Movie Reviews

Pacific Rim: Uprising

Director Steven S. DeKnight Starring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny Rated M Score 2/6 Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat. I wanted to be impressed with Uprising, but I wasn’t.…

Tomb Raider

Director Roar Uthaug Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins Rated M Score 4/6 Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. Alright we have yet another movie adapted from a computer game, and we all…

Loving Vincent

Director Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman Starring Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn & Robert Gulaczyk Rated M Score 6/6 In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there. Loving…

Bullet Head

Director Paul Soulet Starring John Malkovich, Adrien Brody, Antonio Banderas Rated MA Score 3/6 Three career criminals find themselves trapped in a warehouse with the law closing in and an even worse threat waiting inside – a nigh unstoppable killer dog. If you did not want to watch this one it would be perfectly understandable…

Black Panther

Director Ryan Coogler Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o Rated M Score 4/6 T’Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T’Challa’s father’s mistake. Alright I am finally over my…

Brawl in Cell Block 99

Director S. Craig Zahler Starring Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson & Udo Kier Rated R Score 3/6 A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly. I’ll admit it, I usually don’t watch a lot of movies starring Vince Vaughn. In the past he has struck me as the…

What Happened to Monday?

Director Tommy Wirkola Starring Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe Rated MA Score 5/6 In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.…

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

Director Sam Liu Starring Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Carpenter, Chris Cox Rated PG Score 4/6 In an alternative Victorian Age Gotham City, Batman begins his war on crime while he investigates a new series of murders by Jack the Ripper. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight is based on Gotham by Gaslight a DC Comics one-shot from 1989…

Molly’s Game

Director Aaron Sorkin Starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner Rated M Score 6/6 The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. This is based on a true story that you might not have heard about unless your one of…

Acts of Vengeance

Director Isaac Florentine Starring Antonio Banderas, Cristina Serafini, Atanas Srebrev Rated MA Score 2.5/6 A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge. I’m not that overly familiar with director Isaac Florentine’s work. What…