Category: Movie Reviews

  • Movie Review: “Wedding Season”

    Movie Review: “Wedding Season”

    Sisters Asha (Pallavi Sharda) and Priya (Arianna Afsar) are slowly breaking with Indian traditions. For example, Priya is about to marry a “white guy” (who she is living with!), Nick (Sean Lleier), and Asha and Priya have confessed to us that they have snuck out of the house to watch R rated movies, party, and…

  • Movie Review: “Look Both Ways”

    Movie Review: “Look Both Ways”

    What if…….I did not go to the University of Kansas……where I met a professor who helped me land a job at AT&T Bell Labs after graduation……where I met Lori…….and the rest is history……at least, in this multiverse. Everyone has turning points in life and then at some point in their life they will look back…

  • Movie Review: “The Gray Man”

    Movie Review: “The Gray Man”

    I read the book…..go here to read my review. 18 Years Ago The Gray Man (Ryan Gosling) is an assassin recruited out of jail (for killing his father) by CIA director, Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton). Present Day On a mission to kill a dangerous target…..The Gray Man, aka, Six…..did not want to kill a little…

  • Movie Review: “Lightyear”

    Movie Review: “Lightyear”

    Space Rangers Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) and Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) wake up from stasis to land their spacecraft on a planet far far from home. Trying to get off that planet, the spaceship crashes, stranding Buzz and Alisha and the hundreds of sleeping scientists who now must all work together to fix the spaceship…

  • Movie Review: “Breaking News in Yuba County”

    Movie Review: “Breaking News in Yuba County”

    Sue Buttons (Allison Janney) has been ignored most of her life. No more so than now. At the grocery store to buy herself a birthday cake, her name is spelled “Suc” instead of Sue, and the folks in the store don’t give a shit. Walking in the door at home we find out that her…

  • Movie Review: “Hollywood Stargirl”

    Movie Review: “Hollywood Stargirl”

    After spending years in Mica, Arizona, Stargirl Caraway (Grace VanderWaal) and her (new) mother, Ana (Judy Greer), headed off for a new job for Ana, leaving all of Stargirl’s friends behind. See my review of “Stargirl” here. Several jobs later, Stargirl is tired of bouncing around and makes her mother promise her that they will…

  • Movie Review: “Mean Girls”

    Movie Review: “Mean Girls”

    Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) has spent her life in Africa where her parents were doing research. She was home-schooled. Now, the family situation has changed and Cady finds herself going to a public high school……and the transition is……interesting (to put it mildly). Not yet knowing about the politics of school, Cady meets, and becomes friends…

  • Movie Review: “House of Gucci”

    Movie Review: “House of Gucci”

    Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) was going to school to become a lawyer. One day, while he was at a party and standing behind the bar because he felt uncomfortable, Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) comes up to the bar and asks for a drink. What the heck, Maurizio, made her a drink and, some time later,…

  • Movie Review: “Jurassic World Dominion”

    Movie Review: “Jurassic World Dominion”

    In the past 4 years, since Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs have inhabited every corner of the world and are living in harmony (well….sometimes) with humans. As with everything, the greedy with money, in this case Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott) owner of BioSyn, has had his team (in particular, Dr. Henry Wu (BD Wong)) develop…