Category: Movie Reviews

(A-MAZE-ing Survival Story) – – Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) arrives, without his memory, in an enclosed wilderness surrounded by a wall that opens up in the morning into a maze and closes at night. Greeting Thomas are a number of boys some of whom have been here for 3 years.  They have learned to adapt to…

(Advice From the Heart) – – Cora (Brittany Snow) was raised in a religious family, but, started hanging out with an anti-religion group of miscreants. One night, with the group, Cora desecrated a statue of Mary and burned a church down. Unfortunately, she was the only one of the group that was caught, and even…

(Pacific Crest Trail Therapy) – – Cheryl Strayer (Reese Witherspoon) is battling some serious demons. One way to confront herself and those demons, she decides, is to hike over 1,000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail. 94 days later she finds herself and excises (hmmm, exercises?) her demons. The death of her mother (Laura Dern)…

(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…

(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…

(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.…

(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…