Review: ‘Kickboxer: Retaliation’, Throwback Action In A Dynamite Sequel
Kickboxer: Retaliation, a sequel to 2016's surprisingly good Kickboxer: Vengeance, opens with a conceit so ridiculous it's perfect for the revival of a Jean-Claude...
Review: ‘Interceptor’Elsa Pataky Kicks Nuclear Terrorist Butt In Netflix's Solid Summer Action Flick
In the opening moments of Netflix's latest summer action flick, Interceptor, we are breathlessly (for a bunch of narrative captions, anyway) informed of the two...
Review: ‘Wrath Of Man’Jason Statham Is A Force For Vengeance In Guy Ritchie's Dark,...
Man, I didn't realize how much I missed Guy Ritchie/Jason Statham movies until we got them again! The careers of both really had a...
Review: ‘Little Monsters’, Lupita Nyong’o Is Bloody Great As A Zombie-Fighting Schoolteacher
*NOTE: This is an edited reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
The Sundance promo image for horror-comedy Little Monsters features a blood-stained...
Review: ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’The Irish Eyes Aren't Smiling On Emily Blunt And Jamie Dornan...
So many cliches. So many awful Irish accents, including one from a genuine Irishman. John Patrick Shanley's Wild Mountain Thyme, an adaptation of his...
Review: ‘Blue Bayou’Justin Chon Brings Attention To A Hot-Button Issue With Hard-Hitting Immigrant Love...
"I chose you", Antonio LeBlanc (writer/director/star Justin Chon) tells his stepdaughter Jessie (Sydney Kowalske) in Chon's third feature, his most dramatic and confident work...
Review: ‘Sonic The Hedgehog 2’A Messy Sequel That Still Delivers Fast Action, More Jokes,...
If Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is truly the big goodbye for veteran comic actor Jim Carrey, then I'm okay with that. His Dr. Robotnik/Eggman...
Review: ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’LeBron James And Bugs Bunny Take The Court For...
What is it that you really remember about Space Jam in 1996? For me, it's not a Hell of a lot. I remember His...
Review: ‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio’A Masterful Work Of Art That Gives The Classic Story...
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio has been a long time coming. Del Toro has been trying to make this movie for fifteen years, and thank...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘All My Puny Sorrows’Alison Pill And Sarah Gadon Breathe Life Into...
There are irreconcilable differences, and then there is what sisters Yoli (Alison Pill) and Elf (Sarah Gadon) face in Michael McGowan's sobering, but somewhat...