Movies get ripped off every day. The Magnificent Seven ripped off The Seven Samurai, Critters stole from Gremlins, King Solomon’s Mines shamelessly copycatted Raiders of the Lost Ark, and now this movie that blatantly steals from the quintessential time-looping movie of all time, Groundhog Day, adding a sprinkling of Scream as well. * Bayfield College,…
International martial arts superstar Jackie Chan goes against James Bond #5 in a terrorist-based, plot-twisty story where Chan plays just a secondary character. Not exactly the Jackie Chan movie you’d expect, but a real gritty espionage thriller instead. Based on the 1992 novel, The Chinaman, by Stephen Leather, Jackie Chan is Ngoc Minh Quan, a…
Tom Cruise is back and this time NOT as some ruthless ex-military guy or a top-secret CIA agent or even as a (God help us) newly-made mummy! No, this time around he’s a family man with a drop-dead gorgeous wife, some nice kids, and pretty sweet job. Oh, the job? Running guns for the CIA…
The long awaited sequel has finally arrived, courtesy of visionary director Denis Villeneuve, who gave us the very strange Arrival in 2016. Aided with obnoxiously loud and roaring throoooooommmming bassoon and horn sounds, startling graphics, and Harrison Ford back as Deckard, your senses get a full work-out. * * Yup, thirty years have passed and…
As a teenager, I saw the whole televised match of Riggs vs King and thought is was all very silly, not understanding the subtle nuances that were being played out in the background between the world’s #1 tennis pro, Billie Jean King, and that crazy hustler and gambler, Bobby Riggs. 44 years later, I finally…
First there was the hilarious The Lego Movie, followed by the equally hysterical, The Lego Batman Movie. Now, attempting the trifecta of comedy gold, is this CGI Lego adventure set in the mythical world of Ninjago, a Lego based toy line and video game. Will it score or do an epic fail? * We open…
The one thing about sequels is… sometimes is best to leave well enough alone. Director/writer Matthew Vaughn, who directed and co-wrote (along with Jane Goldman) the 2014 smash hit, Kingsman: The Secret Service, decided to up their violence quotient, while pretty much recycling their original plot a second time. So much for originality, huh? *…
