Movie Review: ‘The Zookeepers Wife’ Starring Jessica Chastain
It’s a powerful story, no doubt but one that feels squeezed into the 2-hour movie format.
Movie Review: ‘Kong: Skull Island’
The fights between Kong and the lizard-like creatures are every kids dream.
Review: Stand-Ups Tell Their Stories in ‘Dying Laughing’
You truly have to love the actual craft of comedy to endure what they’ve gone through.
Movie Review: ‘T2: Trainspotting’
Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, and Robert Carlyle are back as the Scottish anti-heroes.
Movie Review: ‘The Founder’ Starring Michael Keaton
Keaton gives a magnetic, wonderfully charismatic performance, and perhaps that’s part of the problem
Movie Review: Ben Affleck’s ‘Live By Night’
The film is entertaining enough but given Affleck’s former directing success, we unfortunately (and perhaps mistakenly) expect more.
Movie Review: ‘Fences’ Starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis
Directed with confidence by Washington, FENCES is a pure joy to watch with two dynamite actors in the prime of their careers.
Review: ‘Collateral Beauty’ Starring Will Smith, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Edward Norton and Michael Peña
There’s sadness and plenty of humor and but the movie tries so hard to be uplifting and deep, that it just gets in the way of itself.
Movie Review: Damien Chazelle’s ‘La La Land’ Starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling
The movie is likeable and funny, yet extremely frustrating. I just wish the stars had a high-belt or two in their pockets.
Movie Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Manchester by the Sea’ Starring Casey Affleck
The film is a beautifully sad story about life, loss and family that’s easily one of the best movies of the year.
Movie Review: Robert Zemeckis’ ‘Allied’ Starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard
The film is a nice escape to the films of Hollywood yesteryear.
Movie Review: ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’
Director David Yates sets up an ending that will leave you wishing part 2 were right around the corner.
Movie Review: ‘Nocturnal Animals’ Starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon
Gyllenhaal and Shannon are outstanding, Shannon in particular. This is one of those films that you’ll think about long after the lights come back on.
Movie Review: ‘Loving’ Starring Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga
It’s a sad, frustrating and inspirational film that puts you right in the mindset of what this couple was feeling and thinking.
Movie Review: ‘Pushing Dead’ Starring James Roday
The perfectly cast Pushing Dead is a warm, gentle and meandering story about an HIV-positive writer named Dan (James Roday) and the friends that surround him.
Review: ‘The Lion’ at The Old Globe
Scheuer brings something unusual for his (and my) generation of entertainment, an absence of snark to this emotional material.
Review: ‘Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four’
The whole film is a bit inside baseball. It’s interesting as a comic book and Marvel film fan. If that isn’t you, you may want to skip this.
Review: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Starring Darren Criss and Lena Hall (Touring Production)
Criss is entirely captivating from beginning to end, and delivers a truly enjoyable show which the audience in his native San Francisco thoroughly enjoyed.
Movie Review: ‘The Girl on the Train’ Starring Emily Blunt
The film is too short on character and tries way too hard for that final ‘gotcha’.