honest as could be. What you see is what you…
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Passengers – Box Office Review
Occasionally, there comes a film that is not at all what the trailers described. It’s not often that you watch a trailer and then see the movie and leave the theater thinking, “The trailers sure did mislead me.” There’s moments in trailers that don’t make the final cut of the…
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Collateral Beauty – Box Office Review
Films that manage to not only strike at your heart, but also your mind, your fears, desires and pull emotion from your own personal experience are cinematic magic. For a movie to run this gambit is precisely the reason that cinema is an art form because a good story invokes…
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Review
This is the 8th film in the Star Wars Franchise. In typical Star Wars fashion, this film was made out of order of the rest of the series. First, we received episode 4 in 1977 (A New Hope) followed by episode 5 in 1980 (Empire Strikes Back) and then Episode…
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Fences – Box Office Review
Sometimes the transition from stage to screen isn’t always the right choice. What works in live theater is not necessarily going to translate onto the big screen. Movies put emphasis on the most minuscule details where some of those details can be missed when you’re seated 20 rows back in…
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Allied – Box Office Review
It’s officially the season for those dramatic films that are shooting for the glory of “Oscar” winner. We are treated to the best character pieces that examine what it means to be human in certain scenarios and challenges us to examine our thoughts and feelings on the topic. Would we…
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