Category: Movie Reviews

  • “Welcome to Me” Movie Review

    “Welcome to Me” Movie Review

    (Wacky, Weird, Quirky) – – Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig) has won $86 million in the lottery. She has borderline personality disorder and, since she is now rich, she stopped taking her meds and said goodbye to her psychiatrist. Alice wants to host a TV talk show.  But this is a talk show unlike any other…

  • “The Skeleton Twins” Movie Review

    “The Skeleton Twins” Movie Review

    (Suicidal Twins Reunite) – – Maggie Dean (Kristen Wiig) is just about to swallow a handful of pills when her cell phone rings. She answers it and finds out that her brother, Milo (Bill Hader), is in the hospital after slashing his wrists. Maggie travels to visit her brother even though the two of them…

  • “Woman in Gold” Movie Review

    “Woman in Gold” Movie Review

    (Golden) – – Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren) has just buried her sister. At the cemetery, she is talking to an old family friend when she finds out that the friend’s son is a lawyer who has fallen on hard times. Needing legal advice from someone she can trust, she asks her friend to connect them.…

  • “Taken 3” Movie Review

    “Taken 3” Movie Review

    (Particularly Skillful) – – Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) and Lenore St. John (Famke Janssen) want to get closer again. They are just waiting for Lenore to leave her current husband, Stuart St. John (Dougray Scott). Problem is…..Lenore is murdered before that can happen and Mills is the suspected murderer. With the cops and the Russian…

  • Movie Review: “Broken Flowers”

    Movie Review: “Broken Flowers”

    (Quirky, Quiet, Droll) – – Don Johnston’s (Bill Murray) latest girlfriend just walked out. But, Don takes this life changing event like he seems to take everything else: Quietly. In the foyer, there is a pink envelope among the incoming mail that his now ex-girlfriend thinks is from his current lover. Don opens it and…

  • “Ant-Man” Movie Review

    “Ant-Man” Movie Review

    (Amazing! Astounding! Avenger?) – – Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has just spent 3 years in San Quentin for a burglary. He has high hopes for getting a good job (after all he, like me, has a Masters in Electrical Engineering) and spending more time with his young daughter, Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson). The job he…

  • “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief” Movie Review

    “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief” Movie Review

    Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) loves the water and hates school.  He has recently transferred to a new school where his mother (Catherine Keener) hopes he will blossom. He does not.  But his friend, Grover (Bandon T. Jackson) is with him all the way. One day a substitute teacher is assigned to their class and they head…

  • “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life” Movie Review

    “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life” Movie Review

    – – An earthquake in Greece uncovers a long lost temple under the Mediterranean Sea. Adventurer Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie), investigates and finds that within the ruins lies an orb (from Alexander the Great) that provides directions to the long lost, and much feared, Pandora’s Box. Evil Nobel Prize winning scientist, Mance Rayder…..errrr, Jonathan Reiss…

  • Movie Review: “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider”

    Movie Review: “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider”

    (Exciting Action Thriller) – – Lady Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) practices fighting a robot in a simulated tomb in her house.  Because of the convergence of planets that only happens once every 5,000 years Lara will need all her skills. While sleeping one night as the convergence is just starting, she hears a ticking clock.…