Category: Movie Reviews

“The Water Horse” Movie Review

Two travelers in Scotland enter a restaurant / bar and meet an old man. This old man overhears them saying how the picture on the wall of the Loch Ness monster is fake news. He asks if they want to hear a story……they do. Many years ago…… Angus MacMorrow (Alex Etel) is collecting seafood in…

March 9, 2019
“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” Movie Review

Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and Astrid (America Ferrera) lead their band of misfits, including Toothless, on raids to save captured dragons. They are very successful in their rescue attempts, but by bringing the rescued dragons back to dragon / human utopia, Berk, they are causing security issues that concerns the Vikings. Berk is becoming too well…

March 6, 2019
“Dumplin” Movie Review and Trailer

Rosie (Jennifer Aniston) was a beauty queen when she was younger, and now runs the Bluebonnet Beauty Pageant in Texas. This work keeps her very busy. Rosie’s daughter, Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald), also known as “Dumplin”, grows up with her aunt, Lucy (Hilliary Begley), who instills a love of life and Dolly Parton in Willowdean. When…

March 2, 2019
Movie Review: “The Commuter”

Ex-NYPD cop, Michael MacCauley (Liam Neeson) has been commuting by train, to his insurance sales job, from Tarrytown, NY to New York City everyday for the last 10 years. Same train to work, same train back home. Day after day after day after day……ho-hum. The life of a commuter. At least he reads decent books.…

February 23, 2019
“Alita: Battle Angel” Movie Review

Dr. Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) was walking thru the scrapheap when he came across the head and chest of a long ago discarded cyborg. Checking the cyborg with his monitors, he finds that the human brain was still alive, just in suspended animation. Back in the office / lab, Dr. Ido attaches the cyborg head…

February 20, 2019
“Beautiful Boy” Movie Review

Nic Sheff (Timothee Chalamet) has a drug problem. A much worse drug problem than his father, David (Steve Carell), knew or wanted to admit. Learning as much as he could about drugs, their effects on the body, and how he can help his son, David tries for years to help. But Nic keeps slipping back…

February 16, 2019
“The Man Who Invented Christmas” Movie Review

Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) has been having a hard time writing after the success of “Oliver Twist”. He is “blocked”. Try as he might, life, family, and monetary stress are getting to him and he can’t seem to imagine the characters for this new Christmas book he is trying to write. (A Christmas Carol) One…

February 9, 2019
“Bumblebee” Movie Review & Trailer

Taking place in 1987, “Bumblebee” is a prequel to the Transformers series. The Decepticons have defeated the Autobots on Cybertron. The only hope for the Autobots is to flee and regroup at a later date. Optimus Prime sends B-127 to an out of the way, relatively unknown, planet to hide and wait for the rebuilding…

February 6, 2019
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri” Movie Review and Trailer

Mildred (Frances McDormand) is tired of waiting for the local police to solve the rape and murder of her daughter 7 months prior. She takes $5,000 of her hard earned money and buys advertising space on three billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri. The billboards go viral and the whole town of Ebbing, most especially the…

February 2, 2019