Movie Reviews

MDFF 2022 – Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters

Directed by Jim Demonakos & Kevin Konrad Hanna Starring Neil Gaiman , Rebecca Sugar, Guillermo del Toro, Patton Oswalt Score 6/6 A feature length documentary about Mike Mignola and the creation of his comic book universe centered around Hellboy. Going into this I had no real clue who Mike Mignola was and yes, I have…

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Director Deborah Chow Starring Ewan McGregor, Vivien Lyra Blair & Moses Ingram Rated M Score 3/6 Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi watches over young Luke Skywalker and evades the Empire’s elite Jedi hunters during his exile on the desert planet Tatooine. The sixth episode of Obi Wan Kenobi has finally dropped and it would seem that…

L’Arroseur Arrosé – The Oldest Known Comedy

5/6. Directed by Louis Lumière and starring François Clerc a (Clerc who played the Gardener who got sprayed in the face was actually Lumière’s gardener) and Benoît Duval. For those of you who don’t know Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and…

The 355

Director Simon Kinberg Starring Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o & Bingbing Fan Rated M Score 3/6 When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild card CIA agent joins forces with three international agents on a lethal mission to retrieve it, while staying a step ahead of a mysterious woman who’s tracking their…

Airheads

Director Michael Lehmann Starring Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi & Adam Sandler Rated M Score 4/6 Three band members hoping for a big break head to a radio station to play their demo tape and wind up holding everyone hostage with plastic guns when the head D.J. refuses to play them. Sticking with what might seem…

Down Periscope – Revisited

Director David S. Ward Stars Kelsey Grammar, Lauren Holly & Rob Schneider Rating M Score 3.5/6 Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge is assigned as Captain to the USS Stingray, an old diesel driven submarine that has seen better days with a crew of Navy misfits. From what I can tell it has been ten years since…

Top Gun: Maverick

Director Joseph Kosinski Starring Tom Cruise Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller Rated M Score 6/6 After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. “Nostalgia movies” are…

Tin Man

Directed by Nick Willing Staring Zooey Deschanel, Allan Cumming, Neal McDonough & Richard Dreyfuss Rating PG Score 6/6 Set in the spirit of L. Frank Baum’s classic, the “Tin Man” follows the adventures of DG, a waitress and part-time student, as she travels through the mystical world of “The O. Z. (Outer Zone)”, discovering her…

Jersey Shore Shark Attack

Director John Shepphird Stars Jack Scalia, Jeremy Luke, Joseph Russo Rated MA Score 0/6 Trouble encircles Seaside Heights, NJ as once more, intense drilling vibrations coming from the town’s new beach resort attract a swarm of deadly sharks who crave human flesh. Under those circumstances, the sheriff’s son, TC, and his friends, who bear an…

Battleship & American Warships

Battleship Director Peter Berg Starring Taylor Kitsch,  Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker & Liam Neeson Rated M Score 4/6 American Warships Director Thunder Levin Stars Mario Van Peebles, Carl Weathers & Johanna Watts Rated TV-14 Score 1/6 I wish I could say that there was a rational train of thought behind the decision of watching Battleship…