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Review of “iZombie” (seasons 1 & 2)
* * * * A Rose McIver), an overachieving medical resident, becomes a zombie and takes a job as an assistant medical examiner. She...
Jan 21, 20181 min read
Review of “Batman Begins” (rewatch)
* * * B Batman Begins retells the Batman origin story. When the man who killed Bruce Wayne’s parents is released from prison, Bruce...
Jan 20, 20181 min read
Women Dominate the Box Office, but not Award Shows
Female trouble: how can the Oscars fix the scandal of all-male director lists? My suggestion: by rewarding the films that people actually...
Jan 15, 20184 min read
Review of “Equals” (spoilers)
* * C Nicholas “R” Hoult). After a future calamity, the remnant of humanity live in a society where all emotions are chemically...
Jan 9, 20181 min read
Review of “Riddick”
* * * B In the second act, mercenaries arrive, hoping to collect the bounty on Riddick. He begins a cat and mouse game with them, which...
Jan 7, 20181 min read
Review of “The Defenders”
* * * B Iron Fist. The event that brings the four heroes together is the fact that the leader of the Hand (Sigourney “Ripley” Weaver) has...
Jan 7, 20181 min read
Worst Movies/Series I Watched in 2017
Cinderella (2014) This is truly an awful film. I ran across it by accident. It may deserve to be lower on the list, but it wasn’t...
Dec 30, 20171 min read
Best Movies/Series of 2017
Justice League This much maligned film was still pretty good, despite its flaws. If you haven’t seen it, its worth a watch. Spider-Man...
Dec 29, 20172 min read
Review of “Luke Cage” (season 1)
* * C Mahershala Ali) is an excellent villain. The story is straight out of a Louis L’Amour western, with Luke using his powers instead...
Dec 27, 20171 min read
Review of “Spider-Man: Homecoming”
* * * B Tom Holland) is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and is working with Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.). The film starts...
Dec 26, 20171 min read
Which 2018 Movies will be Worth Seeing?
list of films to be released in 2018. I’m going to comment on the ones that look interesting, much as I did in September, but this time,...
Dec 24, 20173 min read
Review of “Bright” (mild spoilers)
* * C Joel Edgerton). They become involved in a plot to resurrect “The Dark Lord”, a mysterious tyrant from the first millennium who is...
Dec 23, 20171 min read
Comparing Cinemascore, Rotten Tomatoes, and Box Office
The first obvious anomaly is the Rotten Tomatoes audience score for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Why is it so low? Actual audiences gave the...
Dec 23, 20171 min read
Review of “Jessica Jones” (season 1)
* * C Krysten Ritter did a good job with the title character, and her physical acting was believable. Her love interest, Luke Cage (Mike...
Dec 23, 20171 min read
Review of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” (mild spoilers)
* * * * A Daisy Ridley) and her conflict with Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), gives Finn (John Boyega) a subplot that was for me the weakest of...
Dec 18, 20171 min read
Review of “Stranger Things” (season 2)
* * * B Stranger Things, the excellent NetFlix series, is back for another season. This time around, there are a few new cast members,...
Dec 17, 20171 min read
Review of “Daredevil” (seasons 1 & 2)
* * * B Charlie Cox). Matt is blind, but has a unique gift that allows his remaining senses to give him perception that is in many ways...
Dec 9, 20172 min read
Review of “Moana”
* D Auli’i Cravalho playing the title roll, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson voicing Maui, the Polynesian Loki. Temuera “Jango” Morrison...
Dec 5, 20171 min read
Review of “American Assassin”
* D Dylan O’Brien) is caught up in an Islamic terror attack, and his fiancee is killed in front of his eyes. He then trains and joins...
Dec 5, 20171 min read
Review of “Blade Runner 2049” (spoilers)
* * C K (Ryan Gosling) is a Blade Runner (rogue replicant hunter) who is himself a replicant. He has a girlfriend, Joi (Ana de Armas) who...
Dec 4, 20171 min read
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