Category: Movie Reviews

  • “Big Eyes” Movie Review

    “Big Eyes” Movie Review

     (Fascinating) Margaret (Amy Adams) left her first marriage with her daughter, Jane (Delaney Raye & Madeleine Arthur), and moved to San Francisco. All she brought with them was a car trunk full of her paintings and some clothes. In San Francisco, she met Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), a superficial salesman and marketer posing as an…

  • “Black or White” Movie Review

    “Black or White” Movie Review

    (Emotional) Elliot (Kevin Costner) and Carol (Jennifer Ehle) Anderson adopt their 17 year old daughter’s baby after she dies during childbirth. The father, Reggie (Andre Holland), is a drug addict with no interest in raising the child. Seven years later, Carol dies in a car crash (Drive Safe!) leaving Elliot to raise Eloise (Jillian Estell)…

  • Movie Review: “RV”

    Movie Review: “RV”

    Bob Munro (Robin Williams) is planning to take his family to Hawaii for vacation. Unfortunately, stuff happens at work that forces him to cancel Hawaii and, instead, plan a vacation (with a secret agenda to attend an important work meeting) to Colorado in an R.V. In the R.V. and travelling across country, the Munro’s meet…

  • Top 25 Movies in the Box Office for 2016

    Top 25 Movies in the Box Office for 2016

    Grabbed this list of the top box office hits from 2016 from IMDb….hope they don’t mind. 🙂  Go to IMDb for more information. 1. Finding Dory (2016) PG | 97 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy 7.5 Rate this 77 Metascore The friendly but forgetful blue tang fish begins a search for her long-lost parents, and…

  • “Paddington” Movie Review

    “Paddington” Movie Review

    40 years ago an explorer from a geographic society in London visits the jungles of Peru in search of species he can kill and bring home to stuff for the Natural Museum. What he finds are intelligent bears that are quite cultured, can speak, wear clothing, and learn how to make marmalade. The explorer tells…

  • “Gone Baby Gone” Movie Review

    “Gone Baby Gone” Movie Review

     (Twisty Thriller) Helene McCready (Amy Ryan) tells everyone she visited her neighbor for about 30 minutes after putting her baby Amanda (Madeline O’Brien) to bed. When she returned home, Amanda was gone. Kidnapped. Helene’s sister-in-law freaked out and called the police, the news outlets, and eventually she and her husband hired local native and private…

  • Movie Review: “McFarland, USA”

    Movie Review: “McFarland, USA”

    Jim White (Kevin Costner) is coaching football in a high school in Idaho when he lost his temper with a disrespectful kid. The next thing we see is Jim’s family packing up to leave. He had been fired. Arriving in McFarland, CA, one of his daughters wakes up and asks if they are in Mexico.…

  • “Pixels” Movie Review

    “Pixels” Movie Review

     (Attack of the Pac Man) In 1982, Brenner (Adam Sandler) and Will Cooper (Kevin James) head to the opening of a new gaming arcade at the mall. Brenner is a natural at Pac Man, while Will is great picking things up with the crane.They befriend the much younger Ludlow (Josh Gad) a gamer and conspiracy…

  • “Sisters” Movie Review

    “Sisters” Movie Review

    (Two Adult Sisters Need to Grow Up) Maura Ellis (Amy Poehler) and Kate Ellis (Tina Fey) are adult aged sisters who have not quite grown up. Upon hearing the news that their parents, Bucky (James Brolin) and Deana (Dianne Wiest), are selling the family home, the two sisters kinda freak out. While they clean up…