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NYCC Review: Batman: Return Of The Caped Crusaders Is Pure Fun
Title: Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders Director: Rick Morales Summary: Batman and Robin are back in action to take down their fiendish foes once again with original actors Adam West voicing Batman, Burt Ward voicing Robin, and Julie Newmar voicing Catwoman. The original 60’s Batman series was a bit beyond my time. I’ve watched […]
Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Doesn’t Quite Mesh
Title: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Director: Tim Burton Summary: When Jacob discovers clues to a mystery that spans different worlds and times, he finds Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. But the mystery and danger deepen as he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers. I was a Tim […]
Review: Deepwater Horizon Has Good Intentions But Stumbles
Title: Deepwater Horizon Director: Peter Berg Summary: A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history. There are some subjects that just make sense for being made into movies. The tragic events on the Gulf of Mexico that took place […]
Review: The Magnificent Seven Misses The Mark But Not By Much
Title: The Magnificent Seven Director: Antoine Fuqua Summary: Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves. The western is a genre that Hollywood keeps trying to bring back because it remembers a time when making a western would print money at the box office. However, […]
Review: Storks Fails To Deliver
Title: Storks Director: Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland Summary: Storks have moved on from delivering babies to packages. But when an order for a baby appears, the best delivery stork must scramble to fix the error by delivering the baby. The landscape of kids movies this year has been an odd one. There have been […]
Is Blair Witch Worth Your Money?
Blair Witch (2016) Directed by Adam Wingard Written by Adam Wingard & Simion Barrett Starring: Callie Hernandez, James Allen McCune, Corbin Reid, Brandon Scott, Wes Robinson, Valarie Curry Rated R Run time: 93 minutes A mix of contradicting prejudices entered the theater with me when I went to view Blair Witch. Here is a movie in […]
Review: Snowden Tries To Make The NSA Hack Into A Bourne Movie
Title: Snowden Director: Oliver Stone Screenwriter: Kieran Fitzgerald (screenplay), Oliver Stone (screenplay), Anatoly Kucherena (book), and Luke Harding (book) Principal Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans, and Nicolas Cage Summary: The NSA’s illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency’s employees, Edward Snowden, in the […]
DEMONIC #1 (of 6) – Comic Review
DEMONIC is a new series from Christopher Sebela (Hellraiser, the excellent High Crimes, Captain Marvel, more), Niko Walter (The Accelerators), and Dan Brown (Lobo, Punisher, X-men, tons of others). It’s a gritty hard-boiled style detective story that easily sheds the yoke of noire standards and proves itself to be excellent in its own right. This […]
Review: ‘Sully’ Is Oscar Bait That Fails To Deliver
Title: Sully Director: Clint Eastwood Principal Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Valerie Mahaffey, Laura Linney, and Mike O’Malley Screenwriter: Todd Komarnicki (screenplay), Chesley Sullenberger (based on the book “Highest Duty” by) (as Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger), and Jeffrey Zaslow (based on the book “Highest Duty” by) Summary: The story of Chesley Sullenberger, who became a hero […]
RUMBLE #10-13 – Comic Review
What?! More RUMBLE happened and I didn’t even know. How can this be possible? This is a recap of RUMBLE #10-#13 which I missed during my sojourn into some sort of space-time vortex. Does the series retain the greatness of the previous run? Should you take the time catch up the way I did? Read on to […]
Klaus #6 and #7 (of 7) – Comic Review
The return of Klaus. THE FINALE OF KLAUS. The end of the series (for now). Is it triumphant or does it fall flat? Read on to find out. See my review of previous issue of Klaus here (includes links to reviews of all other issues). Title: Klaus #6/#7 Writer: Grant Morrison Artist: Dan Mora Cover […]
Review: Sausage Party Is Pixar On Bath Salts
Title: Sausage Party Director: Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon Screenwriter: Kyle Hunter(screenplay), Ariel Shaffir(screenplay), Seth Rogen (screenplay and story by), Evan Goldberg(screenplay and story by), and Jonah Hill (story by) Principal Cast: Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Edward Norton, Danny McBride, and Selma Hayek Summary: A sausage strives to discover the truth about his […]
Review: Pete’s Dragon Is A Quiet And Heartwarming Family Movie
Title: Pete’s Dragon Director: David Lowery Screenplay: David Lowery and Toby Halbrooks Principal Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Oona Laurence, and Wes Bentley Summary: The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliot, who just so happens to be a dragon. I went into Pete’s Dragon with a […]
Review: Kubo And The Two Strings Is Heartwarming, Heartbreaking And Beautiful
Title: Kubo and the Two Strings Director: Travis Knight Screenwriter: Marc Haimes (screenplay and story by), Chris Butler (screenplay), and Shannon Tindle (story by) Principal Cast: Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes, George Takei, and Matthew McConaughey Summary: A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armor worn by his late father […]
Review: War Dogs Is Disjointed And Not Funny
Title: War Dogs Director: Todd Phillips Screenplay: Stephen Chin (screenplay), Todd Phillips (screenplay), Jason Smilovic (screenplay), and Guy Lawson (based on the Rolling Stone article “Arms and the Dudes”) Principal Cast: Miles Teller, Jonah Hill, Bradley Cooper, and Ana de Armas Summary: Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim […]
