Category: action

  • “Jungle Cruise” Movie Review

    “Jungle Cruise” Movie Review

    Dr. Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt) is seeking funding to travel to the Amazon to find an elusive tree thought to have flowers that will be able to be used as medicine to cure all ills. If she can find this tree, while it is flowering, she believes she can change the world…for the good. Unfortunately,…

  • “The Ice Road” Movie Review

    “The Ice Road” Movie Review

    After knocking out a fellow trucker for making fun of his brother (who has a brain injury from the war) Gurty (Marcus Thomas), Mike (my hero, Liam Neeson) and his brother…..both lose their jobs. A diamond mine in Canada has a horrific methane explosion that kills 8 miners and traps 26. The trapped miners have…

  • “Black Widow” Movie Review

    “Black Widow” Movie Review

    Ohio 1995 A normal family living the good life in Ohio. Two girls, Natasha and Yelena are happy and well adjusted. Both parents, Melina (Rachel Weisz) and Alexei (David Harbour) are working and seem to be enjoying their suburban life. Until one night when Alexei announces that the big adventure the girls have been expecting…..is…

  • “Thunder Force” Movie Review

    “Thunder Force” Movie Review

    When Emily Stanton (Octavia Spencer) was in middle school, she lost her parents during an attack by the evil super-powered miscreants. Emily knew her parents (both Ph.D. geneticists) were close to developing a serum to help good people gain super-powers, to balance out the miscreants. Emily made it her mission in life to continue their…

  • “Honest Thief” Movie Review

    “Honest Thief” Movie Review

    Army veteran and demolitions expert, Tom Dolan (Liam Neeson, was honorably discharged 9 years ago. In the last 8 years, he has robbed 12 banks and stolen a total of just over $9 million. Looking for a storage location while he moves, Tom meets Annie Wilkins (Kate Walsh) and falls madly in love. One year…

  • “Cruella” Movie Review

    “Cruella” Movie Review

    “Cruella” is a live action prequel to the 1961 animated “One Hundred and One Dalmations” and the 1996 live action “101 Dalmations”. This movie tells the story of how Cruella became the evil……Cruella De Vil. All her life, Cruella, errr, Estella, (Emma Stone) had the urge to be a mean girl. A genius with a…

  • Marvel Celebrates the Movies

    Marvel Celebrates the Movies

    Here is a pretty awesome trailer released May 3, 2021 for Phase 4 of the Marvel Universe. Included in this trailer is the first, very quick, look at the “Eternals” starring….Dinesh (for all us “Silicon Valley” fans). And….oh, yeah…..Awkwafina is here too….and a bunch of other lesser known people (Scarlett Johansson, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie,…

  • “The New Mutants” Movie Review

    “The New Mutants” Movie Review

    We watched this again last night, June 22, 2024, and it is still a fun, if scary, movie. STREAM it on Disney+. After being the only survivor of a horrific “tornado”, Dani Moonstar (Blu Hunt), wakes up to find herself in a hospital handcuffed to a bed. Dr. Reyes (Alice Braga) sees her stirring via…

  • Movie Review: “Bend It Like Beckham”

    Movie Review: “Bend It Like Beckham”

    Jess (Parminder Nagra) loves to play “football” (soccer) in the park with her friends, and she is REALLY good, in fact…..she is better than any of the guys she plays against, and is getting better. Jules (Keira Knightly) plays on a women’s football team and one day happens to see Jess kicking some soccer ass…