Category: Movie Reviews

REVIEW: Chappaquiddick (2018)

virginiakublawi | Apr 8, 2018 | 0

“This isn’t about opportunity; it’s about integrity.” Ted Kennedy, younger brother of Jack and Bobby, was known as the Lion of the Senate. He famously championed bills for women’s rights, education, and the impoverished, and was the potential candidate Richard Nixon feared the most with re...

REVIEW: Hercules (1997)

virginiakublawi | Apr 7, 2018 | 0

“People always do crazy things…when they’re in love.” The 1990’s were a turbulent time at Walt Disney Animation Studio. 1989’s The Little Mermaid had laid the groundwork for what animation historians now call the Disney Renaissance. Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King wer...

REVIEW: A Quiet Place (2018)

mikecalkins | Apr 6, 2018 | 0

A Quiet Place, starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, follows the Abbott family as they survive in the aftermath of an event that leaves the world in ruins and dangerous monsters running around. As the creatures are attracted to sound, the Abbotts have learned to live making as little noise as po...

REVIEW: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

mikecalkins | Mar 28, 2018 | 0

Pacific Rim: Uprising is the sequel to the 2013 film, and is directed by Steven S. DeKnight, starring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, and Cailee Spaeny. The story of Uprising takes place a decade after the first film. The Kaiju portals are closed and the world is moving towards unmanned Jaegers for def...

REVIEW: A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Geeks + Gamers | Mar 9, 2018 | 0

Remember that moment in Wonder Woman where, as she’s facing down Ares with fire blazing around her, she confidently proclaims to him and the world, “I believe in love,” and instead of coming off as cheesy or phony, it just works? That’s because the filmmakers believe that sentiment whole...

REVIEW: Accident Man (2018)

mikecalkins | Feb 14, 2018 | 0

Comic book adaptation Accident Man is the story of Mike Fallon, an assassin who specializes in making his hits look like an accident. He likes his job, but when someone he cares for is taken from him, he begins to suspect the other assassins in his firm may be behind it. This takes him down …...