"Wicked Twists and Not Enough Good Additions"
Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)
Entertainment...
Predictable sports movies are fun; Cinderella sports movies accurate down to exact shots, blocks, and body checks are few. Director Gavin O’Connor casted hockey players who could act in the reenactment of a ragtag bunch of college hockey players facing off against - [/and defeating] - the juggernaut Soviet Red Army hockey team in the Lake Placid 1980 Olympics. The attention to recreating game details...
You’re acutely aware of the doubled runtime in the genial first chapter, “Wicked: Part One,” which has the same number of songs as Act 1 of composer Stephen Schwartz’s show, but an extra 60 minutes...
"Great Art Direction, Not So Great Execution"
Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.
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Turn off your brain, suspend reality, and enjoy this mindless, cliché nugget. Just as Hallmark Channel is the ‘go to’ for women who want to escape and put their brains in low idle, Torque is a most suitable male equivalent. That said, you will be hard pressed to find any women who will endure the mindless predictable bravado, misunderstood and ‘on the lam’ Ford (played by Martin Henderson),...
Kieran Culkin’s character in “A Real Pain” can light up a room.
Just ask his cousin David, played by writer/director Jesse Eisenberg. That light exposes a tortured soul, one who spikes the road...
When the troublesome Herdman kids cause a ruckus in church, during the Christmas pageant’s rehearsals, the play’s new director and young Grace’s mother, Beth, laments just briefly when all hope...
"Don’t Be Naughty"
Ghost Cat Anzu ***
The predictability of so much American feature animation certainly gets a bracing counterpoint in this anime adventure that feels both vaguely familiar and somehow also its own...
Christmas classics, from “Elf” to “Christmas Vacation,” have something special in common.
Set aside the laughs, comic set pieces and Cousin Eddie. They have a strong, beating heart behind the...
President Donald Trump announced last night that Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy will be teaming up to form the Department of Government Efficiency to protect Americans from insane government spending,...
One might assume that if a large corporation is going to put a website on a doll, they would have at least one person check to make sure it’s the correct one. But for some reason, Mattel blew it...
Official Figures Before and After WWII, Part I
E. MICHAEL JONES, THE HOLOCAUST NARRATIVE, (SOUTH BEND, IN: FIDELITY PRESS, 2023),
HARDCOVER, ISBN: 978-0-929891-31-6, 608 PAGES
I can safely say that...
Older stars lose their youthful veneer but often gain something special in the process.
Examples? Kevin Costner, Jean Smart and Pierce Brosnan have only gotten better with age. Add Hugh Grant to that...
"Breathtaking Documentary About an Old Tradition"
Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
It’s an injustice that duds like “Joker: Folie a Deux” and “Megalopolis” played on thousands of screens around the country while Clint Eastwood’s engrossing new film about justice, “Juror...
Believe it or not, I was one of the first people to defend the 2018 Venom film against the narrative that it was a horrible comic book movie. I was correct that the first Venom was not bottom-of-the-barrel...
Donn is a 12-year-old boy in 1939 with a love of the outdoors, a passion for adventure, and a strong desire to spend time with his often-absent dad. Donn is also a boy with a stubborn streak. Thus, when...
"Excessively Marred by Pagan Elements"
"Trust God and His Justice"
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