Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Now an unforeseen trilogy that was started by Oscar-winning auteur Steven Soderbergh with Magic Mike (2012) quickly became an unexpected sleeper hit during that summer movie season. It suddenly generated [...]
80 for Brady
If you've seen any recent National Football game, you've likely been bombarded with ads of the film starring four screen legends, Lilly Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field [...]
Shotgun Wedding
Since the release of the critical and commercial 2019 hit Hustlers that found star Jennifer Lopez horrifically snubbed of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination, the hope would be that [...]
The Son
Films portraying characters with mental illness are a common occurrence. While often clumsy in such portrayals in the past, writers and directors have, on the whole, gotten better over time [...]
Plane
Gerard Butler has managed to carve out a successful path for himself as one of Hollywood’s few remaining action stars still selling tickets at the box office. While most have [...]
Emancipation
The deplorable history of slavery in the United States has been the focus of many films over the years. The films have been of varying quality, and there have also [...]
Empire of Light
Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes pays tribute to the cinema in Empire of Light, a film of lofty themes that doesn't necessarily ring true or capture the depth that it's aiming [...]
On the Line
At first glance, radio doesn’t seem to be the most dynamic world to base a film in. It’s a world of stationary voices, with images filled in by the listener’s [...]
Ticket to Paradise
Ticket to Paradise is one of the broad romantic comedies we have all seen before. You know the kind like 50 First Dates, Couples Retreat, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall where [...]
Catherine Called Birdy
With miscalculated dry humor and unfunny banter that delivers so much low energy, filmmaker Lena Dunham burns through her biggest budget to date on her well-intentioned medieval satire titled Catherine [...]